“ AN OFF-licence owner has agreed to drop the word ‘booze’ after well-heeled Birmingham residents decided it was too tacky for their leafy neighbourhood. Mandeep Bohgal accepted a request to call his shop Moseley Wines after members of the city’s licensing committee expressed concern that Moseley Booze sent out the wrong message.
“ The sustainability group SusMo scooped the West Midlands regional title in the British Gas ‘Green Streets’ competition. Moseley’s winning project will install energy-saving and renewable energy measures in 20 homes, and a number of community buildings.
“ Four men were killed when a car crashed into a wall today, the ambulance service said. The accident happened in Salisbury Road in the Moseley area of Birmingham at about 3.45am, West Midlands Ambulance Service said. A senior paramedic officer, an ambulance and two rapid response vehicles were sent to the scene. A spokeswoman for the service said: “Crews arrived to find a car which had been in a significant collision with a wall. “The four occupants of the car, all men, suffered serious multiple injuries in the crash. Unfortunately nothing could be done to save the men and they were all confirmed dead at the scene.” West Midlands Police were advising motorists to stay away from the area. Anyone who witnessed the crash should call Belgrave Road police station on 0845 113 5000.
“ Looks like moseley is getting a new oxfam book shop where crafty jungle used to be.
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[Moseley] Festival is getting bigger and better each year, and with your help, can go on to great things!
Join us at the Prince of Wales, dining room, at 8pm on Wednesday November 11th so that we can start to make plans for Festival 2010 (Friday 25th June - Sunday 4th July).
Whether you’d like to join the coordinating group, or to run an event, or to help as a volunteer at events, or if you simply want to bring along some ideas - you’ll be very welcome.
Why not be part of Moseley Festival 2010?
The Festival is getting bigger and better each year, and with your help, can go on to great things! It’s a real celebration of a great Brum community.
Join us at the Prince of Wales, dining room, at 8pm on Wednesday November 11th so that we can start to make plans for Festival 2010 (Friday 25th June - Sunday 4th July). It’s a chance to make it what you think it could/should be!
Whether you’d like to join the coordinating group, or to run an event, or to help as a volunteer at events, or if you simply want to bring along some ideas - you’ll be very welcome.
Badger (via jez_higgins)
My dog has run (or more likely strolled) off. If you see this dog http://is.gd/3DiQZ wardering around Moseley please let me know.
http://twitter.com/jezhiggins/statuses/4343063968
UPDATE: DOG FOUND! :)
You are cordially invited to join in a day building an alternative community-generated version of the Birmingham City Council website.
Why?
There has been much discussion around the merits and problems associated with the new website that was launched a week or so ago here: http://birmingham.gov.uk
In response a group of people have been collaborating on our own version: http://bccdiy.com
What’s the aim?
We want to produce a useful resource for the city of Birmingham by making the site we should have had.
What’s the plan?
Now that we have a framework in place for a new site, we need to do lots of work testing it, deciding what goes where, writing useful pages, rewriting confusing stuff, removing incorrect information.
Who can help?
Anyone who can use a computer can contribute.
We need:
- People who know nothing about the web to test it
- People who are good at planning and organising
- Copy writers to write pages
- Photographers to source nice photos from Flickr
- Web designers to think about what’s under the hood (particularly if you know Ruby on Rails, JQuery, etc.)
- Usability experts
- Pretty much anyone…
We start at 9am, and by 9pm we will have a fully-functional, tested website (we hope!) You can drop in at any time. There’s free tea and coffee, it’s light and airy and there are nice cafes nearby.
Directions
By car: Moseley is on the A435 Moseley Road, South Birmingham. From the city centre follow the ring road round and come off at the A435 junction. From the M42 take the A435 junction, 1 junction from the M40.
By bus:Take the 35 or 50 from the city centre and ask for Moseley Crossroads.
By train: Take the train to Birmingham New Street, walk out of the station, through the Bullring and catch the 50 at the back of the Pavillions shopping centre.
Join us - it should be fun, and you’ll be part of a world first!
