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TOP Girl: Fashion With Taylor
TOP Girl: Fashion With Taylor
with
Taylor
NATIONAL PET
SHOW NEC P23
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TOP
GIRL
Jamie Huggins has been a model
pupil at Greenwood Academy.
NAT WEDDING
SHOW NEC P15
GEORGES
MARVELLOUS
MEDICINE
SPELLS FOUR
YEARS OF PAIN
Rent cuts promise
will hit whole estate,
warns housing boss
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TOUGH CHOICES
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JACK OF HEARTS
Jack
Whitehall,
star
of comedy sitcom Bad
Education, handed out
this years GCSE results
envelopes to pupils at
Greenwood Academy.
Jacks celebrity status, youthful good looks and friendly charm
made him a hit with the pupils.
There were smiles for the successful, tears from the disappointed,
and comforting support for all.
It was another media success for
Greenwood, as BBC broadcast interviews with pupils and teachers,
and live music from the schools
band Hex, to a breakfast-time audience across the nation.
Next term will see Greenwood
youngsters in a CBBC documentary
series, Our School. More national
publicity for a school growing in
confidence.
FASTEST EVER
HOUSE SALE?
2006: MP Sion Simon, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, and JMC Prinipal
Chris Grayson, at the naming ceremony for Spitfire House. At the time,
there was much optimism and goodwill, as the 4 million building was
handed over for the paltry sum of 1
COMMENT
Spitifre House has
been Castle Vales
biggest failure.
LETTERS
comments
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Testing toddlers
Dear Editor,
This School does not exist in any Dfe documents, there has been
NO application for a free school on this site nor has EBN used ANY
evidence to back up the use of this building as a free school. The
only evidence they have is for the failed Eachelhurst Road bid which
failed. To use Spitfire House as a free school EBN MUST ascertain
with NEW evidence based upon local community and need whether
or not this is a suitable site. This has not been done If this School
opens it will open illegally with no agreement from the Department
for Education.
What are our locally elected MPs and councillors doing about this
illegal school?
(Anon)
The problem is that the people of Castle Vale are powerless, this
is just the latest in a long line of events going way back. What is
required is legal representation in order to challenge those at the
highest level.
(Anon)
KAYS HISTORY
The Meaning of A1
Spitfire House in Castle Vale has become a school for disaffected pupils, following its sudden sale by BMET
I think we all know what happened looking at the type of car that
crashed emm let me think oh yeah they thought they was a bad ass
put their foot down and lost control ! Its not that hard is it. Who
wouldnt get in a car like that and be tempted to check out the speed
!!! (facebook- Donna Barron)
Wannabe boy racers, and 20 mph thats another joke, Im glad to get
some motorway driving in, driving on the estate bloody hell you can
walk faster. (facebook Kevin Woolley)
Why dont you check the cctv. Its like Colditz on there theres that
many cameras (facebook David OToole
I bet he was a drug dealer off to his next drop
(facebook Lorraine Hadley)
A new law from October will ban smoking in vehicles carrying anyone under 18yrs of age
The new law is flawed, a 17 year
old who drives and smokes will
be fined for damaging their own
health, how stupid is that?
Also if you drive and your passenger smokes who is 17 why should
you be fined for that.
It is NOT illegal to smoke under
18, it is only illegal to SELL cigarettes to people under 18.
Anon
Surely you can go without a fag on a car journey. You shouldnt be
allowed to smoke when driving full stop.
(Anon)
Fashion fashion Fashion Fashion FASHION Fashion Fashion Fashion Fashion Fashion
Trendy Mum
Size doesnt matter for
Midlands Youtubing
fashion sensation
Birminghams
John
Taylor Hospice has
teamed up with solicitors to offer discounted
will-writing
services
throughout the month
of September.
Taylor Sheldon
Tyburn Mails
award winning
fashion journalist
YouTubers are at it
again, changing the
world for the better, as
Louise Pentland (a.k.a.
SprinkleOfGlitter)
recently partnered up
with SimplyBe to launch
her very own clothing
line.
The 30 year old internet sensation
and mother from Northampton
has been flooded with messages
over the past few weeks, as young
girls have been exclaiming their
excitement over her collection.
The designs are very true to Louises personal style, as she is very
known for her love of bright colours and floral patterns.
Her collection consists of an array
of sophisticated dresses, which
tend to tie in at the waist and vary
in necklines, with a few glam knee
length skirts and casual tops. The
nine piece collection features a
mix of casual and dress up pieces,
meaning that theres something
for every occasion.
The sizes start from a 12 up to
32, with prices ranging from 16
- 60.
