107.7 The Wolf  radio station has teamed up with The Mander Centre to bring you the Pride of Wolverhampton Awards 2011 – A chance to showcase all that’s good about the people of Wolverhampton!

In October they will be holding a glitzy black tie event at Molinuex, honouring some of the most deserving and admirable people our city has to offer! With a range of awards up for grabs all you need to do nominate someone you know and they could be one of the lucky winners to receive an accolade to be proud of.

The categories include:

Child of Courage – Open to Children aged up to 16. Courageous act over a long period of time i.e. illness, hospital etc.

Little Star – Open to Children aged up to 16. Performer, dancing singing etc. Heading for stardom!

Teacher of the Year (Adult)- Kids need to get to voting this time – tell us why your teacher deserve to be given the award of Teacher of the Year – have they done something really special for you and your classmates. Headteachers, have you got as member of staff who has gone the extra mile for the children at your school?

Parent/Guardian of the Year (Adult) Kids need to get to voting this time – tell us why your parents deserve to be given the award of Parent of the Year – have they done something really special for you and your siblings, do they work really hard etc etc.

Grandparent of the Year (Adult) – Kids need to get to voting this time – tell us why your grandparents deserve to be given the award of Parent of the Year – have they done something really special for you and your siblings/parents, do they work really hard etc etc.

Friend of the Year (Children/Adult) – Fairly Generic but an individual who has been community minded and given back and gone the extra mile for a friend.

Neighbour of the Year (Children/Adults) – Fairly Generic but a neighbour who have been community minded and given back and gone the extra mile.

Family Of The Year(Children/Adults) – Fairly Generic but a whole family who have been community minded and given back and gone the extra mile.

Entrepreneur Of The Year (Children/Adults) – Business minded, good idea that’s raised funds

Outstanding Achievement In Sport (Children/Adults) – An achiever in a particular sport. Trains hard, enters competitions, wins medals/trophies.

Carer Of The Year (Children/Adults) – Carer for Family Member or someone who works in the industry who goes the extra mile.

Act of Bravery – Open to Children and Adults – Random act of bravery e.g. fire incident, dangerous circumstances etc

Contribution to the Community (Children/Adults) sponsored by SunnySide Kennels – Dedication to community groups.

Charitable Act of The Year (Children/Adults). – Someone who has carried out a huge fundraiser attempt i.e. challenge/event.

To nominate your chosen parties visit 107.7 The Wolf website and fill in their form Closing date for entries is Sunday 9th October and they can not accept late entries.

This morning we received a call from a concerned WV11 resident asking us to make you all aware of a scam that that is again doing the rounds.

Fraudsters are calling people up claiming to the from their internet provider, from Microsoft windows or from a anti virus company saying there is problems with their computer and asking them to run some checks and install some software onto their machines.

This is often a malicious  attempt to gain remote access to your computer and once they’ve done this the fraudsters can then gain access to all the important files contained there. Further to this they will also ask for some form of payment probably using your debit / credit card which once they have the details leaves it open for further misuse.

The lady we spoke to this morning had just received one of these calls herself, but being savvy to the threat of cyber criminals politely informed the caller that she hadn’t got a computer and he swiftly hung up. She has reported the incident to the authorities and then called WV11 asking us to alert other readers to this threat.

This type of crime is nothing new but does seem to be having some kind of national resurgence at the moment with fraud attempts being reported across the country so just beware.

If you have any news or events to tell  WV11 about get in touch via our contact page or call / text us on 07855 409 319.

Image by damirme/Flickr  used under CC license.

Liberal Democrat Councillor for Willenhall North, Ian Shires had this to say on his website:

“Phone calls from constituents living in the area began coming in early yesterday evening…I have contacted Walsall Council officers and the Police in order to start the process of moving them on as a matter of urgency.

As well as the nuisance and inconvenience suffered by residents in the area there is the cost of cleaning up the site once they’ve gone so the sooner they’re moved on the better”

These travellers are believed to be a different group to those who last week moved on to the Ellards playing fields off Colman Avenue in Wednesfield.

This week marks 1 year since we made the first post on WV11.co.uk!

We’ve decided to celebrate by thanking everyone who has contributed to the website; either by sending us news, commenting on articles, supporting us on Facebook and Twitter, emailing us with messages of support or advertising on the site. THANK YOU!!!

Special thanks also go to: Simon Hamilton, Kate Hughes, Irene Dodd, Manjeet Singh, PCSO Matt Bailey, Bryan & Gemma Murphy, the members of WAAN and Sabcat Printing.

