Tag Archives: Local media

Charting an unseen place…

Posted on February 10, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

1902, Second Edition Ordnance Survey map, of Stonnall, 1:10000 scale. Click the image to download the high-quality PDF. It’s with great thanks that I can share the above map with the readers of The Brownhills Blog – found in a … Continue reading →

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Shot down

Posted on August 1, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

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 →

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West Midlands Police respond to ‘Alarmist’ gun crime story

Posted on July 29, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

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 →

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Shot in the foot

Posted on July 28, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

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 →

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No self interest there, then…

Posted on March 5, 2010 by BrownhillsBob

I was saddened to see today that a local newspaper for the Humberside area – The Hull Daily Mail – seems to have decided to launch a character assassination based hatchet job on the webmaster of a competing, free local … Continue reading →

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