Forshaw Heath & Earlswood BoD in Warwickshire

Well here you go, Crime Stats for November 2020 for Alcester North, Once on the page hover over the hot spots to get a break down for your village or town, I still think this is a great tool. Just a reminder the tool is provided by www.police.uk  and is for  anywhere England As always I have set the default search area for Alcester North. Click Here to Access Crime Map For Alcester North

Many thanks to Earlswood Wildlife Partnership for continuing their hard work during a difficult year and for providing us with our News Letters. Please find the most recent News letter on the link below. News Letter 37 Click Here

  As I reflect on the past few days, I can’t help but be reminded that amongst all the doom and gloom of our current times, there are also acts of kindness and humanity from complete and utter strangers. I was taken aback when one of these kind strangers realised what a pickle I was in when I couldn’t find my purse in my handbag or pockets as I was about to pay for my goodies, of course my initial thoughts were not to worry about the goodies I wanted to pay for but my vanishing purse. The gentleman in the que behind me must have sensed my total panic and quite simply said to the sales assistant I will pay and to me he said don’t worry I know how you feel. He had paid & disappeared by the time I had repacked my handbag and gathered my Cup of Coffee, cheese & bacon bake type thing and frozen peas to go with tea. That is what I call kind. So if you know a gentleman who was in Shirley at the M&S attached to the BP garage on the Stratford Road at lunch time on Wednesday 9th Dece

Well as crime has been on my mind for the last couple of weeks and it has always appeared difficult to find any meaningful crime stats. I have at long last found the information used by the Police lurking on the Police.uk website. It is not live data and runs approx 6 to 8 weeks in arrears for example October 2020 is now visible. This is a totally interactive tool, easy to use and has a great dashboard, what is good about this tool it also provides outcomes. The default is for the whole of the Alcester North area however it is simple to find out where the hot spots are and which crimes have been included. So for those of you keeping an eye on the stats this may well be the tool to use. To get to the information  just click the link  below Alcester North Crime Data

Well it is the 3rd or fourth time I have wanted to scribble general thoughts and ramblings. I am currently feeling Sad, Confused, Annoyed and totally at the end of my tether with absolutely everything just in one short week we have had the following. A survey from PC asking us if we would notice a slight increase of the cost per week of our Parish Council Precept. A survey from the Police and Crime Commissioner  potentially asking the same question but for the Warwickshire Constabulary. Malthouse Lane Park now looks like a prison camp (Personal Opinion Only) so much for the openness of the Greenbelt. We have had two horrific crimes within a week - Neither of which we as a wider community would have known about if it weren't for local word of mouth, SM and groups and not from official sources ie Police, MSM except for the Daily Mail  A niggling and real Nitpicking moment  is when on the  3rd of December 2020  @20:07 hrs  I still don't see  Octobers Parish Council Minutes publish

Planning applications validated by   Stratford District Council November 2020  The link will take you straight to the SDC planning validation page.