The Government has announced more post office closures, and in Birmingham alone there are 26 branches that face closure, despite the fact that many of them are in the midst of close-knit neighbourhoo...

Although Tesco officially does not yet have the planning decision on its development of a 72,334 sq ft superstore in Stirchley, work has begun demolishing the old warehouses which will make up part of...

Birmingham always seems to have a range of supermarket developments on the go at any one time... so many that it is difficult for us to keep up with them. Since the last edition of the newsletter, t...

We are lucky enough to celebrate another farmers' market, this time at Birmingham University, joining the ever growing list of farmers' markets in the Birmingham area. Birmingham University is the fi...

Yet again we have a supermarket sniffing around the Birmingham area and the City Council seem quite open to their advances. ASDA does not yet have any stores south of the city and has had a bus tourin...

This month's speaker event was on organic food and farming, a subject close to my heart. Recently, farming has had bad UK press due to health scares like BSE and the foot and mouth epidemics, and also...