Independent district councillors are aiming to solve the public transport riddle affecting village areas.
Lack of a convenient way to travel to work and school...
A parish council has relaunched its light-hearted “battle of the Santas and planters” with a neighbouring parish after coming second last year.
Barnt Green councillors...
Pinnies at the ready! (from the left) Emma Westwood, Naomi Pauley and Janet Millward enjoy the new kitchen at Blackwell Community Hall.
The unveiling of...
Beoley parish has seen three major planning decisions made to protect the Green Belt over the past month.
In the largest, Bromsgrove District Council’s planning...
An impasse over who should manage the playing fields and facilities at Rowney Green is closer to being resolved.Trustees of the neighbouring Rowney Green...
Blackwell Club hopped into action when lockdown meant they couldn’t open up to members and guests over Easter.A group of “bunnies” toured the village...
A nano-brewery in Wythall is in the process of registering a premises licence with Bromsgrove Council to start operating commercially.
Four Chaps Brewery, on Littleshaw Lane, will be brewing a...
Hannah Genders visits a village farmer whose philosophy is to ‘give something back’ and to enhance the land.
During lockdown earlier this year, many of...
Reading about the protest over affordable homes in Hopwood and people worrying about the community getting too big too quickly – what bothers people the most: 20 new homes or a rendering plant?
To those who turn a blind eye when their dogs are walking out with them: if dog mess is left behind, your duty to your canine and to the environment is to “bag it and bin it”.
Further to the article “Balancing Act for Barnt Green”: I was horrified by the remark: “we will only know the actual story if closing down signs appear in the shop windows”.
Regarding your photo of the new sign for “Bob Hopping Street” (The Village July 2016). As a child growing up in Alvechurch in the 1950s, I distinctly remember that there was a road sign by the chip shop naming the alley from Red Lion Street to Bear Hill as “London Road”.
It is with regret that I once again have to write to you as a means of replying to an article written in the Alvechurch parish magazine Grapevine by the Rev David Martin, questioning the morality of people who, like myself, have no religious beliefs.
On behalf of the members of Alvechurch Ex-Services Association I would like to draw your readers’ attention to the exemplary manner in which the memorials to those who served, and to those who lost their lives, in the service of this country situated at Alvechurch and Rowney Green are cared for . . .
Dear Editor – I share Councillor Hotham’s frustration and despair (Take this lottery win, The Village, December 2020/January 2021). This is yet again a typical...
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