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Stirchley Community Market – Tuesday 27th July

Our neighbours in Stirchley have an exciting new initiative that we thought worth sharing with you:

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Bournville – Picture Imperfect

UPDATE: PICTURE CHANGED. Bournville’s a beautiful place. It has not one but two conservation areas with listed buildings and a historic chocolate factory. It is possibly the nicest place to live in the UK. What a shame then that the council represent Bournville’s beauty by using use the worst ever photograph of Bournville on its [...]

Cadbury Takeover:

• Senior management from Kraft have agreed to meet with a newly established community group from Bournville set up to ensure the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft is a positive development for the Bournville community. (more...) #
• The subject of Kraft's takeover of Cadbury is set to become centre stage once again when the Business Innovation and Skills Parliamentary Committee holds an evidence session on Tuesday 16 March at which senior Kraft personnel are expected to appear. (more...) #
• At 4.50pm today Kraft announced to the Stock Exchange that their offer to buyout Cadbury had been accepted by 71.7% of the shareholders. At the same time bournvillevillage.com made its way to Bournville Green to get some reaction from local businesses. (more...) #
• The BBC have written to us to draw attention to their coverage of the Cadbury takeover story. As they were good enough to link to our coverage we're happy to return the favour: (more...) #
• A group of Cadbury workers made their feeling known about the takeover of Cadbury today by staging a protest on Bournville Village Green. (more...) #