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Taylor Sheldon

Page 6THE MET

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Readers’LettersPage 4Unhappycouncillors

Farage comesto town.. withHeseltine andPaddy Page 3

Music wit

Brookly:

DRAKEPag

Kay’sHistory

Page10

JOBS: PAGE 21

Morale ‘at all timelow’ - primary school

Page 19

We have the hygiene

report on the takeaway

with a ZERO rating

Page 16

The saints ofSt Chads Page 18

The brothel keeper,

Boaty McBoatface andother weird electionsPage 9 DANDAZZLES

CASTLE VALE’S GOT TALEN

photos on pages 19, 20 and 2



A local at worth £85,000has recently been boughtfor just £25,000 underthe government’s Rightto Buy Scheme.One local housing boss says that ahouse that would sell at £110,000on the open market could be sold ata 70% discount for just £33,000It’s almost daylight robbery, with thehousing associations as victims. Theyare losing homes that they have man-aged for families for decades. But thehousing associations will get some ofthat money back. Local councils arehaving to foot the bill by selling o

their best homes on the open marketonce they become vacant.So the council’s housing stock will de-crease, along with the stock ownedby the housing associations.It’s another step in the drive to cutdown the inuence and authority oflocal councils. Schools have been tak-en o their hands as academy chains

take over. Now housing stocks are be-

ing cut so that private landlords andthe open market can take over.Shelter reckons that BirminghamCouncil will need to sell over 1,000homes per year on the open marketto make up the money that they willneed to give local housing associa-tions who lose homes as more ten-

ants exercise their right to buy.

One local housing association in Ty-burn reckons that it is currently losing12-15 homes per year as residentsbuy them on the cheap.That gure could rise to 25 homes peryear if the government is successfulin its bid to extend the Right to Buyscheme under the Housing and Plan-

ning Bill. “It’s not a good situation,” says Pio-neer boss Peter Richmond. “Government policy seems to be in-tent on getting rid of social housing.” The plan is to raise £4.5bn nationally,and almost £150 million for Birming-ham.Some councils will suer more thanothers. Shelter estimates that Bir-mingham will be the hardest hit coun-cil in the region, and will need to sell1,190 per year.

At the other end of the scale, Coven-try will need to sell just three homesper year.Shelter estimates that the Right toBuy Scheme could force the sale of23,500 council homes across thecountry in just one year.The average council in the West Mid-lands could lose 234 homes each year,raising £28.5 million across the regionto help out housing associations.The Right to Buy scheme is giving aboost for individuals who pick up abargain.But in the long term, it may create ahousing shortage in a particular areaof the market - the supported marketthat caters for the most vulnerableand least wealthy.The shrinking of the social housingsector will force more people whocannot aord to buy their own homesto rent from private landlords.

Cut-price ‘Rightto Buy’ threat to

social housing

Nigel Farage will bespeaking at a public de-

bate in Sutton Coldeldnext month.He will be one of four of the UK’sleading politicians taking part ina European Referendum Debateat Sutton Coldeld Town Hall on11th June.Former Deputy Prime Minister Mi-chael Heseltine (now Baron Hes-

eltine) will be speaking in favour ofstaying in the European Union – the YES vote.He will be supported by Paddy Ash-down (Baron Ashdown), formerleader of the Lib Dems.Nigel Farage wants Britain to leavethe European Union. He will be sup-ported by Birmingham EdgbastonLabour MP Gisela Stuart.Tickets, costing £1 will go on salefrom the Conservative Constituency

oce in Sutton Coldeld May.The Referendum, to be Thursday 23rd June. The will be: Should the United remain a member of the Union or leave the Europea Votes will be gathered at 1across the UK. The nal rbe announced on Friday 24from Manchester Town Hall

Big guns in tow

for Euro debate

....One local housing asso-

ciation in Tyburn reckons

that it is currently losing12-15 homes per year as

residents buy them on the

cheap.....

Should street buskbanned?Or do they provideless entertainmenshoppers and tourisBirmingham Council is askinlic for their views.The consultation marks a m

approach to the busking cowho were in danger of beinas unwanted pests. “There has been a rise in thand variety of busking acts Birmingham and with some in the negative impacts theyon the public, businesses dents of the city,” according council. “This is mainly around noiseterms of volume and the dperformances,” says the codocument. “In 2015, the council consublanket control for much of entertainment via a Public Stection Order, but the overesponse to the public cowas not in favour of such a “The only option we can sethe Council is to look at thcaused by some individuarather than the collective, i.dividual is acting in an anti-sner, the Council can requiremodify their behaviour so itimpact negatively upon othe

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Castle Vale Communit ‘Generations’ will be peat St Barnabas Church oday 28th May in Erdingtoof a tribute to a famous music landmark.The concert will be a tribuformer ‘Mothers’ night club ton which hosted most of thbands including the RollingBlack Sabbath, Move and FMac.The church and café will haappearances, and stalls memorabilia. The free event 10.00am til 4.0pm with the ty choir singing at 12noon anThe choir is led by local residO’ Hare

Tribute tonight club

Spare a thought for MandyMcCrohon.She joined John Willmott ashead of the English Depart-ment in 1993, and worked herway up to being boss of thewhole school.Now she is a victim of a harshand unforgiving Ofsted tyr-anny which seems to demandrégime change as often as itmoves its own goalposts.Mandy McCrohon announced herdecision this month, following theschool’s disastrous Ofsted inspection

last term.The inspection team had concludedthat the school is inadequate, and itsleaders do not have the capacity toimprove.Ofsted reported that poor stand-ards of teaching and disruptive pu-pil behaviour had contributed to theschool’s decline.The school’s benchmark GCSE resultshave fallen by 20% in the past fouryears, from 66% down to 46% lastsummer (5A*-C passes including Eng-lish and maths). John Willmott Schoolis now in special measures.Ms McCrohon will leave her post atthe end of term.She will be replaced by Tracy Peters,

who has been joint headteacher ofStockland Green School.The school is now being advisedby the Arthur Terry Learning Part-nership, an academy provider forthree secondary schools, includingColeshill, Stockland Green and Ar-thur Terry. It also includes Brookvale,Hill West, Mere Green and Slade pri-mary schools.It is almost certain that John Will-mott School will eventually becomeone of the ATLP academies.Mrs Peters said: “There is a chal-lenge ahead, but the picture is al-ready improving and we hope to beable to share more progress over thecoming months.” ATLP has recently put in a newleadership structure, and has madesome key teaching appointments.They interviewed for a new deputyheadteacher last week.Richard Gill, headteacher of ArthurTerry School, will become the ATLPorganisation’s Chief Executive Of-cer in September. “This is a new era for the school andfor the partnership and everyone isfully embracing these changes,” hesaid.

A man has been oto pay compensatisending an oensivmessage.Dale Robert Saunders aged land Road in Tyburn admitte

the text to his female victim April.He pleaded guilty to an oder the Malicious Communicwhich forbids the sending osage that is indecent or grossive for the purpose of causinor anxiety to the recipient.Magistrates ordered him to pcompensation, and to be placommunity order for 12 mon

Birmingham’s healthboss Dr Adrian Phillipssays that smokers shouldbe oered e-cigarettes

to help them quit smok -ing.He supports a 200-page report fromthe Royal College of Physicianswhich says there is very strong evi-dence that e-cigarettes are ‘muchsafer’ than smoking and aid quit-ting.The report goes onto say that withthe right checks and measures,vaping could improve the lives ofmillions of people.New laws come into place on 20thMay 2016 for the production anddistribution of ecigarettes.

