At tonight’s meeting of the Full Council the budget for 2017 has been passed. This will mean that sadly the libraries earmarked for closure will be closed unless alternatives are found that require no council money. This is awful news but as I have said before some libraries HAD to close, the money was simply…

This report from Rob Mayor the E&S reporters sums up the whole farce that is the West Mids Mayor. Rob Mayor  @robmayor   West Mids Combined Authority have agreed a £5m budget to pay for Mayoral election in May. Includes an extra £1m for promotion & publicity. As you known in May all the people…

Great news today from Neil Elkjes at the Birmingham CC planning meeting. By a unanimous vote of 11-0 the planning application for ALDI has been rejected. It is nonsense to suggest the roads around the Old Horns can cope with another supermarket and especially has ALDI has a high turnover of cars. Even at so…

Riding home from work tonight I saw Stanhope Way was closed off and rode up to the problem. At the junction of Chantrey Crescent there was what looked like a sink hole. It certainly did not look like regular work and the hole was just perfect round really and quite deep. Our own Sink hole…

Just been announced at the Walsall council leadership press conference that after consultation the 9 libraries marked for closure will close. (thanks to Rob Mayor at Express and Star for covering it). These are Beechdale, Blakenhall,New Invention, Pelsall, Pleck. Pheasey, Rushall and South Walsall and Walsall Wood. This is desperate awful news but sadly inevitable, Note…

I have been informed of a note gone out to Meadow view and Pheasey Childrens Centre users of big changes to come. Basically as you will be aware councils forced to by central govt to have massive grant cuts and if you remember a couple of years ago Pheasey’s centre was under serious threat. However…

Yet again the Great Barr Observer is reporting more crashes not he Queslett Road – LINK This time on the same day and within metres of each other on the Old Horns island. Casualties taken to A&E, ambulances called, all resources being used and no shock. Basically the road is far too fast from the…

Today The Great Barr Observer have run the story on the new Aldi application – LINK I would urge anyone interested to make their comments and it is regardless it is not our council making the decision. The Oscott Councillors are against this and I am glad to say I totally agree. Councillor Barbara Dring,…

Well Thursday is our bin day and we have some neighbours who insist on leaving black bags. Seen this before but now I am ANGRY. Three black bin bags left behind by the bin men. Now I know this is one my neighbours but surely the Council should not leave these behind. Big push going…

I have used the brilliantly named Melon Cauli for years now. Especially on a Keto diet the quality of the fruit and veg is far better than anything you may get at Aldi, Asda etc. So it is personally very sad that Warwick is closing it at Xmas. Obviously business was not good enough and…