May 8, 2008

Good Citizen Awards for CCTV Staff

West Midlands Police have presented two Merlin Security Staff with Good Citizen Awards for their contribution to the arrest of car thieves in Castle Vale earlier this year. The thieves had stolen a car in Birmingham, and had driven into Castle Vale, where the CCTV cameras picked them up and directed local police to them.
Jenny Giryn of Merlin [...]

May 8, 2008

No Farmers Market for May; central for June?

Sallyann Rose has announced that the  Farmers’ Market, usually scheduled for the third Saturday of each month in Farnborough Road, will not take place in May, and that she intends to run the next market in a different location, possibly Centre Park, or one of the local churches. Sallyann told the Neighbourhood Partnership meeting that she thought [...]

May 8, 2008

JKS youngsters get the big stadium treatment

The Council has agreed to delay the ‘treatment’ of the Vale soccer pitch for three days to allow the unbeaten JKS Under 13 team to play their final match of the season on Sunday morning. The match was under threat because the Council had removed the goalposts from the Farnborough Road pitches, including the  the [...]