I’M OFF...STEDWillmott boss Mandy calls it aday after inspection disaster

Arthur Terry group steps in to lead school into a ‘positive new era’

E’s are good

Cost of a vtext messa

Tyburn beauty: a Canada goose swims serenely past the yellow rippled reections on the canal from am-

bulances stationed near Tyburn Island. The Birmingham and Fazeley canal was an 18th century HS2 - a

controversial project aimed at speeding up travel between cities - in this case, Coventry and Birmingham.

Recent improvements to the towpath have made this a popular route for cyclists into the city centre.

Ofsted’s verdon John WillmoSchool♦The school has declined s

2013, and leaders are not g

enough to improve the schoo

♦Teaching is poor and showtle sign of improvement.♦Large numbers of pupils

signicantly underachieving

maths and science.

♦Some teachers in science h

inadequate knowledge a

their own subject.

♦Some students show little

spect for the environment

cause they drop litter at br

times and when they are mo

between lessons. Others

grati on furniture. Some cho

to ignore instructions from

when moving between lesson

♦Too many pupils do not att

lessons on time. A signican

nority walk slowly between cl

es and many stop to chat.

♦Too many pupils are und

chieving, especially the mable

♦Teaching is inadequate

♦Pupil behaviour is poor.

♦Too many lessons are dis

ed, often by girls, because s

pupils lose interest and do

consistently pay attention.

♦Governors are not doing

job of holding the school to

count.

But the school has made ch

es, and say that the evidenc

results already conrmed

gests that this year’s GCSE

sults will be some of the scho

best ever.

Pictured right: Mandy McCrohonInset: Tracy Peters

A man who is over 100 years old is due to appearat Birmingham CrownCourt next month to face29 sex oence charges.The oences are alleged to havetaken place in the 1970s. All cases involve under-age sex.Two of the alleged victims are fe-male, one is male.One of the female victims was agedbetween 4 and 9 years at the time ofsome of the alleged oences.

100+ year-old

facing underage sex charges



LETTERS

Dear Sir / MadamIt is nice to have this freenews paper.But most pages are about Castle Vale,

hardly any thing is mentionBirches Green, Erdington Pype Hayes.Would it be better if you cpaper Castle Vale News no

News. Yours faithfullyMr S YoungPype Hayes.

HiI don’t know if this will do any good,I’ve noticed the crossing signals

outside the Jaguar take fochange - at least two minutThey’ve obviously been favour cars over pedestrianI see teenagers getting othen running across threetrac because they take schange.

Someone’s going to be knockDetails by email

During the recent election I sawa leaet outlining the action tak -en by one political party regard-ing the removal of the travellersfrom Pype Hayes Park in April2016.While I do not doubt that they wereaware of the trespass; I actually saw

the travellers enter the Park on thenight of the 20th and like my fellowTyburn Cllr Mike Sharpe, I immediate-ly contacted the local Police and Cityocers requesting that action wastaken to remove the travellers.Fortunately due to the intervention ofMike and myself, speedy action was

taken to end the trespass and to therelief of local people the travellerswere removed from the Park on theevening of the 22nd.Neither Mike nor I would wish to claimcredit for things we had not done,only that local people are aware ofthe full facts of the matter.

While I will be producing a full “thankyou” leaet in the coming weeks, Iwould like to take this opportunity toquickly thank all those Tyburn resi-dents who voted for me in the elec-tion earlier this month. Alongside my fellow Councillors MikeSharpe and Lynda Clinton, I am de-

termined to show you that your con-dence was justied, as together wecontinue to move forward in repre-senting the needs and aspirations ofall the residents of our ward.Councillor Mick Brown

Tyburn beauty: A lone gure reads quietly on

tranquil afternoon in the daodil and daisy adorne

rell Park, Pype Hayes. Above: the glorious May bl

som above the park entrance in Tyburn Road

Falseclaims

What about life

beyond Vale?

Trac signaltimings need tobe changed

Dear EditorNow the elections are over, Iwish to thank everyone whovoted for me on May 5th andto all those who have contin-

ued to support their LiberalDemocrat candidates acrossBirmingham.Liberal Democrat councillors andcampaigners are committed to deal-ing with community issues all year

round, not just at election time, andwe will continue to work as hard asever to improve the quality of life forlocal residents.Normally after an election, I wouldalso wish to thank my fellow candi-dates for a hard but fair contest. Un-fortunately this time I was the subjectof a personal attack by the Conserva-tives who accused me of not giving100% to Tyburn Ward. I want tothank those residents who contacted

me in response to this attack.I have never been anything otherthan fully committed to being astrong voice for Tyburn Ward againstthe out of touch and incompetentLabour council and the Tory govern-ment which has done so much dam-age to our area with unfair cut afterunfair cut.Personal attacks on other party candi-dates have never been my style. I willof course criticize political failures andmy Labour and Tory opponents makeplenty of those but negative cam-paigning against individuals shouldhave no place in politics.Thank you again to all those Tyburnresidents who supported me. Ann HoltomLiberal Democrat

Stop makingpersonal insults

Dear Editor,

I would like to thankeveryone who voted andstood in the recent elec-tion for Tyburn Ward.It was a clean election and indeed wascommented as so by the candidatesat the count. It i s therefore with greatsadness that the Lib Dem candidatehas apparently taken some oence ata leaet distributed by our campaign.This leaet highlighted the achieve-

ments I have had for the local area

in recent years including campaigningagainst unwanted development onHansons Bridge and Woodlands FarmRoads, ghting a 24 hour Macdonaldson the Chester Road, planting treesin local parks, carrying out local cleanups and pushing for improvementsto our local canal network amongstmany other things. The other storyon the leaet highlighted that the LibDem candidate was not only seek-ing election in Tyburn Ward but also

seeking election for Sutton New HallWard, on the Sutton Coldeld TownCouncil.Therefore the Lib Dem candidate wasseeking to be elected in two dierentwards in two dierent local authori-ties on the exact same day.

While she may feel it is ‘dirty’ to letresidents know that one of the can-didates wanted to be elected else-where, I think residents had a right toknow if the winning candidate wouldbe solely focused on improving our lo-cal area or not. Yours SincerelyClifton WelchTyburn Ward Conservative Candidate

Public had right to know

about Lib Dem candidate

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A nursery based at GunterSchool in Pype Hayes hasbeen rated as good by Of -sted.The inspection team published theirverdict on Little Folks Day Nurseryand Out of School Clubs this week af-ter visiting the site in April. “Sta provide children with a widerange of activities and experiences,”says the report. “They take into account children’s in-terests and complement what children

learn at school. Children are condentand motivated to play, explore andcontinue their learning.” “Children behave very well. Sta aregood role models and dedicate time toreminding children of their behaviourexpectations and the club rules. Chil-dren play well together.

“They learn to respect eaadults and the nursery envirThe centre, run by Mishi has 43 children on roll, ayears.

Ofsted comments:♦ Children’s physical well-bfectively promoted.♦Sta teach children abohealthy and keeping themsThey oer children a rangetious meals.♦Sta understand how child

They help children continuon the skills they need to cotheir learning at school.♦Sta are encouraging anpositively with the childrenfectively encourage childrenpate in the routines and acthe club.

Good reporfor Little Folk



One of my favourite

events that I look for-

ward to every year to ickthrough the photos ofglammed up celebrities isthe Met Gala.The carpet has saw a mix of bothtimeless and outrageous outts strutdown it and after the beauty of lastyear’s Met Gala I was excited to see

what this year would bring with theirtheme of Manus X Machina; Fashion

in the age of technology.I think everyone was dazzled byClaire Danes’ Cinderella like dress byZac Posen which literally put her inthe spotlight.The strapless blue gown featured avery voluminous, oor length skirt –which all by itself was gorgeous tolook at.

