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The Birmingham City Council shadow cabinet member for parks visited Small Heath Park today (August 5) to inspect an environmental catastrophe taking place in the beauty spot’s lake, as an alarming number of dead birds and fish have been distressing local residents. Cllr Deirdre Alden (Con, Edgbaston) visited Small Heath Park to inspect the lake after reading reports about…
Residents are demanding immediate action to save the wildlife that inhabits the lake in Small Heath Park after another dead duck was seen floating in the ‘filthy’ water on Saturday (31 July). Small Heath residents took to social media to vent their anger at the lack of action by authorities after pictures emerged showing another…
Residents in Birmingham have been forced to clear up the rotting carcasses of dead geese from a local park after the council failed to remove the decomposing animals, they claim. A resourceful group of volunteers cleared up dead geese from the mucky lake in Small Heath Park after the dead waterfowl were discovered by shocked park visitors who then…
There has been shock and growing anger from Birmingham residents after dead geese were discovered floating in a “filthy” lake inside Small Heath Park over the weekend. A visitor to the park was so disturbed by the scene, she photographed the dead geese which were floating in the once famous boating lake on Sunday afternoon, and posted…
The Small Heath community were left in a state of shock yesterday as emergency service crews arrived in Small Heath Park after reports that ‘a dead body had been dumped’ in the lake. Officers from West Midlands Police, including Incident Support teams and a West Midlands Ambulance crew, were at Small Heath Park as specialist…