Last night saw Walsall Council’s controlling Tory Cabinet back track on its previously stated position to begin consulting on the closure of Sneyd School Instead they adopted the proposal put forward by your Lib Dem Focus Team councillors to ask the Children’s Scrutiny Panel to look at all options for the future of the school [...]

Today could be one of those defining days as far as Sneyd Community School is concerned. As reported on Sunday it now looks as though Walsall’s Tory Cabinet are taking a step back as far as the school’s future is concerned. All the signs are that the Tories will take the course of action suggested by Lib [...]

Lib – Dem group leader cllr Ian Shires has been told by the Leader of Walsall Council Tory cllr John O’Hare that the cabinet, at its meeting this coming Wednesday, is unlikely to make a decision to begin consultation on the closure of Sneyd Community Comprehensive School. The revelation came at the end of a [...]

Just who is running Walsall Council? Ahead of next weeks cabinet meeting the cabinet member for children’s services has made an announcement in a local weekly paper that he will be recommending the closure of Sneyd Community School by 2011. His rationale for doing this is that he was given only two options by Serco [...]

Highways Chiefs have responded to local concern about road safety along the A462 Essington Road reports Lib-Dem cllr Ian Shires. Regular readers will recall that this issue figured prominently in the recent survey carried out by Beacon School years 3 & 4 students. As a direct result of their interest Ian has suggested that the [...]

A2Z Travel Ltd has lodged an appeal following its licence being revoked recently. The company was fined last week after inspectors from the Vehicle Operator Services Agency discovered problems with the companies vehicles. The ban was due to come into effect Sunday 12th October but has been put on hold pending the appeal. Operating procedures have been [...]

Colleagues in the Short Heath Lib Dem Focus Team report a large number of complaints about the state of the now closed Pool Hayes Tavern in Pool Hayes Lane. Short Heath.  ”We have been lucky up till now” said cllr Doreen Shires, “This is the first pub closure in the ward. Pub companies have a responsibility [...]

I don’t know about you but I’m getting sick and tired of “gloom and doom merchants” talking down any attempt to arrest the downward spiral in the global markets. The media seems to be having a feeding frenzy on anything that is negative almost imploring us to tune into the next exiting episode of this [...]

Following his resent “grilling” by year 4 and 5 students at Beacon Primary School Lib Dem councillor Ian Shires has asked Highways Engineers to look into road safety issues highlighted in the recent environment project carried out by the young students. In particular there was concern about pedestrian safety in Essington Road and along the Lichfield [...]

Short Heath Lib Dem councillor Doreen Shires has asked Highways Engineers to look at improving road safety along High Road and Sandbeds Road following a number of complaints off local residents and shop keepers in the area. Doreen said “It is important to devise a plan which addresses the road safety issues and at the [...]