However, what everyone wanted tosee was how the designer made thedress so that it would glow in thedark.The glow made the dress look as

though it had hundreds of starstwinkling throughout the skirt andthen had bold strikes of l ight throughthe details at the top of the dress. Another eye catcher was Blake Live-

ly’s Burberry gown which gorgeous cape which owethe carpet behind her, embean elegant oral design.The dress itself was a bfeminine, pale pink shade slit in the skirt revealed thskirt, which was slightly dathe change in texture addedglamorous focal point.But let’s talk about Taylor Sw

Out of all the celebrities herchanged the most compareyear’s Met Gala where shea very girly and chic pink goneat, loose waves in her hclassic red lip.But this year she went for vibe in a silver mini dressextravagant pair of knee h(which I absolutely adored)This ensemble matched withblonde do and vampy lip shother, edgier, side of Taylordon’t normally get to see!

Manus XMachinaFashion in the age of

technology at Met Gala

Taylor Sheldon

Tyburn Mail’s

award winning

fashion journalist



Jaguar has been giventhe go-ahead to build itsnew multi-storey car parkon the site of the formerShowcase cinema andFrankie and Benny’s res-taurant.

The ve-decked car park will eventu-ally have room for 2,761 vehicles foremployees and factory products. Thecurrent car park holds 1,122 vehicles.Premium spaces for ease of entry andexit in the new car park will be givento car sharers with three or more pas-sengers.The site will have trac lights to con-trol the ow of trac onto KingsburyRoad.Labour councillor Keith Linnecor (Os-cott ward) praised the design of thesite. Erdington Conservative Council-lor Bob Beauchamp said: “The soonerthis is there, the better the whole areawill be. It’s known to be an awkwardarea as far as trac is concerned.

Bring it on.” Mike Sharpe, who chairs the Plan-ning Committee that approved theJLR proposals this week, said: “The

people of Castle Vale and Pype Hayeswill be pleased to the hilt when thisis built.” Residents of Pype Hayesand Castle Vale have complained for

several years that JLR employeesare parking along roads on theirestates and causing congestion andaccess problems.

PLEASED TOTHE HILTJLR multi storey car park will delight residents, says Councillor

Rose-tinted glasses: blue skies, no trac congestion in either direction... yes it’s Tyburn Road, an architect’s version of the

JLR multi-storey car park in the distance Top: aerial view of multi-storey car park

Not only has KinSchool got out of measures, it even rea letter from the cotop inspector conthe news.Sir Michael Wilshaw’s letterteacher Mark Rhatigan conthe school on their achievemThe school was put in specures two-and-a-half years agbeen subject to six interim ivisits and reports.The letter says: “I hope you,and governors are celebratincess of all the eorts mad journey out of special measumay well have included somtimes.”

Kingsbury was placed in speures after failing an Ofsted in December 2013. A year later, in December 20felt that the school was still nenough progress. A new headteacher, Mark was appointed in February 2Ofsted reports in March and year noted “reasonable progConrmation that the schoout of special measures cotime of change for the schooKingsbury is to become paFairfax Multi-Academy Trustember, and is likely to haname and a new uniform twith its academy status.

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Mick Brown (Labour) won the Mayelection in Tyburn.He is one of three councillors, along with LabourSharpe and Lynda Clinton, for Tyburn ward on Bham Council until the re-organisation in 2018.UKIP’s Andrew Garcarz tied for second place witWelch (Conservative). Fewer than one on four oelectorate in the area voted. The number of votewas signicantly lower than for the 2014 electionconsiderably below the gure for last year whichcided with a general election.

RESULTS FOR TYBURN WARDMick Brown (Labour ) 1,780 votes Andrew Garcarz (UKIP) 747Clifton Welch (Conservative) 747

Ann Holtom (Lib Dem) 318Giovanni Esposito (Green) 86Marie Emma O’Connor (TUSC) 5430 papers were spoiled.Tyburn has a total electorate of 16,443The voter turnout for the ward was 22.88%3,762 votes were cast in the ward.In the local elections last year, 8,527 people voteTyburn. That day coincided with the general elecIn the Tyburn ward elections in 2014 a total of 4people voted.

Mick wins asthree out offour don’t vo

Drake is back at itagain.

After the hit that was ‘Hotline Bling’ he’s hitus with another songthat you just cannotcontrol yourself to. When I rst heard HotlineBling, I shrugged and thoughtit’s okay.Two days later, I was singingit constantly and loving all thememe videos made of Drake’sdancing.Drake didn’t let that ruin hisspirit, because he has broughtus another album in 2016 toshow he isn’t going anywhere.One dance struck me as soonas I heard it, as soon as Iheard... “Baby,...” I was danc-ing.It’s one of the rst Drake songs

that I’ve instantly loved thesecond I heard it.I hear it everywhere I go, andits currently number 1 in theOcial UK top 40 singles chart.This is Drake’s 5TH WEEK inthe singles chart.Coming from his slow, relaxedsongs like Marvin’s Room, and

Make Me Proud, we have astar.I would say if you haven’theard One Dance already, thenlisten, but it’s impossible. You’ve all heard it, and I’msure most of you love it just asmuch as I do right now.If you haven’t heard Drake’s

new album, ‘Views’ it’s cur-rently on Apple Music rightnow, check it out!Let me know what you think atthewanderingwriter.blogspot.co.ukThank you so much for read-ing.

Brookly

Taylor Tyburn Mail’s music journalist

Back witha splash

.....One Dance st r uck me as soon as I hear d it ......



Over 124,000 people voted to calla new ship Boaty McBoatface.Millions vote weekly for mediocre per-formers on Britain’s Got Talent. Butwhen it comes to voting for a publicrepresentative for the region’s police

force, almost 70% of people didn’tbother. And 30,000 of those who did get tothe ballot box in the West Midlands(12,000 from Birmingham) incorrectlyfollowed the instructions to place one,or two crosses in the right boxes.Their votes were ‘spoiled’.The voting paper was badly designed,and the chance to make two votes onone piece of paper came as a sur-prise to many. The publicity given tothe campaigns, and to the election,was miserably poor.It was as though no one was reallythat bothered.The result of this exercise in publicapathy is that Labour’s David Jamie-son has been re-elected as the pub-lic’s representative for West MidlandsPolice. He will be paid £100,000 peryear for his eorts.He does not have to appoint a deputy.But he has one, all the same. YvonneMosquito is paid £65,000 per year asPCC deputy. She also receives an al-lowance of over £16,200 for being acouncillor for Nechells, and an allow-ance of £12,500 for chairing a councilscrutiny committee. She is currentlysuspended from her PCC job for al-legedly interfering inappropriately in amurder case.Has such behaviour turned people

away from ‘democracy’? Are we a nation of cynics? Atee of MPs has been asked tthe question, in the light of vote.The public vote for the Boatface saga was rst put foWarwickshire man James HaIt was meant to be a good retort, and snub to an invparticipate in the naming omillion scientic exploring veThe name raised a smile. the National Environment Council ignored the vote, anthe new vessel after Sir Daborough, the stupidity of McBoatface brigade was lThis 15,000 ton ship will be2019 to explore polar regionIt will be named in recognitimmeasurable services of oain’s greatest contributors edge about nature, wildlife

environment.Now aged 90, Sir David’s work has educated and deligerations of television viewenot win the public vote - he But good sense prevailed,public vote was ignored.The selected entry, RRS tenborough, came in fourtthe public voting, just aboveBloody Cold Here,” “RRS Usand “RRS Boatimus Prime.”

Remember when angry rock band Rage

Against the Machine won the battle for

Christmas top spot. The campaign was

started by a facebook user in Essex.

