You may have been reading recently about the spate of crime in Pheasey and especially car thefts. Just locally to me we have seen one on Hillingford, Collingwood and Tyndale. Same modus operandi, same result. There has been a local group set up for this – LINK on facebook and is full of interesting debate.…

The boundary review concluded today and we are in the seat of Walsall and Oscott as below This includes the following wards So from the old Walsall South Wards we have lost Darlaston and Bentley, Darlaston South and Pleck and gained Blakenhall, Birchills and Oscott from Birmingham. First lets state these plans were based on…

Shocking news came in this afternoon whilst at work on the Birmingham Live App of a dreadful incident on Morteon Avenue by the hairdressers. The full details on Birmingham Live Website HERE I just popped down and that part of the road is sealed off with forensics and others around. Picture quality not great as…

Thanks to Ashley Preece of Birmingham Live for allowing me to use this picture. This is crash not eh corner of Collingwood and Tyndal and this is supposed to be a 20MPH zone. You can say he might have had brake failure but stand on the corner and see how many people speed down here.…

I have just received notification of these from the excellent WMNOW alert system – HERE  These alerts come from he police and it would astounding if these were not linked in someway and on demand for Audi’s ? Take the police advice and secure your house and keys especially if you have cars like Audi’s,…

Great news that Aldi has been rejected planning permission for their plans at the Old Horns. This from fiends at Birmingham LIVE – LINK  The planning inspector has rejected it based not he damage to the trees on site. However I am concerned they passed it on the traffic and pollution grounds. Stand there on…

For the last 30 mins we have all heard a helicopter over Pheasey and I went out to look and saw this. What appears to be armed police had pulled over a car. Please note that this is from my dash cam.   EDIT 08/05/18 19:00 Birmingham Live printed this story about the incident and…

So the voting is over and the count complete and earlier this morning Pheasey was declared as follows So a tory hold. The analysis here is quite simple, Lab vote remained static biut Tories gained from the UKIP collapse and basically saw a straight swap over. Across Walsall we saw tory gains based on the…

I have been very quiet on here and for that I can only apologise. The demise of the Great Barr Observer is a loss to the estate and therefore we are left with fewer news. You may have seen as well it appears Aldi may well get the planning permission next to Asda which will…

So after a quiet period two interesting pieces of news has appeared. The first is that the land owners – Great Barr Lakes submitted a planning application and got it approved for works to the Lake. The full link to this application is HERE and this is work I mentioned quite a while back that had…