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Jail for Walsall businessman who cheated clients
07 Nov 09 13:42
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Jail for Walsall businessman who cheated clients
Express & Star 7 Nov 09
A crooked businessman who cheated cash out of clients by running a Bloxwich firm that carried on trading under a different name after going bust owing at least £144,000 has been jailed...
Jail for Walsall businessman who cheated clients
Express & Star 7 Nov 09
A crooked businessman who cheated cash out of clients by running a Bloxwich firm that carried on trading under a different name after going bust owing at least £144,000 has been jailed...
Rents for struggling Brownhills market halved
02 Nov 09 23:07
Rents for struggling Brownhills market halved
Express & Star 2 Nov 09
Rents at Brownhills’ struggling Tuesday market have been halved to just £10 just two months after being relaunched to attract new traders. It follows news that about 15 stallholders trade on Tuesdays compared to up to 70 sellers on Saturdays...
BBC News 28 Oct Brownhills Market rents to be reviewed
Express & Star 20 Oct Traders fear for revamped Brownhills market
YamYam 14 Oct Dodgy DVD man arrested at Brownhills market
BrownhillsBob 5 Sep Brownhills market: back from the dead
Walsall Council 7 Aug Joy at market re-launch
The YamYam 3 Sep Brownhills market re-launches
Walsall Council 28 Aug 'Full house' of stalls expected at market relaunch
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Markets
Brownhills Market stall rents to be reviewed
28 Oct 09 12:51
Brownhills Market rents to be reviewed
BBC 28 Oct 09
A West Midlands council has pledged to review rents to help kick-start a market which reopened last month. Some stallholders and shoppers say trade and visitor numbers have already fallen at Brownhills Market...
Express & Star 20 Oct Traders fear for revamped Brownhills market
YamYam 14 Oct Dodgy DVD man arrested at Brownhills market
BrownhillsBob 5 Sep Brownhills market: back from the dead
Walsall Council 7 Aug Joy at market re-launch
The YamYam 3 Sep Brownhills market re-launches
Walsall Council 28 Aug 'Full house' of stalls expected at market relaunch
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Markets
Traders fear for revamped Brownhills market
20 Oct 09 23:26
Traders fear for revamped Brownhills market
Express & Star 20 Oct 09
Traders at Brownhills newly-relaunched midweek market have said how they are considering packing up because of a shortage of stallholders. The Silver Street site was standing almost empty on Tuesday morning with only around 15 stalls set out compared to up to 70 sellers at the Saturday market...
YamYam 14 Oct Dodgy DVD man arrested at Brownhills market
BrownhillsBob 5 Sep Brownhills market: back from the dead
Walsall Council 7 Aug Joy at market re-launch
The YamYam 3 Sep Brownhills market re-launches
Walsall Council 28 Aug 'Full house' of stalls expected at market relaunch
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Markets
Dodgy DVD man arrested at Brownhills market
14 Oct 09 00:17
Dodgy DVD man arrested at Brownhills market
The YamYam 14 Oct 09
In a joint operation between West Midlands Police and Walsall Trading Standards, more than 400 illegal DVDs and computer games were seized near the newly re-launched Brownhills market on Saturday. A stallholder in his 30`s who was offering hardcore pornography and counterfeit discs has been arrested.
Walsall Council was forced to step in to save the popular market after the previous operator, Spook Erection, could not negotiate a lease deal with the council. Councillor Garry Perry, cabinet member for communities and partnerships said: “Walsall Trading Standards and police are determined to keep counterfeit DVDs, computer games and offensive material from off our streets and Saturday`s action should be a warning to would-be sellers of fake goods that we won`t tolerate this kind of trading.”
Recently, a haul of 1,500 counterfeit DVDs was seized from a house in Walsall.
BrownhillsBob 5 Sep Brownhills market: back from the dead
Walsall Council 7 Aug Joy at market re-launch
The YamYam 3 Sep Brownhills market re-launches
Walsall Council 28 Aug 'Full house' of stalls expected at market relaunch
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Trading Standards
Walsall Council Markets
Fire wrecks Brownhills garden centre store
03 Oct 09 09:49
Fire wrecks Brownhills garden centre store
The YamYam 3 Oct 09
Just days after announcing a secure future, a landmark Brownhills garden centre has been damaged by fire. Grasmere Gardens Garden Centre on Lichfield Road suffered the blaze in the early hours of Friday morning.
