The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning construction firms to check the safety of gas flues, following roofing work, after the occupants of 11 bungalows in Birmingham were put at risk of carbon monoxide entering their loft spaces.
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The planned £600 million refurbishment of New Street Station is “cosmetic” and the Government needs to consider alternatives now, a hard-hitting Commons inquiry has warned.
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An emergency law allowing the use of anonymous evidence, such as the testimony used to convict the killers of Birmingham teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, in court will come into force today
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The chances of a 35-storey skyscraper being built at the heart of Birmingham’s business district in Colmore Row have taken a knock after the city’s Civic Society announced a change of heart and said it was now opposed to the “over-ambitious” £160 million plan.
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A second day of widespread disruption to schools, libraries, refuse collection and other council services was under way today in what union leaders hailed as the biggest industrial shutdown since the winter of discontent.
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The parents of 22-year-old Lindsay Ann Hawker, who was murdered in Japan last year, will help launch a fund to support other families who suffer the agony of having a loved one go missing abroad.
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