• DAB, how do we tune in?

  By Engineer2

  Sadly this article reads like a press release from propaganda organisation Digital Radio UK. What...

            

   

  By Sutton Coldfield Observer at 05:00 on 17/05/13

  

  MOST of us have heard of DAB Radio but not everyone owns a digital radio set. DAB, or Digital Audio Broadcasting, has been with us since the early 1990s but the take up rate has been much slower than with digital television. Virtually everyone in the UK is now able to take advantage of the extra channels and services available through digital TV. However, DAB Radio offers many advantages over standard analogue AM and FM radio....

• Police move on 'boy racers' and bikers from Bassett's Pole

  By zzf00l

  I agree completely... I think the Police are turning a blind eye to the problem or perhaps looking...

            

   

  By Tamworth Herald at 09:00 on 01/06/12

  

  OFFICERS from three police forces strove to disperse hundreds of "boy racers" and motorcyclists who descended on the area at the weekend. At around 9pm on Sunday night (May 27), Warwickshire police were called to Hams Hall to reports of a group of cars and motorcycles driving around the area, travelling the wrong way around roundabouts and generally causing a nuisance. At 10.30pm, Warwickshire police were alerted by...

• Eighteen drivers are hit in the pocket as police tackle speeding

  By elbmek

  I agree its not actually a bad thing, but they are in the wrong places at the wrong time. If they...

            

   

  By Sutton Coldfield Observer at 09:20 on 17/05/13

  

  SPEEDING motorists were the target of a policing operation in Sutton this week after local residents highlighted the issue as a concern. Officers from the Birmingham North community action and priority team took to the town's streets on Wednesday afternoon and issued 18 fixed penalty notices, which incurred a fine and penalty points and warned a further 20 drivers that they had exceeded the limit. Using a pro-laser speed detection...

• MP speaks out against building on greenbelt in Commons debate

  By elbmek

  It was Andrew who got the lifts fixed in the car park in town. The council had replied to 3 yeras of...

            

   

  By Sutton Coldfield Observer at 09:20 on 17/05/13

  

  THE campaign to protect Sutton's greenbelt received a welcome boost last week when the debate got an airing in Parliament. The town's MP, Andrew Mitchell threw his weight behind the battle to halt a proposal which could see up to 10,000 new homes built on the Sutton Coldfield greenbelt – to the north east of the area – in an attempt to solve Birmingham's housing crisis. As part of the Queen's Speech debate last week he...

• Challenging the viability of building on the Sutton Coldfield green belt

  By Camland01

  Agreed and the concept of a Town Council is a good one but the viability Principles would be the...

            

   

  By Baggie at 20:22 on 07/04/13

  

  "What are the results of a financial viability study, as required by the National Planning Policy Framework, and associated infrastructure costs to build 10,000 new homes on the Sutton Coldfield green belt?" This is my question to Birmingham City Council leaders on Tuesday 9th April 2013 at the public Council Meeting, but why is this important? The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has placed a much stronger...

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