It launched a public vote to stop Simon

Cowell’s X Factor protégé Joe McElderry

getting the No1 spot.

Rage Against the Machine’s song ‘Killing

In The Name’ contained the immortal line:

“Fxxx you, I won’t do what you tell me.”

Football mascot H’Angus the

Monkey was elected Mayor

of Hartlepool in 2002. His real

name was Stuart Drummond,

but his Saturday afternoon job

was to dress up as a monkey for

the Hartlepool FC faithful. They

urged him to stand as Mayor - he

took up the challenge, and won.

It was no uke. He won again in2005 and 2009. The rst Mayor

to be elected three times. Then

the good people of Hartlepool

decided they needed no more

Mayors.

So H’Angus hung up his ermine

robes, safe in the knowledge

that he was Hartlepool’s one and

only elected mayor.

Brothel keeper Cynthia Payne (centre) hit the headlines in the 1980s when she stood as an MP for the Payne and Pleasur e Party. She wanted to change Britain’s sex laws. She was put on trial for r unning a br othel, and entertained the cour t, and made plenty of headlines, withher evidence that included details of visits from celebrities, vicars, police ofcers and politicians who visited her pleasure par lours. She was

jailed, but her impr isonment caused outcry as the public claimed she was harmless..

Screaming Lord Such

started his career as a

pretty good rock musi-

cian. He worked withrock legends Jimmy

Page and Je Beck.

His real name was Da-

vid Edward Sutch. He

made regular headlines

as the leader of the

Monster Raving Loony

Party. He dressed in

outrageous Mad Hatter

style clothes as he

stood next to serious

politicians for photoopportunities. His

jovial exterior covered

an inwardly sad man.

He hanged himself in

1999, grief-stricken

after the death of his

mother.

The Good Knight

Sir Nos Dar fromthe Monster Raving

Loony Party stood

for election this month

(May 2016) in the

Pelsall ward of Wal-

sall. His real name is

Mark Beech. He also

stood for the MRLP in

2015, in the Aldridge/

Brownhills ward, but

he delivered 5,000

campaign leaets

in the wrong area.

One of his campaign

policies was to ban all

right turns.

A

seven-year-old

dog named Duke was

elected mayor of Cormorant, a

small town in Minnesota,USA.

The 12 residents each paid

one dollar to cast their

vote,

A clown

won an election to

get into Brazil’s congress in2010. His name was Tiririca - Por-

tugese for Grumpy. His real name

was Francisco Silva and he won over a

million more votes than the runner-up.

Grumpy told voters that he knew

nothing about politics.

He won again in 2014.

BOATYVOTERSThe joke that’s

gone too far In the 40 PCC elections across Enand Wales, Conservatives won 2015, Independent 2 and Plaid Cym33 men won; 7 women. Just one wwas from the Asian community.

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KAY’S HISTORY A monthly series of ancient facts

by local history enthusiast Kay

Hunter who lectures on his sub-

ject in Birmingham and WestBromwich. Kay also broadcasts

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Afternoon tea, becamesymbolic of English do-mesticity, decorum and ci-vility recognized through-

out the world. Originally the preserve of the ar-istocracy, afternoon tea, becamepopular in the eighteenth century asa fashionable event. Usually servedbetween two and ve pm, whichconsisted of cakes, pastries and deli-cately cut sandwiches accompaniedby tea, in silver or bone china tea ser-vices and cake stands. Women wouldchange into their nery for tea whichcould be taken either on the lawn orin the drawing room. Today, afternoon tea is still popularand served in reputable tea rooms

and establishments. Twinings have sold tea since 1706.

Everythingstops for tea(Or so it should)

English etiquette or a dieter’s nightmare?

Sergeant Neil Powers andhis neighbourhood policeteam will be setting up atemporary police desk inCastle Vale Post Oce inTangmere Square eachmonth.Sergeant Powers says that the ideais to give local residents a chance to

have a conversation with members ofthe police team.The post oce on Kingsbury Roadwill also be used as a pop-up station.Up to 30 post oces in Sandwell andten in north Birmingham will take partin the pilot scheme designed to givecustomers a chance to raise any con-cerns in a relaxed environment andget to know their community policeteam.

Neighbourhood ocers willticipating branches on a rand spend up to two hourwith visitors and passing prevention advice.The “Adopt a Post Ocecould be rolled out to all paregion.Birmingham North Chief

Mark Ward heads up the said: “We’ve analysed footfregional post oces and wing our pop-up surgeries towith the busiest periods, sucsion day. “People may have somethinmind they’d like to discusocer but don’t go out of to visit a police station or cthey don’t feel it’s signican “This isn’t about having a operation on the High Strenot designed to be a crime facility. “The aim is to reach resmight otherwise struggle twith…we’ll be passing on information like warning agtraction burglary, bogus cCourier Fraud.” Adopt a Post Oce has bcessfully introduced in othethe country, including MerseNorthern Ireland.Post Oce Security Programager, Wayne Griths, addonly does the initiative creavisibility for ocers in their lmunity it also provides reasssta and customers and isdeterrent to criminals.” The six-month pilot project ed to run until the end of Se

Pop-up

cop shop

Sergeant Neil Powers, with Wayne

Griths, Security Programme

Manager for the Post Oce

Castle Vale’s old policestation in Valencia Croft isto become the centre for anew approach to dealingwith crime and anti-socialbehaviour across Birming-

ham.The building, now known as TheGreen House, has been used for sev-eral years by Pioneer’s Estate Ser-vices team. They will continue to usethe buildling sharing it with a newlyformed Restorative Justice team.Pioneer, the parent company of Castle

Vale Housing, will host the project at Valencia Croft.It will involve police ocers and civil-ian co-ordinators, and is part-fundedby proceeds from crime via the Policeand Crime Commissioner.Restorative justice involves the victimand the oender agreeing to get to-gether to discuss the specic crime oranti-social behaviour.With the help of mediating experts,they agree a solution.Oenders are less likely to re-oendif they are dealt with by restorative justice, say the experts.The RJ system has been trialled in

various parts of the countrparts of Birmingham.It could deal with issues noise, verbal abuse, hathreatening behaviour, phylence, drug and substancelitter, rubbish, y-tipping, hacrime, vandalism and crimage.Jon Dickin Community ManaPioneer Group says “The Restorative Justice Plows victims the chance topetrators the real impact oand gives the perpetrators to understand the impact oftions and to do somethingthe harm they have caused. “Restorative Justice holds prectly accountable for theand can help victims movetheir lives.”

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What a weekend we had!On Saturday 14th May, around 100 peoplecame out in the sunshine, some arriving asearly as 7am to buy and sell items includ-ing clothing, jewellery, household equip-ment and DVDs.There was even a stand devoted to Britishclassic – the Tombola.

The car boot was held in aid of AgeingBetter, a Birmingham wide campaign look-ing to bring about positive change to thehealth and wellbeing of people over theage of 50.There were over 25 tables, each raising £5for the charity.

COMING SOON – SUNDAY 12TH JUNE Attractions, food and entertainment at Centre Park, Tangmere Drive, Castle

Vale to celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday. There will be a hog roast, tra-

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Councils now have pow-

ers to tear down point-less road signs that are aneyesore and distract driv-ers.The number of signs on our roads,more than doubled from 2.45 millionin England in 1993 to an estimated4.57 million in 2013.Now simpler rules have been broughtin to give councils the power to takedown unnecessary signs.Signs that say ‘new’ layout ahead willhave ‘remove by dates’ on the backso they are not needlessly left inplace for years.New roundabout signs should be re-

moved after three months.The government’s Transport Depart-ment has appointed Sir Alan DuncanMP to lead a task force that is lookingat removing pointless signs. “Too many signs look ugly and stopdrivers seeing only essential messag-es,” is the message from the Depart-ment of Transport. “Cutting the number and size ofsigns will help reduce unnecessaryeyesores for all road users and localresidents,” says a spokesperson.The new measures will save councils£30 million in running costs by 2020,according to the Transport Depart-ment.

