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Newsthings
Posted: 7th September 10, 06:18am
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Posted: 6th September 10, 09:17am
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Kate Hudson
Posted: 6th September 10, 06:40am
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Zillablog
Posted: 3rd September 10, 09:44am
PLEASE help us to Save the Solihull Green Belt at Marsh Lane. We have launched an online petition to stop the land at Marsh Lane near Brueton Park - the green gateway to Solihull - from being developed. If you care about the Green Belt, please sign online at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/marshlane
Marsh Lane Area Residents Group
Posted: 3rd July 09, 12:00am
Hi Doreen..... I wonder if it would help to ask a 'loss assessor' to act on your behalf? They work for YOU and NOT the insurance company.
Ian Sill
Posted: 6th June 08, 01:14am
I would like to warn your readers, especially those on pensions, or a low fixed income, who believe that they are fully covered by a household contents policy in the event of a domestic accident, they are probably over-optimistic. I flooded my kitchen-diner in January 2007. I have recently been informed that although my policy was described to me as "New for Old", that this only applies in the case of a TOTAL loss. They will only repair my kitchen units. I feel that I have been duped. Perhaps I should have taken the advise of one of my friends at the beginning, and "seen to it" that it was beyond repair. The company is a major national company. The decision was made by one of their loss-adjusters. I was told that the payouts are kept as low as possible in order to keep the premiums low. (They certainly did not seem low to me!!!) Nothing to do with maximising their profits, then???
Doreen Vickery
Posted: 6th June 08, 12:06am
Looking for Sponsors for a Good Cause.... My name is Dave Humphries and I am running a charity golf day on 21st June at West Midland Golf Course in aid of Marie Curie and Edwards Trust . I Lost my 5 year old son in 2003 to a brain tumour and my friend Kerry lost his brother to cancer in 2002, we have been running this event for 3 years and believe Lee Hendrie will play golf on the day. Contact dhumph17@hotmail.co.uk
Dave Humphries
Posted: 3rd June 08, 02:49pm
That Product Search box is really good :) I was looking for a car charger for my Nintendo DS so typed in 'DS Charger' and it found me one from HMV for just £4.99 inc postage. It finds loads of stuff - how does it do that?
Ian Sill
Posted: 2nd June 08, 10:59pm
One long trip down memory lane. I Moved to Old Lode Lane, 603, in the 60's. and went to Ulverley, also remember Mr Green and Mrs Garnowski. Played in the woods in Franklin Close, it backed onto the Olton Hall Pub. Yes many hours falling off our bikes at Hobs Moat, cannot remember all the different courses names, there was a double loop across one corner. Not the same now! Made a guy for Guy Fawkes and made money for fireworks outside Hobs Moat Shops. The Ice Rink..... used to sweep the ice on Sundays and had a free pass. Did not the "Krays" have a battle there? The Masons Arms age limit.... you had to see over the counter. Disco at the track, never forgot the headlines in the local news, everyone having good clean fun. If they only knew the truth :-).Jasper Carrot at the Boggery, Slade at the Civic and Black Sabbath at the college, freaking out the skinheads, tee hee! The Tudor Grange pool and bombing the cafe from the top board. Mell square, firing bangers into the air, using our dropped handle bars as a cannon to shoot them . Yes the foam and Potassium Permanganate made the fountain a lovely purple colour. Who can forget the thrills of "Windy Alley "when the girls from Malvern Hall went home. Coffee and a sly fag in Beatties. One highlight there was taking disabled kids for a Christmas party and drag racing their wheelchairs, to their screams of delight. The cider house on the canal just outside Shirley, never had a Ploughmans like it since. Will try and remember some names, I was at Solihull School from 63-72, cheers everyone!
Scott Andrew Gordon
Posted: 27th May 08, 02:10pm
I grew up in Olton Rd, Shirley in the 70s. The Stratford Rd at that time holds so many memories. I remember Tombs sweet shop - he took over from Mrs Blakemore round about 1970. In the same parade of shops were Mr Rose, the appropriately named florist, Alma Rickard, the fish and game seller, sometimes with rabbits strung up outside the door, 'Chas. Chester' the stationers who sold really good felt tip pens and big bits of card, a hairdresser where my mum used to go, and a laundrette where I used to mind the washing for my parents. I also remember, for some reason 'Butco' central heating, and an incongruous womenswear shop called 'Sadies', which previously had sold, as I remember it, outdoor gear and had a sign that said 'Boats'..... Then there was a drive in garage, Shirley Sports, Davies the butcher, Scotts timber on the opposite side. Would love to see some photographs.
Colin Lambert
Posted: 1st January 70, 12:00am
