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#365DaysOfBiking- May 17th - Interesting to note that the Wakeboarding company who... May 18, 2013
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- May 16th - Spring is here, too, at the verges, hedgerows and... May 17, 2013
- May 16th - A day without rain, for me at least, and quite... May 17, 2013
- May 15th - It was a dreadful commute on the way to the station... May 15, 2013
- May 15th - Today, I went to Redditch for the first time in more... May 15, 2013
- May 14th - Shire Oak Hill is a very old adversary. There’s... May 14, 2013
- May 14th - Grim ride home. The morning wasn’t bad, but... May 14, 2013
- May 13th - But my, the skies did look black. For most of the... May 13, 2013
- May 13th - Not a great day. Over to Telford early, then back to... May 13, 2013
- May 12th - I have a horrid feeling that the three glorious days... May 12, 2013
- May 12th - Not often I see this. In fields just to the east of... May 12, 2013
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Tag Archives: Gun plagued
Shot down
On Friday, 30th July 2010, six days after publishing an alarmist, flawed and shoddy scare story about Lichfield Road in Brownhills being ‘gun-plagued’, subsequently proven utterly wrong by West Midlands Police, the Walsall edition of the Express & Star contained this … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Express & Star, Followups, It makes me mad!, Just plain daft, Local media, Shared media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged @ziksby, alarmist, Apology, Brownhills, correction, CS cannister, Elizabeth Joyce, Express & Star, Firearms crime, FOI, freedom of information, Gun crime, Gun plagued, Lichfield Road, Local media, local reporting, Roger Jones, Shire Oak, Superintendent Keith Fraser, The YamYam, transparency, Twitter, Walsall
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West Midlands Police respond to ‘Alarmist’ gun crime story
This morning, 29th July 2010, regular reader and helpful sort Roger Jones – @ziksby on twatter – supplied this comment in response to my ‘Shot in the foot‘ post, which was attempting to locate the truth behind an unpleasant, sensationalist … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Express & Star, Followups, It makes me mad!, Just plain daft, Local media, Shared media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged @ziksby, alarmist, Brownhills, CS cannister, Elizabeth Joyce, Express & Star, Firearms crime, FOI, freedom of information, Gun crime, Gun plagued, Lichfield Road, Local media, local reporting, Roger Jones, Shire Oak, Superintendent Keith Fraser, The YamYam, transparency, Twitter, Walsall
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Shot in the foot
On Saturday, 24th July 2010, the Walsall Edition of the Express & Star ran a story that really annoyed me. The story also appeared online at the same time – you can see a screenshot of the story below in … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Express & Star, It makes me mad!, Just plain daft, Local media, Shared media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged alarmist, Brownhills, Elizabeth Joyce, Express & Star, Firearms crime, FOI, freedom of information, Gun crime, Gun plagued, Lichfield Road, Local media, local reporting, Shire Oak, The YamYam, transparency, Twitter, Walsall
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