Signpost JungleRoad signs should point the way,

not block the view, say road bosses

Castle Vale is a specialarea where the commu-

nity makes sure that theirvoice is heard and at-tract services to suit theirneeds.With budget cuts happening acrossmany public services, rent reductionsimpacting on services the local hous-ing association is able to provide andthe end of the Castle Vale EndowmentTrust getting closer and closer, it isgetting harder to ensure that Castle

Vale’s community needs are met.Over the past year members of the2005 Group and Neighbourhood

Partnership Board (NPB) have beendiscussing whether it is a good timeto investigate whether a CommunityCouncil would be a good idea for Cas-tle Vale. A Community Council may be a posi-tive solution as it would give residentsmore control over services, ensure

that their views are listened to, makesure that residents are consulted andget a say on matters that are really

important to them!

A steering group haset up to look at thmunity Council idmore detail.This group will be nding information about how a CCouncil is set up and whatand cons are of having a CCouncil in Castle Vale.This information will be shthe community to ensure tone gets a say in whethercommunity go ahead andthe Community Council idea

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Birmingham Lord Mayor’sBall will be held on Friday24th June in the Banquet-ing Suite of BirminghamCouncil House.Tickets for the black-tie event cost£85 per head. It includes a three-course meal and live entertainment.It’s being held on the eve of ArmedForces Day, and has a military theme.Lord Mayor elect, Cllr Carl Rice, said:

“This event is one of the highlightsof the year in Birmingham and, aswell as supporting a number of goodcauses right here in Birmingham, Ican promise the guests a wonderfulevening. “So i f you’re looking to entertain cli-ents, make new contacts from acrossthe city or simply have a great nightout, this is the perfect event.” Tickets are available now throughEventbrite

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Help save the UK’s larg-

est land beetle by re-cording your sightings.The stag beetle’s numbers aredwindling across Europe. Their big

enemies are cats, magpies and hu-mans.In parts of Britain stag beetles arealready extinct.This spring, People’s Trust for En-dangered Species (PTES) is askingthe public to record any sightingsof stag beetles by taking part intheir annual Great Stag Hunt.Stag beetles emerge from mid-May onwards, and live in gardens,parks, woodland edges and tradition-al orchards.They are prevalent throughout south-ern England and coastal areas butthere have not been many sightingsin the Midlands.PTES want to hear from people living

in areas that border the stag beetles’known range.Stag beetles can reach up to 75mm insize, which makes them second larg-est of all UK beetles after the waterbeetle, but also easy to spot!For the majority of their life cycle,stag beetles remain underground as

larvae, feeding on rotten woThey can remain as larvae foas seven years, and once futhey build a large cocoon inwhere they pupate before namorphosing into their adurecognisable, form.Last year’s Great Stag H5,796 recorded stag beetle sincluding 901 sightings in HaBeetle spotters are asked tany sightings of stag beetleswww.ptes.org/stagbeetles.Laura Bower, Conservation PTES says: “The Great Stag involved thousands of peothe last 20 years.

“Now is the right time of people to start recording of stag beetles, as they ememid-May onwards. “Gardens in particular are vetant habitats, as stag beetledecaying wood in contact wfeed on as larvae. “Volunteers can help by dead tree stumps or buildipile in their gardens to ensuis a good supply of dead woomale stag beetles to lay thei “We hope to see more v joining this year’s Great Staghelp reverse their population

A fast food takeaway hasbeen told to improve itshygiene.Birmingham food hygieneinspectors visited ChicksChicken and pizza foodtakeaway on FarnboroughRoad in the afternoon of18th January this year andgave the place the lowestpossible rating.They demanded that urgent ac-tion was taken, and that the kitchenwas given a deep clean within 48hours.The owner of the takeaway refusedto give details of the inspection re-port. Tyburn Mail has now receivedthe full details, following a freedomof information request to the citycouncil.

The report sets time limits for eachinstruction.It warned Chicks’ owner that hemust:

♦ Ensure all food handlers are trainedin food hygiene

♦ Provide a documented food safetymanagement system

♦ Monitor and record temperatures offridges, freezers, cookers and food

♦ Provide dedicated hand wash basinfor use in the kitchen

♦ Ensure that there is an adequatesupply of soap and towels for the

wash basin

♦ Provide a lobby between the kitchenand the toilet area - an extract fan isnot sucient

♦ Undertake a deep clean of the kitch-en, paying particular attention to thedicult to reach areas such as underpreparation tables, wall-oor junc-tions and hand contact surfaces.

♦Ensure food is stored in accordancewith manufacturers instructions,e.g

frozen chips in freezer, chicken nug-gets in fridge/freezer as appropriate.

♦ Ensure deliveries are put awaypromptly.

♦ Ensure adequate separation be-tween raw and ready-to-eat foods infridges.Birmingham Council issues a rating ofzero -5 for food outlets across the city. All outlets ought to reach grade 5, ac-

cording to the Council. A zero ratingrequires urgent remedial action.

Deep clean kitchenand buck up on foodhygiene standards

Inspectors not impressed by local takeaway

The manager of the CasFish Bar says that the hyging they have been given Vedat Okaner, the manager o

Street chip shop, says that thhygiene rating was reduced t1 after a second warning focording food temperatures. “The rating has nothing to dhygiene of the shop,” says Ve “This place is spotless. “In 2013 we won an awarcleanest chip shop in Britain. “We are always cleaning ttwenty-four seven.” Vedat says that he now takecordings of food temperaturready to invite inspectors topremises again.

Vedat hopes that they will high rating to the premises next visit. “We had a 5-star rating bethat was moved down to 4-we did not record food tempThe second warning movedto a 1 star.” The chip shop has not yet inspection.

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crawly, say endangered species experts

Europe loving Labour MPJack Dromey is worriedthat young people havenot registered for the

Euro referendum.18-24 year-olds are more likely tovote to stay in Europe than thoseaged over 65, says the 67 year-oldErdington MP who supports the RE-MAIN camp. “Young voters will be key to secur-ing a ‘Remain’ vote on 23rd June butaround one in four 18-24 year-oldshave still not signed up to vote,” saidMr Dromey. “And I saw rst-hand, when I debatedagainst UKIP on Europe at Birming-ham University, the overwhelmingsupport for Britain to remain in Eu-rope. Over 70% said ‘yes’. “Ensuring the 413 young registeredvoters in Erdington use their vote

next month will be vital to the out-come of this referendum and futureof our country. “EU membership is vital to youngpeople’s futures. “Nearly twice as many 18-24 yearolds back voting to Remain thanthose aged 65, but they are only halfas likely to say they will denitelyvote.” UKIP campaigner Andrew Garcarztakes a dierent view. “My overwhelming concern for ouryoungsters is that by voting for theUK to remain a member of the EU,they will be ghting for a future in aneconomy where uncontrolled EU mi-gration only serves to depress wag-es and limit opportunity,” says PypeHayes resident Mr Garcarz, who isalso chair of UKIP for the West Mid-lands. “Multinationals and corporates seekto employ low skilled migrants on lowwages with zero hours contracts. “We must do our best to inform ouryounger generation of the threat thatthe EU represents to their and ourfuture. “A vote to remain, is not a vote for theEU as it exists now, it is permissionto go wholeheartedly into full and ir-reversible integration.”

