Moseley in Gloom

Moseley in Gloom

We're sad to say that the mood in Moseley has turned sour after the recent shock expulsion from the national In Bloom competition. For many years Moseley, and in many ways all of us, have been defined by our ability to have hanging baskets that are marginally better...

Cycle Path

Cycle Path

Everyone knows that cycling is literally the most dangerous activity you can do in Moseley (unless your family sends you to live in one of those Care Homes off Reddings Road). Cyclists take their lives in the hands, risking getting knocked on the bonce by the punchy...

Highbury Corner

Highbury Corner

It probably not the most popular pub in Moseley, it might  not even actually be in Moseley, but the Highbury is certainly large and it's just re-opened. If you ask many people around and about Moseley they'll probably tell you they've never bothered to go there and...

Queensbridge: Theatre of Death

Queensbridge: Theatre of Death

As a new school year starts many of Birmingham's younger residents will be setting off for another year of the ritual humiliation and emotional scarring that is secondary education in the UK today. This isn't the case in Moseley. Pupils at Queensbridge School are in...

Where Are Our Wardens?

Where Are Our Wardens?

Some of our more eager eyed residents will have noticed there is a void in the centre of Moseley these days. That's because our street wardens have vanished. For over ten years both of our street wardens have been a fixture in the centre of Moseley cheerily telling...

Eurocratic Oaf

Eurocratic Oaf

Moseley is rarely concerned by the machinations of the European Superstate but this week it was rocked by an attempt by the European Court  to interfere with a much loved cultural icon. It has come to the attention of those bureaucrats in Brussels that local...

Sultans of Swing

Sultans of Swing

In a twist that nobody was expecting, it appears that the transformation of the Jug of Ale into the Tipu Sultan (fine dining) was not an elaborate tax fraud. After what is many many years of building it is now set to welcome diners to a paradise of authentic Asian...

Wait For It

Wait For It

With the Bank holiday approaching this weekend, police have warned revellers to expect lengthy delays in the Fighting Cocks. This is likely to result from their world renowned inability to serve customers and the traditional increase in customers that result from an...

First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit

It will come as some relief to Moseley residents to hear that the most recent meeting of the Kings Heath Forum agreed an ambitious programme of aid for their impoverished neighbours in B13.   As Kings Heath gets national recognition for its resurgence they have...