The Nano, the world’s cheapest car, made by Tata
Jaguar and Land Rover will be bought from Ford today by Tata, the Indian car manufacturing company who have a number of other commercial interests globally. Tata also own Tetleys Tea, and steel company, Corus. They will pay around one billion pounds for Jaguar and Land [...]
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BBC newsreader Suzanne Virdee (front, seated) gave trainee journalists at Spitfire House an insight into her job as a broadcast journalist. The students are studying on the NCTJ (National Council for the Training of Journalists) at the Castle Vale Campus of Sutton Coldfield College. Many journalists currently writing for local newspapers, such as [...]
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 [...]
The GMB, Unison, and the other council workers’ trades unions, have named Tuesday 26th February as the next day of strike action against the proposed pay cuts that many are facing if Birmingham Council’s plans for Single Status contracts come into effect at the beginning of April.
The first day [...]
An event to recruit foster parents is being held in the Council House Banqueting Suite, in Victoria Square, Birmingham on Thursday 21 February, between 11.30am and 2.00pm. Helen French, operations manager from the Birmingham City Council Adoption and Fostering recruitment team, said: “We are looking for people from all different walks of life to become foster [...]
Margaret Dunsford, Operations Manager for the Tenants and Residents Alliance, is to retire at the end of March. Margaret has worked for the TRA for six years.
Councillor Lynda Clinton is receiving ‘pages of names’ of people signing the petition against the closure of Castle Vale’s Citizen’s Advice Bureau, formerly based at the Sanctuary. The office closed for Christmas, and failed to re-open in the new year. The CAB maintain that there is insufficient demand in the area to justify keeping the Vale [...]
A report to the influential Neighbourhood Partnership Board which meets this Thursday will suggest that jobs and training should be the main focus for Castle Vale. The report starkly outlines the scale of the problem in Tyburn Ward, of which Castle Vale forms a major part, by drawing attention to the following statistics:
30.6% of the [...]
The tiny Tata Nano
Indian car giant Tata, the likely buyers of Jaguar from the Ford Company have unveiled their latest car, the Nano, a tiny and cheap four door car aimed at cash strapped families in India. The Nano is ten feet long, five feet wide, and has a top speed of [...]
17 week Saturday course in nail treatment
Enrolment for Sutton College courses at Spitfire House in Castle Vale High Street is on Thursday 10th January from 4p.m -7.30p.m and on Saturday 12th January from 10a.m. till 1p.m.
One of the new developments is the Saturday College, which aims to offer a range of courses for people [...]
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