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Keth Povall Sturdy Soapbox 3 Feb 11
A few months ago, I had good reason to slag Illy off (the brand of coffee). It’s one of the most expensive you’ll find on the supermarket shelves and proved to be one of the biggest disappointments of my journey of coffee discovery.
This morning on QVC, they had some guy on selling Illy coffee machines (which looks nice I confess). The guy was a trained barrister (you know, coffee expert) and he had someone call in who had spotted he’d been demonstrating with two machines, using one to heat the milk with steam and the other for coffee…
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Matt Lloyd B'ham Mail 7 Dec 10
A pensioner has been electronically tagged after poisoning almost 50 police officers as they battled to keep order on Birmingham’s streets.
Muriel Morris was hit with the punishment after she served up contaminated chicken and tuna sandwiches to officers policing an English Defence League demonstration.
Some were taken to hospital feeling as if they were going to die, Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard…
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Express & Star 17 Nov 10
A Walsall family is celebrating sweet success after twin girls and their mother all beat off international competition to pick up awards at a suger craft contest.
Full-time mother Tracy Conod won a gold award in the novice class for her novelty cake of a desert island. Her twin 10-year-old girls Hannah and Laurice won first and second places in the under 14 category respectively at the Cake International competition at the NEC in Birmingham…
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Express & Star 31 Oct 10
Fruit trees being planted at Wallsall Arboretum will be used to create juice for thousands of school pupils.
Apple, pear and plum trees arriving at Walsall Arboretum Extension later this year will be harvested and their juices distributed to schools across the borough. The 4,000 trees will be planted in the park by tree wardens, residents and pupils in December as part of a project to create an “agroforest” at the site…
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The Stymaster Pig Blog 30 Oct 10
We’ve been off to Lichfield again: a visit necessitated by the need to visit a la-di-dah supermarket, the car park of which must have the highest density of unnecessary ‘lifestyle’ 4x4s outside Chelsea.
There’s a lot to like about Lichfield: the individual shops, the relative absence of scumbags, the pubs, the waiting staff with a sense of humour. There’s a few downsides…
Feature
CommonPeople 22 Oct 10
This week is National Baking Week and Pelsall’s Village Cafe has found the ideal cupcake recipe that can be made during the school holidays – just in time for Halloween.
These cupcakes are chocolatey and decorated with pumpkins and spiders’ webs. And as the recipe makes 22, there are plenty for sharing with friends…
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Alison Dayani B'ham Mail 15 Oct 10
‘Killer’ bean sprouts that have already claimed at least one life have been making people ill across the Midlands, health protection chiefs revealed.
Microbiologists say that 18 cases of bean sprouts contaminated with salmonella bareilly have been reported in the region so far.
Figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show 169 cases nationwide with a cluster in the Midlands…
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BrownhillsBob 12 Oct 10
Look, this isn’t nice, I know, but it has to be said. Some scally out there is concealing a body, and no good will come of it.
Whilst taking a spin on a fine Sunday afternoon, I noted with some surprise, and great sadness, that a young red deer hind had been apparently struck by a vehicle in Coppice Lane, Brownhills. The body had been dragged to the side of the lane just before the corner where the lane joins Coppice Side, adjacent to the former Leigh Interests landfill site. As soon as I could, I reported the location of the carcass in a fixmystreet report, which alerted Walsall Council to come and collect it. The dead creature was already beginning to swell and would soon present an unpleasant health hazard if not dealt with…
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Linda Strange Sutton Observer 24 Sep 10
A Streetly garden centre owner is digging in to reduce his food miles – by creating his own orchard.
Peter Beharrell is planting apples, plums, greengages and damson trees on a one-acre site next to Pacific Nurseries on Chester Road. He will harvest the fruit for home-made pies to be sold in his new farm shop…
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Express & Star 10 Aug 10
Councils across the West Midlands have spent tens of thousands of pounds treating guests to buffets with sandwiches, biscuits, coffee, tea and cake, the Express & Star can reveal.
Walsall Council topped the spending chart with an £84,769 bill between June last year and May this year, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed…