The Express & Star recently featured an article about Mark and Lisa Edge who run a sanctuary at their Wednesfield home for unwanted or injured crows, ravens, magpies and rooks and have 37 birds in their care.
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After a record number of entries the annual Wolverhampton Homes Garden Competition was a celebration of the hard-working men, women and children of Wolverhampton who make the city a more pleasant place to live. The winners were announced last night (Wednesday 22 September) in a ceremony held in the Mayor’s Parlour at Wolverhampton City Council […]
Stone plaques have been erected to celebrate the heritage of one Wolverhampton’s most popular green spaces. And they also mark the completion of the £2m makeover of Wednesfield Park and King George V Playing Fields carried out by Wolverhampton City Council and British Waterways. The stone lion and unicorn plaques, which now sit proudly on […]
We’ve just spotted in the Essington Fruit Farm Newsletter: At last the pick-your-own season has started! We have lots of lovely strawberries, the recent rains have swollen them nicely and plenty are now ripening up. Other fruit crops will soon follow: gooseberries may be picked now but will benefit from a week or two to […]
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Tidy Garden Scheme Launched
Older tenants of Wolverhampton Homes are being urged to take advantage of a new gardening service, called the Tidy Garden Scheme, launched this week. The new gardening service is launched in partnership with grounds maintenance supplier Continental Landscapes and will cost £7 a week. In the spring and summer, the service will include fortnightly lawn […]
Blogger ‘Captain Ahab’ has written an in depth post about Bentley Canal which passes through Wednesfield. The blog post not only contains a detailed history of the Canal and it’s origins, but also includes ‘then and now’ photos of the Canal from 1992 before much of the re-development work in the area began. One such […]
Photo Source There’s been lots of Wv11 news in the last week or so – here’s a round up… Comic Relief fraudster spared jail Express & Star – 13th November 2009 Cat’s teeth shattered by gun thugs Express & Star – 13th November 2009 Lifeguard cleared over swimming pool drowning of Walsall father This Is […]