A 16ft by 24ft wooden building used by West Midlands Swimming Pools to store chemicals and documents was wrecked by the blaze. As well as smoke and flames, firefighters had to contend with the addition hazard of fumes escaping from several drums of sodium hypochlorite, a chemical used for cleaning swimming pools. There are no reports of any injuries.
Earlier in the week, Grasmere Gardens was bought by Burntwood landscaping business JP Joslin Ltd following the retirement of the present owners. Up to 20 new jobs could be created as the new owners intend to develop the site with a new play area and restaurant.
The YamYam 1 Oct Sale of popular Brownhills garden centre creates new jobs
Grasmere Garden Centre Home
JP Joslin Home
Sale of popular Brownhills garden centre creates new jobs
01 Oct 09 04:14
Sale of popular Brownhills garden centre creates new jobs
The YamYam 1 Oct 09
The future of a much-loved family-run garden centre has been secured following its sale to a Burntwood landscaping business.
Mr Joslin said: “I have known the previous owner for years and done work with the centre and the staff are like family so all the existing employees will be staying on and there will be about 20 extra jobs created.”
Grasmere Garden Centre Home
JP Joslin Home
Scandal of Black Country gas pipe deception
27 Sep 09 01:13
Scandal of Black Country gas pipe deception
Express & Star 27 Sep 09
Gas officials lied about replacing unsafe pipes in the Black Country in a bid to meet targets. One National Grid manager has been sacked and a major investigation launched...
BrownhillsBob 18 Jul Look out, here comes rubble…
Express & Star 17 Jul More roadworks in pipeline for Walsall this summer
National Grid Gas 16 Jul Pipeline work in Brownhills
Trading Markets PR 31 Mar Gas pipeline upgrade works
B'ham Mail, 14 Mar Legal threat over Walsall road delays
Wikipedia National Grid
National Grid Gas
No alternative spaces to save Walsall Wood truck park
26 Sep 09 12:18
No alternative spaces to save Walsall Wood truck park
Road Transport 26 Sep 09
Walsall Council says it has no plans to provide alternative parking places for HGVs after it won planning permission to convert a truckstop into a car park...
Road Transport 22 Sep Council brands Walsall Wood truck park 'anti-social'
Transport Cafe Truck stops & lorry parks
Council brands Walsall Wood truck park 'anti-social'
22 Sep 09 16:47
Council brands Walsall Wood truck park 'anti-social'
Road Transport 22 Sep 09
Another UK lorry park looks likely to disappear after Walsall Council decided the essential site was "anti-social" and would be better served as a 40-space car park for shoppers. The Council has yet to reveal whether or not it will be making alternative parking provisions for lorries that have been using the park in Walsall Wood for a number of years...
Transport Cafe Truck stops & lorry parks
Brownhills market re-launches on Saturday
03 Sep 09 14:19
Brownhills market re-launches on Saturday
The YamYam 3 Sep 09
Market traders are getting ready to make a return to Brownhills market on Saturday 5 September whilst Walsall Council regeneration bosses put the finishing touches to the re-launch of the site off Silver Street.
The market, established in 1972, once attracted more than 300 traders from around the country but has steadily declined, particularly in the past 18 months as the effects of the credit crunch set in. For the past 20 years the market was traded with a private company and when contract renewal talks between Walsall Council and operators Spook Erection broke down in June the market was closed.
Councillor Adrian Andrew, Walsall Council deputy leader, said: "This is excellent news and shows we are committed to Brownhills. We've worked very hard to resurrect the market and it will be great to see it re-launched".
In response to claims that it will be a return to the bad old days of counterfeit goods and dodgy DVD's Councillor Andrew said: "We want to make it a real top quality market and our markets and trading standards teams will be doing the best they can to do just that".
The market will re-open with fun attractions including face painting and a stilt walker and it is hoped that local people from around Walsall will get behind the event and show support for the Brownhills community.
Walsall Council 28 Aug 'Full house' of stalls expected at market relaunch
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Trading Standards
Walsall Council Markets
'Full house' of stalls expected at relaunched Brownhills market
28 Aug 09 20:35
'Full house' of stalls expected at relaunched Brownhills market
Walsall Council 28 August 09
Quick-thinking traders are on course to snap up all 80 stalls when Brownhills market is re-opened by Walsall Council...
