We talk to a group of neighbours in Balsall Heath in Birmingham who work unpaid to keep their local police station open, hear from listeners to the Grassroots Channel and get a tiny taste of a Little Britain.
Links:
Goosemore Lane Allotments
Paul Hopkins Podcast
Balsall Heath Forum
[...] Sue Beardsmore talks to Mary Harvey and Sheila Barker of the Witton Lodge Community Association. Also of interest will be this pdf briefing on neighbourhood policing plus earlier programmes on the volunteers running their local police station and how demolition in Perry Common planted the power in the hands of the people. [...]
[...] This is the most recent in a number of programmes on the channel about the link between policing, and community including the residents who run their own police station, patrol their own streets, those who had the courage to confront pimps and prostitution and how young people act as agents for safer streets. [...]
[...] 3. I am the Grass Now. The neighbours from Balsall Heath who volunteer to keep open Edward Road Police Station. [...]