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Once again we are into a phoney “consultation” period concerning the  future of planning in this concrete metropolitan borough. Sandwell’s planning department has always been bent, from elected members doing favours for their offspring to buy cheap land, to multiple … Continue reading →

  If there was any way in which this dire company could blame its staff for personal injury they would try it, and unfortunately, with the right judge, they could probably buy the outcome of any litigation. This piece from … Continue reading →

  The landscape of John’s Lane leading to Temple Way has changed over the last couple of years. Firstly the boundary with John’s Lane appears to have  visually changed. Take a look at these bing streetview images from 2013. I’m … Continue reading →

  So you thought that you were having a bad day? Spare a thought for this poor bastard from history! This misadventure involves a case of phossy jaw and early attempts to investigate the unsafe practices being undertaken at scumbag … Continue reading →

  Ten years ago this blog set out to tell the real story of Rattlechain lagoon and its murky history, a history protected by authority and Britain’s dirty wartime past. It set out to show how industrial pollution affects the … Continue reading →

Are you lucky enough to live in the 1km HSE consultation zone? HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, except if you worked for Albright and Wilson or Rhodia, in which case UP YER BUM!! Yes it’s that time of year when Solvay … Continue reading →

    Suffer the little children at Christmas- especially if they were from the British Empire where they were certainly of less value and had less protection. This misadventure from Pakistan is told in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) … Continue reading →

  This is the second of three posts concerning this abandoned former waste disposal lake in Oldbury, the first of which can be read HERE. It also serves as a warning about the so called “brownfield” sites promoted by certain … Continue reading →

OPINION Politicians it seems have no real imagination except “reinventing” old schemes that they think the public have forgotten.  Their “growth” agenda using public cash strangely seems tied to private business. One of the worst examples of this is Andy … Continue reading →

Another instance of parental neglect combined with the dangers of phosphorus was reported in The Loughborough Echo of 22nd August 1913.  It is revealed that two brothers, one aged ten and the other twelve had been playing with a crude but … Continue reading →