Euro YESwill rely onyoung, saysMPJack, 67

Signs are being put up thisweek around Birmingham’s

city centre roads, urgingmotorists to keep theirspeed down to 20mph.The new lower speed limit is not yetenforceable by law.Council transport boss Ann Shaw says: “We know from the rst phase of thescheme there is some uncertainty overthe law when this work starts. “In the interests of transparency andopenness, we want to be clear the newslower limits are NOT enforceable untilthe scheme is complete in the city cen-tre pilot area. “We hope motorists will use the sig-nage popping up as an early reminderto cut their speed and get into thegood habits that will make the city cen-tre an even more welcoming and invit-ing place to be.

“The move isn’t about a war on motor-ists or raising revenue. It is based onone simple statement – slower is safer.”

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It makes sense to call atrain station by the nameof the place where itsbuilt. You get o at Birmingham New Streetand you knwo where you are.But when the map-makers decided toput Erdington Station in Small Heath- just so that Birmingham could cutdown on its number of councillors -well that was going down the wrongtrack.Erdington Abbey was also going tond itself in Small Heath, too - an ab-bey in a heathen land.... not, it’s notgoing to please the Catholic congre-gation.Public outcry has caused the map-makers to change their plans andput the station and the abbey back inErdington. Small Heath is the poorer,but justic has prevailed.But those changes are not enough tomake everyone happy.Councillor Robert Alden is still fuming. “The commission’s new draft propos-als have still broken the ErdingtonParish Boundary to the North rippingout parts of Erdington history like theold Tram Terminus, the only remain-ing Erdington Coat of Arms and the

Yenton Pub,” says the boss of Bir-mingham’s Tory group. “In Pype Hayes the parish border hasbeen broken with Birches Green be-ing separated from Pype Hayes forthe rst time in history. “In Oscott Ward an area that has al-ways been in Oscott has been rippedout of the ward and put into King-standing, while the Kingstanding HighStreet, Kingstanding Royal Mail Oceand Kingstanding Tesco have beenleft in Oscott not reunited in King-standing Ward. “The community of Gravelly Hill is stillnot being recognized and in the PerryCommon area, Perry Common is stillsplit in two and requires you leavingthe ward to go between the north andsouth of the ward. “The boundary Commission had an

unprecedented level of responses,more for the North Birmingham areaalone, than they normally receive fora whole Council. “It is disappointing that they havegenerally ignored local residents re-quests for communities to be properlyrepresented. “While i t is good that they have re-stored the Erdington Abbey to Erding-ton, by refusing to reconnect the Par-

ish boundary they are leaving usersof the Church out of the ward.”Robert added “I urge residents towrite into the commission asking forthem to respect the will of local resi-

dents and make changes as asked forby the local community in the NorthBirmingham Community Togethersubmission”. A new six-week public consultationon the recommendations started on10th May and will end on 20th June2016.Over 2,000 local responses were re-ceived on the Commission’s originalrecommendations.

They caused the Commission tochange its original plans. Now, moresuggestions are being invited.The Commission’s new recommen-

dations propose that Birmingham City

Council should have 101 city coun-cillors in the future, nineteen fewerthan the current arrangements. Therecommendations also outline howthose councillors should represent41 single-member wards and 30 two-member wards across the city.The full recommendations and de-tailed interactive maps are availableon the Commission’s website at www.consultation.lgbce.org.uk and www.

lgbce.org.uk.Professor Colin Mellors, ChCommission, said: “We are ing local people to have a lorevised recommendations a

us where they support thenot, to put forward alternagestions. “The Commission will cosubmissions received duringsultation before we naliseSeptember.” The Commission’s report antive maps can be found on itat: www.lgbce.org.uk

Erdington winsback its abbey

and train stationCommission backs down after public outcry

.......And the train now arriving at Erdington Railway Station.... is in Erdington, ...... not Small Heath



A kind-hearted local busi-nessman has donatedover £800 to help out a lo-

cal church.Shailesh Parekh, who owns the Mid-land Link Autocentre and Nisa shopon Tyburn Road has helped the mem-bers of St Chad’s Church to buy kitch-en equipment for their community.He has given them the cash to buy abrand new cooker and dishwasher -worth over £850.

Linda Parker, from the Joint ChurchCommittee at Stoneyhurst Road said: “This is a wonderful gesture. He is sokind. “He has helped us raise funds before,and I asked him, jokingly, if he couldhelp us with some kitchen equipment. And look what he’s done.It’s fantastic.” The new equipment will help out withmany of the church events.Members of the church committee

provide a cooked meal each week foraround 25 senior citizens. “Playgroups, and youth organisationUrban Devotion also use the facili-ties,” said Linda, “and we hire out thecentre for events like christenings,baptisms and parties, so these newkitchen facilities will be so helpful tothe whole community. “We have a good congregation ofaround 30 people here. “Shailesh is not a member of our

church, but he has been incrediblygood to us. We are so grateful tohim.” Shailesh is a man of modesty aswellas generosity. “The money is provided via the NisaMake a Dierence Locally Fund,” heexplains. “Customers to the store pay a pennyor two extra on some items and themoney is saved up to go to good localcauses.”

Gold-heartedgarage owner

Nearly 70% of gard

the Midlands are stthe past.

Almost 64% of the region’s hers admitting their outdoor been inuenced by previous A nationwide survey of howith gardens revealed that ilands, 68% of gardens’ mainpre-date the 1990s, with 80slatted fences (42%), 60s mlawns (41%) and 50s concr(24%) featuring most promdesign hangovers from the pThe region’s homeowners hslow to adopt 21st centurdesign, with contemporarysuch as raised vegetable bemixed native hedging (10%(6%), and articial grass (3present in only one third of While almost 41% of respothe Midlands said their gard

most important feature of thonly 20% are most likely to when thinking about or ltheir garden.

Gnomman’slandGardeners ar

bit old fashion

No place for gnomes, say

of modern gardeners

Shailesh Parekh, with the helpers and

members of the Lunch Group at St

Chad’s Church Centre.

Inset: Shailesh with Linda (left) and

members of the Lunch Group committee

in the kitchen with food prepared with the

new equipment

Parents say their care happier if they wschool, according tovey published by Living Streets. Almost half of parents saidsaw an improvement in thhappiness after the walk to Just 46 per cent of primachildren walk to school com70 per cent of their parentstion, according to Living Sperts.Congestion and unsafe drivinthe school gates overwhelmter parents from getting theto walk to school. Vehicles dquickly was their greatest wit came to the school run acited overcrowding (33 per unsafe parking (37 per centsion was also a factor with 2experiencing it, either from ents or local residents.

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A “gent” can expect to paytwice as much as a “man”and “authentic” productsfetch up to 50 per centmore than “genuine” ones.Researchers at Birmingham City Uni-versity trawled more than 68,000items listed and sold on ebay to ndout how online sellers choose to de-scribe their products.The studies, which spanned morethan 15 million words, revealed pat-terns in language which signicantlychanged the price buyers could ex-

pect to pay for similar goods. Among the results it was shown that “men’s” watches sold for an averageof £30 while “gents’” went for £70,and fragrances labelled “genuine”fetched £21 but “authentic” ones setbuyers back £34.Similarly, users paid nearly threetimes as much for “on-ear” head-phones as “in-ear” headphones (£25to £71) while a watch with “resist-ance” can expect to attract nearly50 per cent more than a “resistant”watch (£85 to £59).Grammatical errors such as missingapostrophes and internet speak werealso found to have a negative impacton the price products sold for.Researchers Andrew Kehoe and Matt

Gee from Birmingham City Univer-sity’s School of English were behindthe study. For this project, product listings weredownloaded from eBay over a 70 dayperiod before being analysed using

WebCorp’s specialist tools.Research also found that antique sell-ers were the most likely to use a per-sonal connection to sell products with

words like “I”, “me” and “my”, appear-ing more frequently than in any othercategory and making up 20 per centof the most popular words used.Elsewhere used car sellers were foundto shy away from the term “second-hand” with only nine instances of thephrase found among nearly 1,000sold.Instead traditional car sales speakwas found, with phrases like “honest”, “reliable”, “clean” and “reluctant” allamong the top terms.

