Feature: Tour of Walsall by @garrynewman

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Tour of Walsall
Garry’s Blog 12 Mar 10
Walsall is on Google Street View now (along with 95% of the UK apparently). So I thought I’d give you a little tour of my town :) This is going to interest NO ONE...

Garry's Blog 23 Aug 09 Walsall: scrubbers and workers

BrownhillsBob 11 Mar 10 Google Streetview comes to Brownhills
Burntwood Blog 11 Mar 10 Burntwood now on Streetview
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11 Mar 10 Google Street View comes to Wednesfield
BBC News 19 Mar 09 Google Street View goes live
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Feature: Deerly beloved at Chasewater

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Deerly beloved at Chasewater
BrownhillsBob 9 Mar 10
A week ago, Brownhills Blog contributor, fellow Panoramio fan and top local history operative [Howmuch] went for a ride round Chasewater on a quiet Monday, armed as ever with his camera...

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Deer at Chasewater and Cuckoo Bank

Express & Star 5 Mar 10 Canal water pledge on work at Chasewater
BBC News 23 Feb 10 Low water levels threaten Black Country canal festival
Express & Star 11 Feb 10 Festivals sunk due to work on Chasewater reservoir
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Express & Star 10 Mar 10 Fish rescue at reservoir
Chasewater Dam 5 Mar 10 Stage one of the fish rescue gets underway
Lichfield Blog 1 Mar 10 No return for fish removed
Chasewater Dam 24 Feb 10 Will the fish be put back into Chasewater?
Chasewater Dam 22 Jan When will the fish rescue take place?
Mercury 22 Jan
Thousands of fish dead at Chasewater Pleasure Park
BrownhillsBob
18 Jan Dead fish at Chasewater
Chasewater Wildlife Group 16 Jan
Mass death of fish in Anglesey Basin

Chasewater Dam 11 Mar French rocket mystery
B’ham Mail 4 Mar 10 Bomb experts called out to Chasewater for a third time
Lichfield Blog 3 Mar 10 Warning to Chasewater walkers after Second World War bombs are found
Walsall Advertiser 25 Feb 10 Rushall dad finds Chasewater bomb
Chasewater Dam 24 Feb 10 Suspected World War II bomb found

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25 Feb 10 Draining away pictures
TonyM666 Flickr 11 Feb 10 Reservoir Dregs pictures

Lichfield Blog
25 Feb 10 Lichfield District Council could borrow money to repair Chasewater Dam
Chase Post 25 Feb 10 Town taxpayers to foot bill for Dam?
Chase Post 25 Feb 10
Liaison promise for work at the dam
BrownhillsBob 5 Feb 10 Reservoir dogged
Express & Star 4 Feb 10 War of words over Chasewater dam repair bill
Lichfield Blog 4 Feb 10 Government won’t “ignore the risks” on Chasewater dam
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3 Feb 10 No-one read the small-print on Chasewater dam – Burntwood councillor
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29 Jan Gordon Brown challenged over safety of Chasewater dam
Lichfield Mercury 28 Jan
Chasewater dam collapse could kill 'up to 80 people'
BrownhillsBob 22 Jan 10 Comment: Chasewater – the only victim seems to be the truth
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21 Jan Lichfield MP criticises Prime Minister’s ‘insensitive’ response
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21 Jan Michael Fabricant: away with the fairies?
Lichfield Mercury
20 Jan Leaking Chasewater dam could have 'catastrophic consequences', MP Fabricant claims

Chasewater Dam 1 Feb 10 Opening the valves to Chasewater’s dam
Lichfield Blog 1 Feb 10 Work begins to drain Chasewater ahead of dam safety work
YamYam 28 Dec
Chasewater being drained as New Year work starts




Great Wyrley horse maimings to be staged

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Great Wyrley horse maimings to be staged
Express & Star 6 Mar 10
A miscarriage of justice that made a Staffordshire village a headline name is to be re-enacted in the play Arthur and George at the Birmingham Rep. The play, running from March 19 to April 10, follows the case of George Edalji, a solicitor who, in 1903, was convicted of a series of macabre incidents including six horse slashings in Pit Meadow, Great Wyrley. He was later cleared of the crimes after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, investigated...
Stuart Williams 6 Mar 10 Elementary, my dear Meikle!
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The George Edalji Case