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Front page
Planning and roads
Who is new on the high street
The back page: lost, found, for sale

The Latest

October issue

A red brick corner building with arched shop windows and a pickup truck parked outside.

Front page · 4 min

The old cinema on Station Road has a buyer, and she wants to show films again

Ruth Aziz ran a mobile cinema from a van for nine years. Now she has the keys to a building that has been dark since 1998.

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Letters · 2 min

"Please stop parking on the corner of Ash Grove"

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Young reporters · 3 min

Year 6 counted every tree on Elm Road. There are 212.

Planning and Roads

Every planning application in Elm Vale, in plain English, with a little map. We do not tell you what to think about them; we tell you what they are and when the deadline is to have your say.

This month: a loft on Birch Lane, six flats where the garage was, and a new crossing outside the school.

The council's consultation on the school crossing closes on 30 October.

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On Our Street

A blue clapboard house with a white porch behind a neat front lawn.

Neighbours

The blue house on Larch Avenue turns a hundred

Four families have lived in it. We found three of them.

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Walks

Elm Vale end to end in forty minutes

A route with two benches, one café and no main roads.

A residential street of colourful terraced houses with cars parked along it.

History

Why Hazel Street is painted five colours

It started with a bet in 1974 and a tin of yellow paint.

Before You Write to Us

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What we print

News, letters, events, small ads. If it happened in Elm Vale or matters to people here, we want it.

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What we don't

Anonymous letters, adverts for national chains, and anything about a neighbour they would not want read aloud.

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The deadline

The 20th of the month, at the library desk or through the door of 14 Elm Parade. Small ads cost £3.