Ebay snobs‘Gents’ beats ‘mens’ watches, and ‘au-

thentic’ fragrances top ‘genuine’ ones

Morale at St BarnabasSchool is at an all-timelow, according to oneemployee who hascontacted Tyburn Mail.The sta have been kept in thedark about the school’s future,even though it is almost ninemonths since their headteacherwas suspended.Heather Powell has been sus-pended since the start of theacademic year in September2015, following the discovery

of nancial irregularities. Butsta and parents have not beentold whether she is ever comingback, or if the school is likely toadvertise for a new headteacherfor next year.The situation is impacting onthe children, according to themember of sta who contactedTyburn Mail. “Year 6 Sats resultsthis year will be shocking,” saidthe employee who wished to re-main anonymous.The employee gave a startling

account, claiming that youngersta at the school are not be-ing properly supported, and thatspecial needs children are suer-ing. Claire Cowlard is the currentacting headteacher, but she istrying to juggle two jobs - sheis also headteacher of St FrancisSchool in Bournville.The employee who spoke toTyburn Mail says that the lead-ership team at the school arestruggling, and that suspendedheadteacher Heather Powell wastaking time o, and nding the

job too much for her, especiallythe administration work. Theschool had been slipping beforeher suspension.Governors have refused to com-ment on the situation, while theinvestigation is stil l underway.Tyburn Mail believes that gover-nors feel they cannot comment,nor make arrangements for theheadteacher’s return or replace-ment, until the time allowed forthe headteacher’s appeal haselapsed.

Morale ‘atall-time low’School with suspendedheadteacher still in limbo

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be stick-thin to be stunning.

A poster in BirminghamCity Centre is being la-

belled as sexist by a localacademic.The huge ad features a close up ofa woman’s rear with the text: “We’regetting ready to reveal our fabulousnew rear..! (entrance)… Pert and per-fect by June.” There are four posters featuring wom-en, and one featuring a man.Birmingham City University lecturerCharlotte Barlow says: “This typeof campaign objecties and sexual-ises women, encouraging them to

be viewed a jects, and sbe tolerated “The fact model’s ‘reonly part ofthat we cainforces thewomen’s bobjects for gaze.” “Campaignsarguably pstreet haand sexuament”, addelow. “Street his a daily r

many womthis objeof womenreinforces

that this is acceptable, wbehaviour should not be and rather viewed as part ocontinuum of sexual harass ‘everyday sexism’.”

Tyburn Mail readers were quspons online. “Yaaaawwn…..go shave youwench. Sex sells….get overone unsympathetic reader. “What a bummer. I’ll bet hare a real barrel of laughs,” another.

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CastleVale’sGot

Talent2016Daniel McVey won Castle ValeTalent, and he deserved to. He sings well, and with passion, agreat stage presence. He’s been not to win in previous years. But perpays, and this time, the likeable Grepupil came out on top. Last year, her and niece won the trophy. Ste aMcVey performed in this year’s show judges retired to make their decisioMcVey family could populate a taleall on their own.This was the eighth year of the com

Often, there is a stand-out groupformers bound to take the top fourNot so this time. The depth of talremarkable. At least ten acts were good enouginto the top spots. Some, such as TaEvans, Courtney Hackett, Charlottkins, Kaisey Reilly and Sadie Horcount themselves very unlucky not got their hands on one of the tropmust have been a close thing. Laurtook second place, with Kayleigh Cothird, and Xcell in 4th place. They excellent.Special awards went to Wings, thtacularly costumed and brilliantly graphed musical act, and to Kyle H

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Taylor Jay

Evans

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LOCAL DEMOCRACY PAGEYour councillors, campaigners and candidates

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets” - Napoleon Bonapa

Ballot papers werechecked and counted,councillors appointed;electoral democracy hasbeen enacted and deliv-ered.But we face a far moreimportant decision onJune 23rd when we voteto determine Britain’sfuture as an independ-

ent, democratic, sover-eign nation, free to en-

act our own laws, enforceour Supreme Court’s de-

cisions and elect our ownpolitical representatives.The EU today is unrecognisable fromthe ‘Common Market’ we thoughtwe were joining in 1973 and DavidCameron’s renegotiation for contin-

ued membership in a reformed EU isa sham; he asked for very little andgot even less.With each new treaty, the EU isevolving into a full-blown political

and economic super-state,own Parliament, Flag, AntheForce, Judiciary, CurrencyBank, Foreign Oce, Presidder force and soon, its owForces.Do we really want to be a p ‘United States of Europe’, ruBrussels by unelected, unacand undemocratic EU Comers? Are we content to be someone else’s ag?Or do we want to keep our ience, our democracy and oheritage based on 800-yearmon law enshrined in thCarta, to live in a sovereigntermining country, a countryforebears fought and died f

world wars, the country thatmocracy to the World?

The choice is ours to makeleave the EU

Local democracy is the

winner, but for how long

Andrew GarcarzUKIP Sutton Coldeld

& Erdington, Chair

Having just had the local Council andPolice and Crime Commissioner elec-tions, things will soon be winding upagain for the European referendum

in June. The question here is wouldBritain be better outside the 28 mem-ber union, just as it has coped withbeing outside the 19 member Euro-zone?My own view is that there is no clear “best” option and everyone will havetheir own take on the matter. How-ever, I would like to make three quickpoints:-

1. Some people believe that the Eu-ropean regulations will disappear ifwe leave, but many of them havealready been passed into UK law and

that is unlikely to change.2. If we do vote to leave, Britaincould become a “bit part player”in the global market, and while wewould still be a large economy wemay no longer be a favoured destina-tion for foreign investors.3. People also forget that so muchresearch, into such conditions ascancer and Alzheimer’s is funded by

EU grants, and leaving woucomplexity and uncertainty.Of course for every reasonyou can nd one to leave, anend of the day it’s a decisioneed to make based on our oof what is important for us, olies and our country.

Should we stay orshould we go?

I would just like to set therecord straight after re-

ceiving a leaet deliveredby the Tories during the

run up to the election.I certainly did not see them thenight the Travellers arrived at PypeHayes Park. I sat outside the parktill 11.30pm and I was in constantcontact with the council, police, andfriends of the park.I am proud to say all organisationworked together to get the Travel-lers o the park and to get the areacleaned up.I have started working with theCouncil to see how we can best stopthis happening again, each time theTravellers are on the park it costs usmoney to clean up the area and toput right any damage they cause. Iwill be arranging a meeting with theCouncil and the Friends of Pype Hayes

Park at the earliest opportunity.Protecting our park is not easy buttogether with my colleagues, Coun-cillor Lynda Clinton and recently re-elected Councillor Mick Brown we willwork together with all agencies and

especially the local community.If you would like to contact me pleasedo so on 07713982258.

I have been working withpopular local campaignerClifton Welch over thelast few weeks to tacklethe issue of inconsiderate

contractors on the formerCincinnati works site. Cliftonand I have reported the contractors tothe City Council planning enforcementteam for breach of planning conditionsand also contacted the contractors,Galliford Try, themselves. The level ofnoise, trac, air pollution and rubbishbeing released across the local areacombined with very early starts in theweek and weekends, long before thework is meant to start each day ismaking local residents lives a misery.We will be chasing the Council, soonif they have not resolved the issue bythe deadline they gave us of the 24thMay, if action is not taken to redressthe situation urgently as it is totallyunacceptable for residents to have toput up with this going forward.

