Bogus Bag Collectors – City Council advice

bogus leaflets ?

Bogus bag collectors are breaking the law if they falsely claim to be representing a charity, according to Birmingham City Council. ( see related article). If they are not making false claims, then the Licensing Team can take no legal action against them. The advice from the Council is: if you are [...]

Vote of thanks to Ann Holtom….

Ann Holtom
“..A vote of thanks is also due to Ann Holtom of Lib Dems for organising the consultation and ballot……”
Click on this text to read the letter from Ken Plester on our Letters page.

Bogus door collectors – advice to residents from Clothes Aid charity

 
Following  Vale Mail’s article about complaints from residents who are angry at bogus leaflets asking for clothes, shoes, etc to be bagged for picking up to help people in Eastern European countries, a spokesperson from Clothes Aid has written to Vale Mail, offering his advice (below). (Michael L’s full comment is posted at the foot [...]

National No Smoking Day Diary Prize

   
Smoke Free Birmingham is awarding a prize of an ‘I-pod shuffle’ to the person who composes the best diary in their attempt to give up smoking for seven days as part of the National No Smoking Day Challenge that runs from March 10-14.
This is the 25th year of National No Smoking Day, which [...]

BBC man’s anger at police and local NHS armed assault denial

   BBC’s Michele Paduano

BBC Health Corrspondent Michele Paduano has this evening issued an angry statment to local news outlets, including Vale Mail, criticising the local health service and police for hiding the fact that a gun was used in an assault at a Shard End doctor’s surgery earlier today. This afternoon, the Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust sent out a [...]

Anger at ‘bogus’ door-to-door collectors

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A local resident who wishes to remain anonymous has complained to Vale Mail that bogus collectors are regularly posting leaflets through doors in Castle Vale asking residents to leave unwanted clothing , shoes, mobile phones and jewellery in bags outside their front door. The leaflets give no indication [...]

Fixture backlog puts pressure on JKS

  A 2-1 midweek victory for Vale JKS at Greenhill puts the youngsters into 3rd spot in division two of the Midland Combination. Cup fixtures have diverted JKS’ attention away from the league at some points in the season. The local youngsters trail Worcester Academy by just nine points, but they have six games in hand [...]

House of Lords awaits Tyrone

Tyrone Fowles
The five successful candidates at the recent 2008 Birmingham UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) elections will be together this week, for the first time since becoming Members of the UK’s Youth Parliament. One of their first jobs will be to start writing speeches they will deliver in Westminster in May – in the historic House [...]

Mosquito device at Sainsbury’s used ‘as last resort’

A mosquito device has been installed outside Sainsbury’s in Castle Vale – one of ten Sainsbury’s stores in the UK to have such a device – and is switched on to emit a high pitched noise that is designed to drive away anti-social youths from congregating outside the shop. A spokesperson for Sainsbury’s [...]

Vale Mail’s reporting ‘not of the standard we should accept and expect’ – letter

Vale Mail has received a letter from the editor of a local news website about our front page report of the ‘Friday night incidents’ in Castle Vale. Below is an extract from the letter. For the full text of the letter, go to our letters page, or click on this text.
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Hi Vale Mail
Your newspaper confirms [...]