Huge nursery site sell-off by ‘shambolic’ council labelled a 'tragedy'

Huge nursery site sell-off by ‘shambolic’ council labelled a 'tragedy'

A plan by Birmingham City Council to sell its Coleshill Road garden nursery site has been strongly criticised by the councillor for the area, Richard Parkin

Middlewood Nature Nursery says it’s being forced to close. The council disagrees. What’s going on?

Daisy Francis, 30, is a mum on a mission — a mission to save the unusual nursery that has been so wonderful for her daughter. Only last week, she and other parents with children at Middlewood Nature Nursery learned that it will close forever on 9 May, leaving them scrambling to find alternative childcare for almost 40 children at incredibly short notice. Many have already accepted that this will be impossible; one mum tells me she will have to t…