Forshaw Heath & Earlswood BoD in Warwickshire

A BRAND new bus service taking in Earlswood, Cheswick Green, Monkspath and Solihull town centre got off to a roaring start last week. The S14 service, run by Grosvenor Coaches, is offering residents of Earlswood their first proper bus route for many a year, enabling them to get to all the amenities they need in Cheswick Green and Solihull. In addition, the new route will pass by Solihull Sixth Form College and Alderbrook and Tudor Grange School making it ideal for term time students. “We have put this service in place after feedback from parents, schoolchildren and students who felt that the new S4 service wasn’t meeting their needs,” said Grosvenor director Dave Sterland. “In addition it means that residents in Earlswood now have direct access to Solihull.” However he added that to survive, the service would have to be used. “It’s a commercial route, there is no subsidy and we are doing all this off our own backs - we are trying to meet the needs of residents and different servi...

I love the internet, this week is the first time ever I have relied on the whole of my holiday via our mutual friend the internet. I cannot believe I can get at my blog . I don't know why perhaps it is because it is the first time I have ever taken my laptop away with me. Don't worry I am not that sad I can't leave it behind. There was a rason for brining it with me and that was quite simply to enable me to do electronic bookings, I didn't know if our fiinal destination allowed us the ability to book in on line but did know our first destination had. I still can't believe my blog is so accesible so far away from home. I must be sad typing away, no not really its so hot outside we can't do much comfortably so we wait until later and spend the day reading, splashing around by the sea, drinking and generally chilling out and recharging the batteries+ scribbling on blogs How did we book our holiday? We used the Internet, Primark, Hand luggage and Holiday Rentals...

Story Number 1 - Caught on Camera: Appeal over assault on train RAIL police are appealing for the public’s help to identify two women in connection with an assault on a member of rail staff. A ticket inspector on board the Birmingham Moor Street to Stratford-upon-Avon service was kicked and stamped on when he challenged two women travelling without tickets. The pair, who got on the train at Moor Street, fled at Earlswood rail station following the incident on Saturday July 31. Anyone who knows the identity of the women should contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40, quoting incident number 504 31/07/2010, or the Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111. http://www.birminghammail.net/news/crime-news/2010/08/19/caught-on-camera-appeal-over-assault-on-train-97319-27095572/ Story Number 2 - Letters sent over teacher image arrests in Solihull Letters have been sent to parents with children at two schools after two teachers were arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent i...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3047002/Old-age-mutant-Brummie-turtle.html ANGLER Steve Bellion was shell-shocked last night - after catching a giant TURTLE. Steve, 23, was fishing for carp when he hooked the 57lb monster in a lake near Birmingham. He was amazed when he got it on the bank and it was identified as an 80-year-old alligator snapping turtle, from south-eastern USA. Tales had abounded for a decade of a vicious creature biting through anglers' lines and attacking ducks. Steve said: "It was hissing and snapping and could easily have taken your hand off." The ancient female is believed to have been a pet which grew too big and was released into Earlswood Reservoir. British Waterways staff moved it to West Midlands Safari Park - where it may now mate with a resident male. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3047002/Old-age-mutant-Brummie-turtle.html#ixzz0tHkIC4lH

I really have a gripe about speed limits and to be honest am pretty peed off for the reason Biddles Hill.Forshaw Heath Road have not been given the same speed limit as Poolhead Lane and the later parts of Rumbush Lane. Let me explain. Broad Lane is a 40 mph limit great well kept roads The Common is a 40 mph limit great well kept road Poolhead Lane until just before the motorway bridge and past the big houses 40 mph I once asked why Forshaw Heath Road could not have a speed limit other the the national one. It was knindly explained to me by my District Councillor at the time that in order to enforce a speed limit and manage it we needed pavements and lighting .Well excuse me but the houses at the top of Poolhead Lane by the golf course don't appear to have lighting and pavements in order to have a speed limit and Poolheadlane leads into Forshaw Heath Road leads into Rumbush Lane. Solihull appear fit to put a 30 mph limit in some of Rumbush lane so why yet again is Forshaw Heath dif...

I am at a loss to know where all the litter comes from we all have our designer wheelie bins now. It's not as if Mr Fox can empty them and then stand them back upright ready for the dustbin men. Whilst being a pedestrian I noticed the litter that adorned the hedge row and ditches. One presumes local residents wouldn't purposefully trog down the road willy nilly throwing their empties in the ditch especially when they have their friendly plastic wheelie mate closer to home. I've been at the verge pardon the pun of wheeling my plastic wheelie mate up the road and putting the litter safely to rest my self but Mr Wheelie Bin can't cope with the potholes and cambers and the pedestrian in me thinks don't take the risk. Where does the litter come from? Well here is the frightening bit! our Dustbin Men on the whole are careful may be the odd bit escapes the rubbish muncher occasionally. However our rubbish has a trend other than the odd crisp packet the rubbish is normal...

Well the time comes to us all I am now nearer 50 than 40 and crossing the road has become a night mare. There are times when a girl says if you can't beat them join them. For sheer self preservation reasons I have recently become a car owner & driver