CUTPRICE
WILLS
FREE!
We particularly need:
Kingsbury
boss pleased
with GCSEs
shelter.org.uk
Registered charity in England and Wales (263710) and in Scotland (SC002327). RH6980
We have two exciting new Family Support Groups open for families with pre-school children who are
being supported by Home-Start.
Above, one of Kingsbury Schools star pupils, Ayesha Mulla, pictured at her Prom, after
the GCSE exams. Ayesha earned 6 grade As and an A star.
Below, Headteacher Mark Rhatigan with top pupils on results day
The groups are FREE of charge and are held at the following venues
St Cuthberts Church Centre, Castle Vale
5534514747463WITH
PRE SC
HOOL CHILDREN
AS BUDGET CUTS BITE, A HOUSING ASSOCIATION ASKS ALL CASTLE VALE RESIDENTS:
TOUGH CHOICES
Consultation on
your Services
by Peter Richmond
Chief Executive CVCHA
Best of British
Asian
music
The best of British Asian music
Five more
years, please
Driver offensive
to hospital staff
PHOTOGRAPH
Tyburn Mails
music journalist
One-man Rat
Pack show
Police
Powers
Police
have
promised an
increased
patrol in the
Castle
Vale
area following burglaries
on the estate
in August.
Two of the burglaries occurred
in the Park Temp Sgnt Neil Powers
Lane area. Castle
Vales new temporary sergeant Neil
Powers said that the public should
see an increase in the number of
officers on patrol in the area.
Sergeant Powers said that the rise
in burglaries was very unusual for
the area.
No burglaries were reported to the
police in the Castle Vale area during
the month of July.
We need to
pedal faster
on recycling
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UNIVERSAL CREDIT
CVCHA Operational
Board says welcome
to a new member
So if you are
A CVCHA tenant and
You have recently claimed Universal
Credit
You are due to claim Universal Credit
Please get in touch with us by calling
0121 748 8100, dropping into the High
Street office or emailing us at contactus@cvcha.org.uk.
We will do our best to make life that
little bit easier for you by providing
you with help, advice and support.
You can also find information online at
www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk
demonstrating the obvious passion she has for tenants and the
Castle Vale community.
I am sure she will serve the interests of the whole community
really well and hold CVCHA to account for our services.
In addition to Fern joining as a
new Operational Board member
CVCHA are pleased to announce
that Judith Izenstain was appointed as a tenant member.
Judith has been a Board Member
since 2009 and as a CVCHA tenant will continue to bring her experience and knowledge to help oversee the activity of CVCHA during a
final three-year term.
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Young Leaders
Programme
the tools for them to take leadership roles in the local community.
The project was delivered over 5
days and 8 young people completed the course which covered
leadership styles, roles and responsibilities of a volunteer, introduction to safeguarding, team
building, problem solving and a
project planning and evaluation
session which saw the group plan
and deliver youth club sessions at
the centre that had to meet various learning objectives taken from
the Every Child Matters Guidelines.
These sessions included an alcohol
awareness session, a cooking class
and a world records session where
the group attempted various world
records including the worlds tallest shaving foam wig., although
Social Value
Activity Grants
We received a number of
applications for our activity grants which are to help
residents from Castle Vale
either set up new projects
or get involved in new activities.
The aim of the grant is to provide
opportunities for one off activities
to take place that are organised by
residents, for residents of Castle
Vale. One of the conditions of the
grant is to provide a photograph or
selfie and we have a great example below:
Hi Becki
I have always held an interest in
photography from my first Kodak
126 Instamatic camera.
Last year I had the opportunity
to attend a photographic section
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COMMUNITY WARDEN
SPORTS 2015
were a number of Sport sessions being held in Centre Park where young
people were encouraged to come
and join in the fun, with the sessions
being provided for free! During the
summer break there were over 150
young people who joined in the fun.
The great British weather this year
was in true form; however this did
not deter the young people in attending and joining in the fun. Even
though two sessions were held at the
Your garden is
bloomin marvellous
On a sunny Friday in July 3 keen eyed
judges from CVCHA visited various gardens across the estate admiring the
beautiful displays residents had created
for the summer round of this years infamous gardening competition.
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KNOWLEDGE
IS POWER
Sanctuary Summer Activities 2015
Encouraging
young
people to learn can
sometimes be an uphill
struggle, a task made
even harder by the
length of the summer
holidays.
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How should
Birmingham
be split up?
The government
has
published
new guidelines
for gypsies and
travellers sites.
