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Ward End Park Road Safety
Residents have contacted me about speeding traffic on Ward End Park Road. So I’m asking for your help. Please fill in the survey below to let me know how big you think the problem has now become?
Weekly Round Up 2nd May
I hope very much this finds you well and safe. It’s been another intense week – but it does now seem like the Peak of Covid may be behind us – for now. We have lost so many dear loved ones – including Mary Jagroop, a much loved nurse at Heartlands. Too many families know […]
Weekly round up 25th April
I hope everyone had a very happy St George’s Day this week, and my very best wishes to everyone celebrating Ramadan this year! It’s been another intensely busy week, so I wanted to share some updates on our work on campaigning for more PPE for our frontline staff, trying to sort the chaos in Free […]
Weekly Round Up
This week I’ve been humbled to see the very best of our region coming together in the face of massive adversity. At the same time, we’re hearing troubling reports of a lack of PPE in our care homes and NHS and I’m working hard to make sure the government comes clean on what PPE is […]
Mayor’s Local Industrial Strategy A Missed Opportunity for West Midlands Green New Deal
Liam Byrne will today say the Tory Mayor of the West Midlands has missed a huge opportunity to declare a Climate Emergency and put in place a Green New Deal to tackle spiralling youth unemployment. The Tory mayor, Andy Street, today launches his local industrial strategy – without any timetable to deliver a carbon neutral […]
Dear James, please pay us what we’re owed
Dear James, Please pay over the money agreed for house building. We have a housing and homelessness crisis in our region. Homelessness is soaring and we are building affordable homes so slowly it will take until 2052 to clear waiting lists for council waiting lists. But when the West Midlands Combined Authority was set up, […]