To park, or not to park, that is the question:

At Last!

I see in the press Sandwell have dropped their plans for parking restrictions to be implemented by the Albion Ground; I feel that if this plan had been implemented, it would have had a serious impact on the loyal Albion fans, which with their team bring in such well earned kudos and revenue into the borough.

This news came in the same week as a number of traders have been voicing concern that the lack of car parking in West Bromwich is affecting their trade, allied to the fact the new Police station has no car park for its staff and the new college has only a handful of parking places.

What is Sandwell’s problem with the car?

Mean while we are still waiting to see if the West Brom Building Society moves its head office out of the borough

What is going on in Sandwell??

wisdom, care, and guidance

I see Providence Place opened this week and I truly hope it’s a success, as our borough seriously needs the jobs, one problem still to be corrected however are the jobs that it brings with it.

The multinational is offering salaries of up to £22,500 a year, yet a recruitment company handling the jobs has stated that the standard of applications to the company, has been weak.

Apparently 1,500 people had enquired about, registered an interest and about 50 started on

Sandwell Tory said

I do hope there’s no link between local school achievement and these jobs, from other postings they are after people with Math’s & English GCSE level qualifications, strangely enough that's just what the Coalition Government want as well.   

let’s wait and see what the councils scrutiny department find out

Source

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/01/07/bt-struggles-to-fill-200-jobs-at-black-country-call-centre/

Another Free School starts to rise

Some people must have been reading my last posting as I read this week of a new proposal for an academy school in Smethwick.

I applaud them and wish them every success, as the group hope the school will be a multi cultural school, but based on a Sikh ethos, I also see that they wish to grow the school over a few years to around 700 students from all walks of the community.

It now seems people are fed up with the typical promises of better education next year, that Labour have churned out every year for about the last decade only to find out months later that Sandwell is still at the bottom of national league tables, so they are voting with their feet setting up new schools.

I hope that it will raise educational standards by raising achievement and students aspirations