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Google has today extended it’s Street View service to cover 95 per cent of the UK, making an extra 210,000 miles of detailed mapping images available online – including Wednesfield.

As you can see by clicking on the street view image above, the majority of Wednesfield is now available to explore and you can literally ‘drive’ around the town.

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The new Just For Pets store at Bentley Bridge Retail Park is due to open on Thursday 25th March according to the Express and Star.

If you’re interested job vacancies, we suggest visiting the careers page on the Just For Pets website.

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Does your child’s school have a problem with parking? Do parents insist on parking dangerously close to the school entrance, despite double yellow lines, signage and pleas from the school? Perhaps you’re a resident who is sick of your drive being blocked by cars at school time?

Or maybe you’re a parent who thinks that schools should have more parking provisions and make it easier for those who need to travel by car to park nearby?

A Northumberland school has threatened pupils with expulsion if parents continue to break parking rules around the school – perhaps this idea should be adopted in Wednesfield?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments and vote in our poll…

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The Express and Star looks at the current success of Wednesfield’s Bentley Bridge Retail Park in this recent article.

As previously reported, national chain Cosmo is due to open it’s new Pan Asian restaurant next month which will serve food from China, Japan and Mongolia, creating 38 jobs.

JD Sports is also rumoured to be on the verge of snapping up an empty unit on the retail park, bringing more jobs to the area and becoming the 2nd sports retailer on the park.

With other units recently being filled by AMF Bowling Alley, Aldi supermarket, Pure Gym, and Just For Pets (which opens on  25th March), it would seem that Bentley Bridge is finally beginning to live up to it’s potential as a retail park worth leaving the city centre to visit, 5 years after it opened.

Let’s hope this trend continues!

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Next week a new BBC TV documentary called ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’ in which four celebrities learn about the realities of unemployment will feature the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles’ niece Emma Parker Bowles behind the bar at the Noah’s Ark pub in Wednesfield.

Celebs Larry Lamb, Diarmuid Gavin, Emma Parker Bowles and Meg Matthews go to live with people who are experiencing life without a job, and without much prospect of one. Their aim is to try and encourage their new friends to go out and find work.

Pic: BBC.co.uk

According to the Daily Mail, Camilla’s niece Emma Parker Bowles has a less happy stint behind the bar at the Noah’s Ark.

‘Momentarily, Emma seemed all right, then it was all downhill,’ says the show’s Emma Harrison.

Pub landlord Clinton Hawker says: ‘I advertised for a bar worker in the Jobcentre and had 80 people apply. If I’d known she was only going to stay two nights, I would have given the job to one of the 79 people on the dole.’

Part 1 of ‘Famous, Rich and Jobless’ airs on BBC 1 on Tuesday 9th March with part 2 following on Wednesday 10th March.

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Recently we were contacted by Carl Rowntree, a instructor from Lee Matthews Blackbelt Academy who have recently begun Martial Arts classes in Wednesfield. Here’s what Carl had to say:

I am writing to introduce the Lee Matthews Blackbelt Academy and to let WV11 readers know that we have just opened a new satellite school in Wednesfield at Edward The Elder Primary School on Moat House Lane East. We teach Martial Arts to everyone from the age of 4 years old and currently have 3 different classes running from this school every Tuesday and Friday.

For more information on our classes and to book a free lesson at Wednesfield, please call 0800 3893987 or visit us online at www.leematthews.co.uk and follow the link at the bottom of the home page.

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