Express & Star 25 Aug Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Home page
Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
25 Aug 09 18:39
Revamped Brownhills market set to reopen
Express & Star 25 August 09
The new-look Brownhills Market is to reopen for business next month...
Express & Star 11 Aug Walsall's unemployed looking for market jobs
Express & Star 4 Aug Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Walsall Council Home page
Brownhills firm reports slight increase in capacity
19 Aug 09 02:58
Brownhills firm reports slight increase in capacity
Birmingham Post 19 August 09
Brownhills manufacturer Castings has reported a slight improvement in fortunes after revealing it axed 350 staff in June...
B'ham Post 25 Jun Castings lash out at Government after sales fall
Express & Star 24 Jun 350 jobs go at Brownhills foundry
Financial Times 4 Jun Castings down but not out
Castings plc Home
Brownhills Wagon site to become new depot
12 Aug 09 21:41
Brownhills Wagon site to become new depot
Express & Star 12 August 09
A £4million land swap deal that will see a former Brownhills factory transformed into a council depot is to be pushed ahead after just one developer put in an offer...
BrownhillsBob 21 Jul Wagon wheeler-dealing?
Express & Star 20 Jul Wagon Automotive site swap bid
BBC News 19 Dec 08 Wagon Automotive cuts 292 jobs
B'ham Post 8 Dec 08 Wagon Automotive enters admin
Mar City Pelsall Road, Brownhills, planning pending
Express & Star Archive
Arriva shake-up for Walsall bus services
08 Aug 09 14:20
News
Arriva shake-up for Walsall bus services
Express & Star 7 August 09
Bus services in parts of Walsall and Staffordshire are to get a shake-up within weeks. Arriva Midlands reviewed services and decided changes were needed to several services in the Burntwood, Cannock, Hednesford and Lichfield areas...
Express & Star Archive
Arriva shake-up for Walsall bus services
Express & Star 7 August 09
Bus services in parts of Walsall and Staffordshire are to get a shake-up within weeks. Arriva Midlands reviewed services and decided changes were needed to several services in the Burntwood, Cannock, Hednesford and Lichfield areas...
Express & Star Archive
Extra market day for Brownhills
04 Aug 09 18:55
Extra market day for Brownhills
Express & Star 4 August 09
The revived Brownhills market could open for three days a week, it emerged today, just weeks after it closed down. The move signals a big turn-around for the 37-year-old market, which shut in June following a contract wrangle. Walsall Council last week stepped in to resurrect the twice-weekly market, to the delight of the 80 stallholders...
Express & Star 28 Jul Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Spook Erection Ltd Home page
Walsall Council Home page
Brownhills Market saved by council
28 Jul 09 13:39
Brownhills Market saved by council
Express & Star 28 July 09
Brownhills market which shut last month after 37 years has had its future secured and will reopen for shoppers in weeks. The Market closed after its owners decided to pull out of the town, leaving stallholders devastated and surrounding businesses claiming the High Street had plunged into despair...
BrownhillsBob 29 Jul Reports of our death may have been a little premature
Advertiser 29 Jul Market set to return
Express & Star 15 July Loss of market hits shops hard
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for market after 37 yrs
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Spook Erection Ltd Home page
Walsall Council Home page
Walsall Wagon Automotive site swap bid
20 Jul 09 21:10
Walsall Wagon Automotive site swap bid
Express & Star 20 July 09
The Wagon Automotive site in Pelsall Road, Brownhills, could be transformed into a relocated North Walsall Council Depot for hundreds of workers through a land-swap deal...
BrownhillsBob 21 Jul Wagon wheeler-dealing?
BBC News 19 Dec 08 Wagon Automotive cuts 292 jobs
B'ham Post 8 Dec 08 Wagon Automotive enters admin
Mar City Pelsall Road, Brownhills, planning pending
Express & Star Archive
Loss of Brownhills market hits shops hard
15 Jul 09 21:49
Loss of Brownhills market hits shops hard
Express & Star 15 July 09
It was once the very heart-beat of Brownhills, a hive of activity and a bustling meeting place which drew visitors from far and wide for 37 years. But shopkeepers say the closure of Brownhills market just three weeks ago has plunged an already struggling High Street deeper into despair...