The site has come a long way in the past 12 months and whilst we’re only a team of two, we’re really pleased with the response we’ve had from the local community. It’s great when we bump into someone we don’t know and they’ve heard of the site and we hope that WV11.co.uk continues to be a valuable resource to the people of Wednesfield.

We’d love more people to get involved with the website, so if you’d like to contribute or you have any views on what we should be writing about, please email us on info@wv11.co.uk or call/text us on 07855 409 319.

For those of you who are into stats, here’s a run down of figures from our first year…

Visitor Statistics:

Total visits: 22,213
Unique visitors: 16,670
Average number of visitors per month:  1,389

Total page views: 50,987
Unique page views: 39,693

68% of visitors have come from search engines
13% of visitors have come directly from typing WV11.co.uk into their browsers
10% of visitors have come from other sites linking to us
7% of visitors have come fromfrom other sources

Facebook ‘fans’: 981
Twitter followers: 201

Posts Statistics:

Average number of posts per month: 20.8
Average number of words per post: 227
Total number of posts: 250
Total number of words in posts: 56,715

Top 5 most popular posts/pages:

Home page: 8,955 views
Bentley Bridge news category: 2,731 views
Cosmo Pan Asian restaurant opens: 2,946 views
Pure Gym opening soon: 2,351 views
New Aldi store coming to Wednesfield: 1,593 views

Birthday cake photo by Omer Wazir.

Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a long-term programme of investment and change in Wolverhampton. It will provide in excess of £300 million to transform education for secondary age students by providing 21st century learning environments that engage and inspire young people, their teachers and the wider community.

It’s about modernising buildings, facilities and ICT so that they can support the development of world class teaching and community provision in every school in the city that serves secondary age students.

For anyone who missed yesterdays announcement  all of the schools in Wolverhampton who were destined for improvement will be unaffected by yesterdays cuts.

Good news for Coppice, Deansfield and Wednesfield High who are all scheduled for improvement work under this scheme.

For a full list of schools and their status after yesterdays cuts is available in the Birmingham Post website

Hello there! Now you’ve found our post about Cosmo (it’s very popular!), how about subscribing to email updates or following us on Facebook?

We post tons of info about news and events in Wednesfield and often find out first about new restaurants opening such as Cosmo and Nandos.

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TO MAKE A BOOKING, PLEASE CALL: 01902 722233

A new Pan Asian restaurant opens in Wednesfield at Bentley Bridge Retail Park on Monday 21st June.

Restaurant chain Cosmo which owns 10 branches across the UK opens it’s newest restaurant which will serve food from China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Mongolia, India and Vietnam and has created 38 new jobs in the area.

The company has been fitting out the unit since January and is offering the chance of free food and drinks to those who register for more information on their website, where you can also book a table online.

Read on for opening times and prices…

TO MAKE A BOOKING, PLEASE CALL: 01902 722 233

Lunch

Monday to Saturday: 12:00 – 15:00

£6.50 – Adult
£3.00 – Child under 150cm
£2.00 – Minimum Charge

Dinner

Monday to Thursday: 17:30 – 22:30
£11.99 – Adult
£6.00 – Child under 150cm
£3.00 – Minimum Charge

Sunday (Bank Holiday): 12:00 – 22:30
£11.99 – Adult
£6.00 – Child under 150cm
£3.00 – Minimum Charge

Friday to Saturday: 17:30 – 23:00
£12.99 – Adult
£6.50 – Child under 150cm
£3.00 – Minimum Charge

More info on Cosmo’s website.

St Thomas’ Church on the High Street is holding it’s Spring Fayre this Saturday,  10am – 12 noon, Stalls will include cakes, books, music, jewellery, bric-a-brac, groceries, the human fruit machine and more. Everyone is welcome!

If you  attend the Fayre don’t forget to post your pictures to our Flickr Pool or to our Facebook page for everyone to see – if you don’t know how to use Flickr see our guide here.

St Thomas can now also be found on Facebook.

Dream ending to nightmare trip
Express & Star

We recently received an email asking if we could mention nearby Fallings Park Methodist Church’s new website:

“Hello

Would it be possible to mention on WV11 that Fallings Park Methodist Church can now be found online by visiting the new website www.fallingsparkmethodist.co.uk?

The site has been set up so that we can encourage members of the local community to visit and see some of the Church’s activities and groups that are on offer.

Many thanks

Love the WV11 site, really good to see such a local website doing well.

Rich”

PACT meetings (Partners and Communities Together): Group meetings where you can raise any concerns you might have about your community with your local neighbourhood officers.

Drop-in Surgeries: Where you can speak to your neighbourhood officers on a one-to-one basis and raise any concerns that you might have about your community.

You can download a PDF of all Wednesfield PACT meeting dates for 2010 here and all Ashmore Park meeting dates here.