FOA - (Foreign Office Architects) design for London 2012 Olympic Stadium
Alejandro Zaera Polo and Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects
Birmingham City Council have today announced a shortlist of seven architect companies invited to submit their designs for the proposed new central library. The project will cost £193 million. The shortlisted seven are from various countries; four of [...]
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 [...]
Vale Mail has received the following statement from Birmingham City Council regarding the calling-off of the strike action.
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Statement by the Joint Trade Unions and Birmingham City Council on the Pay and Grading Review and Industrial Action
1) Both sides commit themselves to working intensively to resolve differences by the 12th March 2008.
2) Such differences to include [...]
Council workers’ strike action for Tuesday 26th February has been called OFF. A spokesperson for GMB union told Vale Mail that the action was called off at mid-day today (Monday 25th) and that unions were already in intensive negotiations with the city council. The GMB said that they were ‘hopeful’ regarding a settlement to the [...]
Tuesday’s (26th Feb) proposed council workers’ strike action will not affect any schools in Castle Vale. Chivenor, Topcliffe, St Gerards and Pegasus will all be open to staff and pupils on Tuesday February 26th. Castle Vale Secondary School will also be open, as will Castle Vale Nursery and Children’s Centre in Yatesbury Avenue.
The Library at [...]
Vale Mail has received the following letter by email ( 21.02.0 from Melanie Mingas of the University of Central Lancashire:
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Dear Editor
The situation is a little more complicated than your article (28/01/0 implies. All councils who are now cutting and boosting wages, actually had the opportunity to prove they awarded equal pay in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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