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to experience on a warm end- of-summer’s evening, at no later than 6pm, the sights and smells of thick, white, acrid smoke (pictured below) from materials being burnt with no thought or considera- tion for those in the surrounding houses and gardens. This relic of old Cofton Hackett
deserves to be exactly that, a relic of the past. Any young children out playing, anyone with asthma or breathing difficulties stood no
WHERE’S VINNY?
IF YOU scoured the pages of your September magazine in vain, there’s no need to book a trip to Specsavers just yet. . . Vinny wasn’t there! The cheeky hedge- hog had sneaked into the editor’s suitcase for a week in Bulgaria instead of playing hide-and-seek. So, in this October issue, there will be two chances to win a prize, with Vinny hiding in two places in the magazine (the one shown above is just a guide). We’ll be making two prize
chance from the clogging disgust- ing smoke being inflicted on all those around. Too cheap to pay for a green
waste bin, perhaps? Too selfish to think of others and wait till later in the year, for sure. Cofton Hackett resident
Barnt Green is
blooming Dear Editor – Thank you to our parish council for our lovely flow- ers in Barnt Green this summer; the plants came from Where Next and Gill [parish clerk] has used her dead-heading skills as well as organising the watering. They have been excellent and still are! Rachel Banner Barnt Green
Links to poignant
wartime tale Dear Editor – Your online article [originally published in July 2011] about the tragic crash of the wartime Blenheim aircraft was very interesting.
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draws – if you enter by midnight on October 9, you’ll go into the first draw, so that we can get the winner’s picture into the Novem- ber magazine. Everyone who enters after this date, up until midnight on the 18th, will go into the second draw. To enter, tell us where one or
both Vinnies are hiding via phone, email or post – please include your contact details, especially if leaving a voicemail message. We’ll let you know if you’ve won and you can collect your Mini Vinny from our office – and pose for a photo with your prize!
I’ve now lived in Kinver for about 18 months, just a short (but steep) walk from the church of St Peter’s. I often walk up there but today
I visited the graves of Pilot Officer Shirlaw and his Observer, Pilot Officer Dugdale. I thought it very poignant that they are interred side by side with the two head- stones joined as one. It’s a beautiful quiet spot up
there and from just across the little lane to the main churchyard, there are magnificent views look- ing over Kinver and the surround- ing countryside. Many years ago I lived in Bir- mingham, for a while in North- field, and am very familiar with
MEANWHILE, Barnt Green sisters Alice and Lucy Marwick, aged
eight and six, were the winners of the previous month’s competition.
the areas you represent, but for well over 50 years I’ve lived in West Wiltshire, about seven miles from the city of Bath. I’ve returned to the West Mid-
lands, not without some trepida- tion at first, but now I don’t regret the move at all. David West, via email
Happy birthday
to you! Dear Editor – Many congratula- tions on 20 years of The Village! Loads of people love it and it’s the most popular publication in my waiting room.
Mark Sammons Alvechurch Chiropractic Clinic
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