Cllr. Sir Albert Bore Cllr. Kath Hartley Cllr. Carl Rice Ladywood Ward The Council House Victoria Square Birmingham Bl IBB
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Tel. 0121 303 2039 (office hours) December 2012 Dear Ladywood Ward Residents, Community Groups and Service Providers We're writing to invite you to our next Ladywood Ward Committee Meeting (Ladywood's three Councillors, local people and local service providers meeting in public about matters of local concern).
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6.00-9.30 p.m. Friday 14 December • '™.testojQchr¡stmas Market & LHG Exhibition in St. John's & St. Peter's Church, Our Councillors' Darnley Rd., B16 8TF Christmas- New Year Card Thank you, Revd. Ian Harper, for letting us use your beautiful church for our Christmas meeting.
(corner of Monument Rd/Ladywood Middleway, opp. Ladywood Fire Station, buses 8 and 80) http://www.stjohnpeter.org.uk/
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There'll be an exhibition of photos and articles on "Ladywood Christmases Past" starting at 6p.m. Please arrive early to see what's going on and for hot refreshments, 6p.m. onwards- Ladywood History Group "Ladywood Christmases Past"- Exposed! The people of / Ladywood celebrating the Festive Season down the years. /
6.45-7.15p.m.- Carols from the pupils of Oratory Primary School
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7.30 p.m.-TNT Ladywood Seasonal News Show- Meet our new young TNT reporters. Then, on the Agenda: - Youth Services Report- Catch up on what's happening. - Cawdor Crescent- Update on the plans for 45 new homes along Monument Rd. - The Housing Liaison Board- Results of the consultation. - Rubbish Collection and Street Cleaning- especially streets with Friday weekly collections.
Please come to the meeting to celebrate a year of activity in Ladywood Ward. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Cllr. Kath Hartley
Cllr. Carl Rice
Cllr. Albert Bore
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' STOP PRESS!! Recently-elected West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner, Bob Jones, will be dropping in during the evening on 14 December. It's your chance to ask Bob about his new role and to tell him your top issues for policing. Bob Jones, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner
Over the page-"On the Buses" Stage 2, Ladywood Ward Children's Christmas Party
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In response to Cllr. Kath Hartley's requests, Centro officers are taking steps to bring a bus company on board to run a service^ along Monument Rd. to replace at least some of the former no.8 route. "I've discovered that Morrison's management is keen (for obvious reasons) to see more bus services run past or close to their new supermarket on Hagley Rd. And we're doing our best to ensure that people living around Monument Rd. get a look-in," says Kath. One possibility is that an existing Hagley Rd. service could make a detour- now, that would be "just the ticket"!
Ladywood bus passengers are 'champion'! A big thank you goes to the Ladywood Ward residents who have volunteered to be Passenger Champions as advertised in our July mailing. Already our intrepid public transport users have surveyed bus services and stops throughout Ladywood and beyond. "We'll be recruiting more Champions early next year to join the 50-strong army of bus-sleuths who want to improve things for passengers and drivers alike," says Cllr. Hartley. "And we'll be having a Public Transport Conference in March."
Spotlight on 'Spit Kits' So far this year 88 drivers and users have been spat on by passengers on NXWM buses. That's 88 too many victims of this repulsive behaviour.
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The people of Ladywood value their bus services. Our Councillors' mailbag shows this. So, we've decided to update you on some bus matters again.
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Saturday 15 December
12 noon-4p.m. in The Tower Ballroom Reservoir Rd. B16 9EE
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£2.50 per child, £1.50 per adult To find out more, ring: Caron Hallahan- 07791 705 904 Gill Robinson- 079840 615 729 1 i l • "~\l
Winter Special Meeting of: Ladywood Ward Committee Ladywood Ward Councillors, local people and service providers meeting in public about matters of local concern
Thursday 17 January 7 -9p.m. at the Deaf Cultural Centre Ladywood Rd. B16 8SZ (behind Ladywood Social Club, Ladywood Middleway)
On the agenda so far: • TNT Ladywood News Show Now, the bus company has issued its 3,500 drivers with "Spit • The Greater Icknield Development - Come Kits". If a passenger spits on someone, the driver will don and influence what will happen in and protective gloves, take a sample on a swab, place it in a beyond the Icknield Port Loop. A new secondary school for Ladywood- but where sterile container and label it. Once back at the depot, the should it be built? sample will be sent off for DNA tests and stored in a fridge. If the sample matches the DNA of somebody on police records, Hot drinks and light snacks, Watch out for our then the culprit will be visited, arrested and charged; if it mailing in the New Year. doesn't, it will be kept on record and if the offender goes on to commit a further crime he or she will be charged with the All the best for Christmas and the New Year. spitting incident as well. We look forward to seeing you next Thursday .•i 14 December at St. John's and St. Peter's Church.
Ladywood's Cllr. Hartley, Vice Chair of the WMITA/Centro (left), at the launch of National Express WM's Spit Kit. "We're determined to put an end to this filthy offence."
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