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Reigning Midland boxing champion Steve Saville aka ‘The Wednesfield Bomber’ has pledged to repay local businesses and organisations who helped him after his personal gym was damaged by a fire earlier this month.
Steve is hoping to bring home the English title at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on September 18th as a way of repaying those who have provided him with training facilities whilst his gym is rebuilt.
Local community campaigner Irene Dodd recently contacted us with some information about the Ashmore Park Resident’s Association:
“The next meeting of the Ashmore Park Resident’s Association takes place on Wednesday September 2nd at 7pm. Meetings are held at the Community Centre on Griffiths Drive. Please come and help us to work for our estate by letting us know your concerns.”
Resident’s Association meetings are an ideal place for local residents (you!) to have a say on what’s going on in the local area. So if you live in Ashmore Park, why not pop down and see what people have to say?
Thank you to everyone who has been in touch regarding the site, it seems that the people who live in and around WV11 like what we are doing here so it’s been worth the effort getting it all up and running.
We’ve had some lovely comments and some very useful feedback left.
Over the weekend we received this message from Gina;
“What about a “we want to sell section”. At least you know you won’t have to travel far if there is something of interest. I’m sick of ringing an advert in the paper and finding out it’s in Dudley or miles away. At least this way, no one will have to travel more than a few miles. Just a suggestion anyway…”
We said if you had any suggestions to let us know and we’d see what we could do about implementing them, so true to our word we have. If you now click on the community page, you will see our forum and there you will find a brand new category.
A successful campaign by led The Black Country Chamber of Commerce means that from September onwards The Black Country will be highlighted on Ordnance Survey maps for the first time.
The campaign which aimed to raise the profile of the area nationally has resulted in the decision to show the region by name on the The OS Landranger Map 139 which has been retitled “Birmingham and Wolverhampton including the Black Country”.
The Express & Star reports that the Department of Work and Pensions’ Future Jobs Fund has handed Wolverhampton £3 million to create new jobs for long term unemployed people aged 18 to 24. The fund aims to create around 2,000 new jobs in the Black Country from October 2009 at a variety of different organisations.
2,000 new jobs created locally can only be seen as a positive move by the Government given the current economic climate, let’s hope some of this funding benefits those unemployed in WV11.
Wolverhampton’s Transport Interchange project is due to start the first stage of construction on October 16th with the levelling of the existing bus station to make way for the new station and associated buildings.
The first stage of the project will be to move the existing stops to locations around the city centre and of course this will have an impact on bus services that pass through Wednesfield, WV11. (559, 560 , 528 etc).
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