One great thing of working from home is that I can attend events like this. Pheasey Park Farm school choir sung at Asda this lunch time and were bloody fantastic. Here is the video of ‘Let it Go’ from Frozen of course.

I have never hidden my political preferences and I hope you would understand this is true of my main posts on this blog. So to update the many readers of this blog I feel it is important to share the following with you that I have been selected as the local Labour Party Candidate for…

For some reason in this country we have decided to copy the Black Friday concept from the US. Of course over there it is linked to Thanksgiving, not something we celebrate. However it is here and started last year and it was chaos at the Old Horns island with people trying to get to ASDA…

I have received the Conservatives leaflet today which of course mentions the Library situation. I will keep my own personal view of their tactics from this post but lets say they are playing deeply cynical politics over it. I do support fully the retaining of the services at the library wherever possible and remembering the…

HT – Brownhills Bob As some of you may know I am a very keen cyclist. I train 4/5 times a week, rode London to Paris and plan to ride the Alps next June. Cyclists have as much right to the road as does any road user (I do drive a car as well!!). Well…

Apologies due to the lack of updates but I have had a few issues to sort out. On the Library let me make it clear regardless of my party affiliation I support the continuation of the Library on Pheasey. This is 100% clear I hope and I will be submitting my thoughts to the consultation…

As you may be aware the Council announced on Tuesday what the scale of the cuts will be for the whole council – LINK Inevitably the most eye catching of the proposals are – Closure of 8 Libraries including Pheasey – Reduction of waste collection – Possible closure of 12 Children Centres, no names given…

Paul Edwards has posted these photo’s on the following FB pages about Maggies He has given me permission to repost them here, thanks Paul. It does show to me that all is not lost there and that actually with the right plans this can be an excellent community asset. Up to others to decide if…

West Midlands Police have issued a plea for any information on Abbie who went missing from Horseshoe Crescent last night. FULL DETAILS IN THIS LINK She was last seen walking to Sutton Park and as she has autism obviously she is vulnerable to any approaches from strangers. If you have any information please call WM…

Well it has been quiet over the past few months on this.  The plans were to be discussed at the planning committee in May but this was pulled due to further work and little heard since. The Beacon Action Group have had few updates except THIS ONE saying the plans had not been withdrawn contrary…