A bit of self indulgence from me 🙂 Some of you may know I am a very keen cyclist and in September I am riding 470Km from London to Paris in aid of Acorns Children’s Hospice. Being a Villa fan they are the charity of my choice since we partnered them. Everyone would agree the service…
Martin from Walsall Countryside Services has just posted this on Twitter and sounds a good idea for local people to get involved with. I will register an interest myself.  Martin @BarrBeacon Looking to set up a friends of group for the site if you’re interested email me martin.h@bbcwildlife.org.uk
Thanks to the combination of the Euro Elections and UKIP we all had an interesting night at the count. The final result for the ward was Steve Grey UKIP 1164 Ashley Lovell Labour 768 Chris Towe Conservative 1379 Therefore Chris Towe was relected as councillor for Pheasey. Congratulations to Chris for the result As to…
The official nominations are now available HERE for the local elections Those standing for Pheasey are Steven Grey – UKIP Ashley Lovell – Labour Party Candidate Christopher Towe – The Conservative Party Candidate Despite rumours of other candidates none are standing.
Between the Trees Island and the Queslett pub Island the road is an awful state and is dangerous for all road users. I have reported this to Fixmystreet – LINKÂ and to the council via their online facility. I wonder if this will get done by Election time, hmmm Also there is a notification of works…
When the 20MPH zone was mentioned and agreed I said I would send off a FOI regarding the consultation, we now have the figures. Unfortunately I have no comments from this and have asked for that. However the figures show an overwhelming backing for the plans. 2216 people responded to the survey at a return…
John Rentoul in the Independent asked for top shop names and our own Melon Cauli made the top 4. The list can be seen HERE Congratulations to Warwick and the lads !
You may have noticed the past few weeks no comments on the development plans. The reason for this has been simple. Positions were fixed and known, no one was going to be persuaded to change their mind and thus let people do their own thing. If you wanted to object then there is a democratic way…
With a massive thanks to the Walsall advertiser for this lovely piece of information – HERE We now have a great resource of OS MAPS on line HEREÂ from 1880 until 1938 and it is fascinating (at least for me) to see how we developed. The last map in 1938 only shows the following roads…
It is that time of year again ! Yes it is the time when local politco’s beg for your votes to get elected and bore the pants off residents with paper 🙂 As you know I am one of these politico’s and the nomination forms are now out for the election on the 22nd May.…
News and Views about Pheasey Park Farm 