Kraft called before MPs

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.

Neighbourhood tasked to tackle increasing crime

The officers covering the Bournville South Area The Police are holding public meetings in Bournville next week to offer residents advice and support about crime issues as well as giving out crime reduction materials. The meetings, which take place on the 25th and 26th February, are one of a series of ways the police engage [...]

Bournville Maypole – your chance to get involved

Bournville Village Council have written to us to give advanced news of this year’s Village Festival which takes place on Sunday 26th June from 2pm. We’ll have more on that in a future posting but in the meantime there’s a need for children to volunteer to be part of the Maypole which is the centrepiece [...]

Harriers face relegation battle

Bournville Harriers running club are facing relegation from the region’s top cross-country league this weekend as their men’s team go into the final race of the season second from bottom with an almost insurmountable gap between them and safety.

Another Cadbury legacy under threat

Coming soon after Kraft’s takeover there’s another legacy of the Cadbury family under threat after the headteacher of Selly Oak Nursery School accused Birmingham City Council, and Councillor Les Lawrence in particular, of dragging its feet over the future of the nursery, which was set up with help from the Cadbury family over 100 years [...]

Pavilion Café open for longer

News reaches us that the café at Rowheath Pavilion will now be open six days a week staring next week. Lynda Robinson from Together in Mission who are based at the Pavilion said:

The Pavilion Community Café will be opening on a Wednesday as from the 10th February. We are already open 5 days per week, this will make it six.

Cadbury takeover – local reaction

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.

Cadbury takeover – live

Ahead of the takeover deadline for Cadbury at 1pm we’ve set up a live blog to help guide you through the last couple of hours of Cadbury being indpendent. Below we’ll offer some live commentary and bring you newsfeeds from across the globe. We’ll be inputting live at midday today. Cadbury Takeover

Catch the bus to support Cadbury

The Unite union are organising a bus trip to lobby the government and MPs as part of their campaign to protect jobs and investment at Cadbury’s Bournville factory and other their other UK facilities. Tomorrow is the day that a majority of shareholders are likely to agree to Kraft’s takeover. Unite fear that the debt [...]