Between 2000 and 2009
there was a four-fold increase in the numbers
of caravans on unauthorised sites creating
tensions between travellers and the settled
populations.
The new guidelines insist that councils provide
more sites for travellers.
as travellers.
When the Council applied to evict them after
almost 20 years of site
occupation, the travellers won a case under
the Human Rights Act
protecting their right to
continue to live in their
homes.
Last August (2014) a
group of European travellers occupied a car
park next to the Drome
cafe on Kingsbury Road
for eight days.
The travellers left piles
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New base
for choir
From Campion
to campus for
top students
High-flying
students
at St Edmund Campion
School will be packing
their bags and preparing
for university courses.
Topcliffe Schools mainstream classroom teachers and management team on their pre-term training day
gress in the seven years since he
first arrived.
The move to replace teaching assistants with more teachers has
been controversial, and has not
been a smooth ride.
Several of the teaching assistants
have taken voluntary redundancy;
others are still waiting for a settlement. There have been problems
with unions, but Ian is hopeful
that this will all be settled by January.
Ian describes the new system as
radical. It increases the number
of qualified specialist teachers in
the classroom, and cuts down the
number of teaching assistants at
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Smoking
ban for
vehicles
carrying
under 18s
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Money for
rubbish
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Your councillors, campaigners and candidates
No man is good enough to govern another man without that others consent. (Abraham Lincoln)
One councillor
per community
by Clifton Welch
Conservative campaigner
Meet the Tyburn Neighbourhood Police Team and enjoy a free cup of
tea or coffee and an informal chat at Erdington Hall Childrens Centre, Ryland Rd B24 8JJ from1pm-3pm on Monday 29th September.
Sergeant Neil Powers and his team will be pleased to talk to you
about any local concerns
Councils need a
Living Wage
Councillor Mick Brown
Tyburn Ward Labour
George Osbornes budget proposals to increase the minimum wage over the next five
years to ensure a national living wage and to introduce a 4
year 1 % per annum rent cut
for council properties have
received many positive comments in recent weeks.
Yet it is vital that the implications
of these proposals are fully considered by the government as
part of the wider debate on council funding. For example a recent
Chester Rd 24-hour
McDonalds stopped
by Robert Alden
already more than 7.20ph, introducing pay at the 2016 rate would
cost councils in total 6 billion
in 2016. While many councils support such proposals, the overall
cost of such changes need to be
taken into account when council
funding levels are set in the future.
Local authorities such as Birmingham have already made 20 billion in savings since the Tories and
their coalition partners returned
to power in 2010. We are likely to
face further reductions in grants
as well as increased spending
pressures in the years up to 2020,
as we continue to try to provide
the core services such as caring
for the elderly, weekly refuse collections etc., that are both key to
a civilised society as well as being
services the people of Birmingham
deserve.
As readers of my last article will
hours a day.
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Tailgating gets up
drivers
backsides
but theres one thing missing from this list..
..
Its the number one annoyance for West Midlands drivers, according
to details published by the
Co-op insurance company.
Perhaps the Co-op researchers
havent travelled around the Birmingham area in the past 18 months.
If they had, they would realise that
there is one annoyance missing from
the list: Being stuck in a
traffic jam.
Birmingham has made an art form of
creating roadworks that clog up traffic
on major routes.
The disruption on the Chester Road is
now 15 months old.
It started in June 2014, and has disrupted local traffic and residents ever
since.
Spitfire Island is the largest component of the works, with a scheduled
completion date of December 2015,
says the latest monthly newsletter
from the City Council and Dawnus.
The Tyburn Island should be completed in October.
Traffic lights for the Bagot Island are
also due by October.
Annoyance
% of
drivers
affected
tailgating
66
not indicating
61
59
55
45
45
44
late braking
43
10
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WHEAT A WASTE
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to be entered into
the free draw
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Saturday
football
looks bleak
in Vale
IN A RICH WORLD
WHERE MONEY
TALKS, VILLA CAN
ONLY WHISPER
The average salary of Aston
Villas Premier League players
is 1,810,385 per year.
That works out at 34,815 per
week. Villa are 80th in the league
of top paying sports teams.
A local entertainer, busker and magician is sponsoring a young football team this season. Mad Dominic is well
known to hundreds of youngsters in the area for his crazy kids party performances. Now the former busker
is sponsoring the Castle Vale Stars Under 11 team. Dominic has helped buy an away kit for the youngsters.
The young team are managed by Colin Stokes and coached by Will Criddle also have a sponsor for their home
kit:: CD Heating. Photo: Laura Stokes
Four goals
for Paget
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