Entries Tagged as ‘Shops and Local Business’

May 24, 2008

Sainsbury’s Spring Bank Holiday Opening

Sainsbury’s (Castle Vale) will be open from 9a.m. till 7p.m on Spring Bank Holiday, Monday 26th May.
Sunday 25th will have normal Sunday (10a.m. -4p.m ) opening hours.

May 19, 2008

Vodka scare

Birmingham Trading Standards is warning members of the public and traders to be on the look-out for counterfeit vodka. West Midlands Police seized 120 bottles of Glens Vodka from Select & Save off-licence in Frankley Beeches Road, Northfield, after a member of the public was hospitalised after drinking a counterfeit version. These were passed to [...]

May 14, 2008

Skylark Sale agreed

The Skylark, the only remaining pub in Castle Vale, which has been on the market for the past four weeks at £350,000 has attracted a buyer. Chris Wright, Property Manager for Thwaites, has said that the Birmingham branch of Fleurets Estate Agents have found someone who has come up with an acceptable offer, though [...]

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 7, 2008

Urban Splash progressing on Cincinnati site

Rumours that Urban Splash have pulled out of the development of the Cincinnati building on Kingsbury Road are false, according to a spokesperson for Urban Splash, who said today:
“We have only fairly recently bought the buildings, and we are currently engaged in a series of meetings with architects as to the best use of [...]

May 4, 2008

Asda Bank Holiday Monday Opening Hours

CLICK HERE FOR ASDA AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY OPENING (Monday 25th August 2008)

Asda (Minworth) will be open from 7.30 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday 5th May, and will be open throughout the day and night.
CLICK HERE FOR ASDA AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY OPENING (Monday 25th August 2008)

May 4, 2008

Sainsbury’s Bank Holiday Opening Times

Click here for Sainsbury’s Bank Holiday opening Monday 25th August
Sainsbury’s (Castle Vale) will be open from 9a.m. till 7p.m on Bank Holiday Monday 5th May.
Click here for Sainsbury’s Bank Holiday opening Monday 25th August

April 17, 2008

Vale Mail printed today

5,500 copies of Vale Mail have been printed today and are ready to be delivered by our team on Friday and over the weekend to all homes, shops and offices in Castle Vale.
This is a 24 page edition, eight pages more than usual.  A two page feature - ‘politics for the confused’ -offering a guide to [...]

April 14, 2008

Farmers’ Market this Saturday

The monthly Farmers’ Market takes place this Saturday (19th April) at the Farnborough Road site, starting at 9a.m. through till 1p.m.
Fresh, locally grown and produced fruit, meat, vegetables, eggs, and more…

April 2, 2008

Act of kindness brings tears of happiness

  A Castle Vale lady who wishes to remain anonymous has told Vale Mail that she would like to record her thanks for an act of kindness to someone she never met before, and may never meet again. The local resident, a pensioner who lives in Johnson Drive, was shopping during the Easter period in Sainsbury’s, [...]