Express & Star 26 Jun Hopes to resurrect Brownhills market
Express & Star 20 Jun Final day for Brownhills market after 37 years
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Brownhills Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Spook Erection Ltd Home page
Walsall Council Home page
Express & Star Archive
Former Brownhills Wagon workers will get some payout
02 Jul 09 17:23
Former Brownhills Wagon workers will get some payout
Express & Star 2 July 09
Hundreds of employees who lost their jobs following the closure of Wagon Automotives at Brownhills are set to get compensation totalling more than £500,000. The firm, in Pelsall Road, went into administration late last year following the downturn in the motor industry...
Express & Star 19 Dec 08 200 jobs go at car parts firm
Brownhills Castings lash out at Government after sales fall
25 Jun 09 14:45
Brownhills Castings lash out at Government after sales fall
Birmingham Post 25 June 09
Brownhills manufacturer Castings has axed 350 staff after pre-tax profits plunged 78 per cent last year – and pointed the finger of blame at the Government...
Express & Star 24 Jun 350 jobs go at Brownhills foundry
Financial Times 4 Jun Castings down but not out
Castings plc Home
350 jobs go at Brownhills foundry
24 Jun 09 11:39
350 jobs go at Brownhills foundry
Express & Star 24 June 09
Metal bashing firm Castings has axed 350 staff – around a third of its workforce. The Brownhills-based company has already seen production slashed by 60 per cent over the past year. Profits have plunged from £16.7 million to just £3.6m...
Financial Times 4 Jun Castings down but not out
Castings plc Home
Final day for Brownhills market after 37 years
20 Jun 09 16:39
Final day for Brownhills market after 37 years
Express & Star 20 June 09
Traders on the long running Brownhills Market today hit out at owners after revealing their disappointment and anger at putting up stalls for the last time...
Blog Brownhills Bob 20 Jun Tesco development off?
Express & Star 19 Jun Market may be rescued
Express & Star 18 Jun Brownhills Market comes to an end
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Spook Erection Ltd Home page
Walsall Council Home page
Brownhills Market comes to an end
18 Jun 09 12:29
Brownhills Market comes to an end
Express & Star 18 June 09
The long-running Brownhills Market once one of the biggest in the Midlands will come to an end on Saturday. Talks between owners Spook Erection Ltd and Walsall Council broke down and the remaining stall holders, totalling around 50, will pack up for the last time this weekend...
Blog Brownhills Bob 7 May Market not quite doomed
Express & Star 6 May Brownhills Market traders reprieve
Spook Erection Ltd Home page
Walsall Council Home page
Brownhills Castings down but not out
04 Jun 09 23:34
Castings down but not out
Financial Times 4 June 09
Making heavy goods vehicles has been among the global sectors worst hit by the recession, which has led to a severe drop in demand for the output of Brownhills based Castings plc, causing it to cut its employees by a third around the end of last year...
Castings plc Home
Cut-price supermarket beer as pubs fail to get tax break
08 May 09 01:10
Cut-price supermarket beer as pubs fail to get tax break
Birmingham Post 8 May 09
Supermarkets will be allowed to continue selling cut-price beer despite warnings they helped force 500 West Midlands pubs out of business, Ministers have announced...
Birmingham Post 8 May Drinks firm Diego cheers markets
Morning Advertiser 7 May Admiral to sell 21 pubs
Blog Brownhills Bob 5 May Lost pubs of Brownhills
Birmingham Post 30 Apr Punch blames pub closures on taxes
Birmingham Post 28 Apr Beer sales down 8% is pub decline
The Mercury 22 Apr Alcohol & tobacco duty rise 2%
Birmingham Post 31 Mar End declining pub nos
Birmingham Mail 31 Mar 576 WM pubs close
Apprentice star is not bitter
06 May 09 12:17
Apprentice star is not bitter
Express & Star 6 May 09
Pelsall's Paula Jones, who was booted off BBC’s The Apprentice three weeks ago, actually left the pre-recorded show in October and says she, like everyone else, is waiting to find out who won...
BBC News 15 Apr Apprentice Paula fired after costs row
Daily Telegraph 15 Apr Paula's Blog - on being fired
Birmingham Post 17 Mar Apprentice from Walsall
Express & Star 17 Mar Will Paula be hired by Sir Alan?
Walsall Wood firm wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
20 Apr 09 01:46
Walsall Wood firm wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Birmingham Post 20 Apr 09
Fifteen West Midlands firms have received awards honouring trade, innovation and sustainable development.
Companies from Erdington, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Walsall - Systemcare Products - were among those to win a 2009 Queen’s Award for Enterprise...