Sandwell Liberal Democrats are calling on the Government to ban bonuses for Severn Trent Water after revealing they paid their company executives eye-watering bonuses, despite failing to fix leaking pipes ahead of this summer’s drought. Water company bosses from Severn Trent Water were awarded £5,566,500 in bonuses despite companies leaking billions of litres of water […]

Thank you to everyone who voted this May. And particular thanks to those of you who chose to support local Liberal Democrat candidates.Sandwell remains controlled by the Labour Party. We very much hope that they will take opportunities to work with the Commissioners the Government have sent in.Nationally the Liberal Democrats were successful, gaining the […]

Sad to see our Labour Councillors and Conservative MP playing politics with funding for local politics. The Council has never been good at applying for funding, and our Councillors often had to encourage them to apply for it. This resulted in funds for deprived areas going to parts of Hamstead and the Yew Tree estate, […]

A lot of discussion on Sunday’s politics programmes. And it has been a backdrop issue to discussion of the dreadful murder of the MP. I found Lisa Nandy and Gordon Brown talked a lot of sense. If their voices are listened to, then there is a chance that the outcome will be sensible. The world […]

West Midlands primary school wins appeal against academy statusThe current situation brings back memories of just how messy the reduction of education to a single junior school serving the whole of Yew Tree and Tamebridge was. Way before the Academy issue. It did leave the whole area badly provided. And an uphill struggle, not helped […]

Transport for West Midlands is proposing some changes to the 424 bus service, still affectionately known as the “Sadie bus”. The main change for Great Barr is that will be split into two routes to eliminate the existing routes tendency to double back on itself. A result of this is that the route that serves […]

Recently found this lovely picture of Martyn with Ian Garrett.

The local Police team had to cancel the planned Speed Watch session in Hamstead, as they were busy enforcing the new lockdown rules. This had been announced on our Facebook page. I contacted the campaigners by phone to let them know, and the police have promised to arrange a new session.

Nice to be back home and involved with more members and supporters, Sadie.

We have added a new page about Sadie’s year as Mayor. You should find it in the list of Pages, but can also find it here, or Mayor Sadie in the list of Pages. She was the first LibDem Mayor of Sandwell, and we recently found a stash of photos that we used to illustrate […]