Let’s setrecordstraight

Councillor Mike SharpeTyburn Ward Labour

Construction woesfor local residents

by Robert AldenConservative campaigner and

Erdington Councillor

Thank you very much toeveryone who voted forme in the recent elections.While I did not win this May we againmade progress closing the Labourmajority. This was the last set ofelections that will be fought on thecurrent boundaries. Going forwardTyburn ward will be broken into threesingle member wards of Castle Vale,Tyburn and Pype Hayes.Therefore it is highly likely from thenext election Tyburn will cease to

have three Labour Councillors. ThisMay the Tyburn Ward had a Labourmajority of around 900 but the pro-posed Castle Vale ward only had La-bour ahead of the Conservatives by200. While the proposed Pype HayesWard actually voted for the Conserva-tives by a majority of 100. Thereforein 2018 the elections across the cur-

rent Tyburn Ward will be a completelydierent kettle of sh and residentswill have the prospect of their votereally counting in terms of who canwin the ward.In the coming year I will be continu-ing to campaign for Tyburn Wardall year round, continuing to carryout local cleans help residents withunwanted developments and othersuch campaigns. If there is anythingI can do to help you or anything youwant my help to campaign on pleaselet me know by contacting me on [email protected] , 07505745808 orby writing to Tyburn Conservatives,96 Orchard Road, Erdington, B24 9JD.

Thank you

Clifton WelchConservative campaigner

Just how important waschild safety in and aroundwater on the 25th April?Well around 100 adults turned upwith their children from toddler to

teenager to listen, learn and take partin the exciting event.West Midlands Fire

Service Rescue Teamworked with our Duck-lings to appreciate thedangers whilst enjoy-ing the freedom of be-ing condent and safe. Volunteer youngsterswere rescued both inand out of the waterand the event wasrounded up by themall being taken aroundthe pool in the dinghy. As you can see fromthe picture, us adultsenjoyed a trip too!There is a video of theevent available and

anyone wishing to view ittact me on 07727 92307If you missed this eventhoping to hold another inwatch out for more informKeep safe – Both in and owater.

US IN A BOAT!!National Drowning Event at Castle Pool

Councillor Lynda ClintonTyburn Ward Labour

Councillor Mick Brow

Tyburn Ward Labou



Brave teen Ham

Tahir won the he

of the audience at

nals of Castle Va

Got Talent.

Hammad has some dicwith communication beca

a stammer. Before and aft

performance, it was clear

audience that Hammad

gles a little with his speec

But the Year 8 pupil perfo

a rap song that he had w

himself.

It was a uent, passionat

dynamic performance.

Faultless.

The 13 year-old beamed

delight as the judges pr

his singing and songwskills.

Audience

lovesHammad

Dancer Emily Seeney

had plenty of fans in

the audience as she

delivered a stylishperformance in the

Castle Vale’s Got Tal-

ent nals.It’s dicult for individual danc-

ers to make their mark with

the judges. It’s usually the

singers who get the glory.

Emily, along with Sadie Hor-

ton who puts in a brilliant

performance every year, and

dance group Desist, have to

be content with the admira-

tion of the audience.

It’s been six years since an

8 year-old dancer called Jak

Tuite won CVGT.

Jak’s been a hard act to fol-low!

Tough fortalenteddancers


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On the 23rd of April 2016,I took part in a uniquegolng experience, the

‘Midlands Golfer Par 3Masters’ at the beautifulNailcote Hall in Berkswell,Warwickshire.The event hosted by Midlands Golfermagazine, and special guests ClubChoice Ireland, is played each year on

the 9 hole, par 3 Cromwell course, inthe wonderful surroundings of Nail-cote Hall Golf & Country Club.Dont let the 9 hole par 3 fool you.This is as tough as it gets, and is of-

ten referred to as the’ Augusta’ of themidlands.

Golf societies from all over the mid-lands took part, in a straight knock-out competition, all battling it out towin the rst prize, a golf trip to Ire-land for two.Myself and my playing partnerBrendan O’Reilly reached the seminal before being knocked out on aplay o hole, by the George Inn GolfSociety from Daventry, who inciden-tally went on to win in the nal.

Nailcote Hall welcomes visitors all yearround, so if you want a fun golng ex-perience, wether that be just you anda friend, or a golf society give it a try,you wont be disappointed.

On the 26th-29th of July 2016 theFarmfoods British par 3 Championship

takes place at Nailcote.The event will be hosted for a ninthconsecutive year by Tony Jacklin CBE.The prize fund has now risen to£50,000 compared to £5,000 nineyears ago.Some of the names who have takenpart in this pro-am event include PaulLawrie, Ian Woosnam, Sam Torrance,Charley Hull and reigning Masterschamp Danny Willett.

Some of the nations best loved sport-ing and tv personalities will be takingpart in the celeb-am competition.To get your tickets go to britishpar3.com or contact Nailcote Hall

Par-threeparadise

Tony

RocheTyburn

Mail’s

golf writer

Paget Rangers havebeen in impressiveform since the startof 2016. The Midland League DivisionTwo club had struggled early

in the season, but since theturn of the new year, theyhave won 12 of their 15league games.Paget nished in 4th placein their league, despite los-ing their nal game of the

season to table-topping AlvisSporting Club.Paget chalked up 16 winsfrom their 26 league games,and ended with a goal dier-ence of 31.Top goalscorer for Paget

was Mark Bellingham, with36 goals, followed by DannyCarter, who netted 28 times.Dean Morris was third on thelist with eight goals for theseason.Castle Vale Concorde endedup bottom of the Premier Di-vision of the Festival Sundayleague.The newly promoted teamhad struggled all season,managing 3 wins and 2draws from their 18 xtures.It was a dierent story forConcorde Utd, two divisionsbelow. They topped the Sen-

ior Amateur One Division,with 14 wins and 2 drawsfrom their 18 league xtures.They had a staggering goaldierence of 60, and hitdouble gures on three oc-casions.They beat Horizon 11-0 in April, and Great Barr Rang-ers All Stars 10-0 in Febru-ary.But the biggest hammeringof the season was saved forFC Elite in December.The game ended 13-1 toConcorde.

LOCAL FOOTBALL ROUND-UP

Paget’s 2016 pick-me-upHighs and lows for Concordes

Song for Vi

Club striker and skippe

The eet-footed Gabby

Now looks like a barrel

He rolls, and is abby.

Big Joleon Lescott

Has got a new car

His own hobbling legsWon’t get him very far.

In a Tenerife gutter

Jack Grealish sleeps, p

His career is on hold

And his talent is missed

Remi Garde was a op

He took Villa to bottom

He did nothing for mon

And is now long forgott

The Champions Leagu

Is awaiting Bacuna

Pigs ying overhead

Could well happen soo

NZogbia’s job

Was to work in attack

He took lots of money,

And gave nothing back

The stadium echoes

With boos from the fan

Their players the target

At a club with no plans

Cissokho and Richards

Gestede and Sinclair

The club will be better

When you are not there

The fans deserve more

But Lerner is blind

To the banners and pro

He seems not to mind..

....That the Champions

Is where Villa will play

And the jaws of LeagueOpen wider each day.

Fat Alan Ma

CRASH! BANG!

WALLOP!

Walmley all-rounder Tom Burton smashed

the Leamington bowlers to all corners of the

ground and beyond in his innings of 76.

Walmley won the game by 75 runs.

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