Apr
2007
Articles from 17th Apr 2007
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Time to build a better Birmingham
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
Birmingham should stand up to private developers and demand "quality, quality, quality" regeneration schemes, a leading expert on urban planning insisted. Read
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Business as usual as staff prepare for windfall
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
The boss of a Solihull company whose staff will receive windfalls after the firm was bought for £336 million insisted yesterday it was still business as usual. Read
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Russian wives find sanctuary in Wolverhampton
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
A women's refuge in the Black Country is changing the lives of Russian women whose lives are blighted by domestic violence. Read
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Petrol perks in road pricing
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
Motorists in the West Midlands could be lured to take part in voluntary road pricing tests with cheaper petrol bills. Read
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Campaign to reveal the real Elgar
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
Long stereotyped as the stiff mustachioed patriot who wrote Land of Hope and Glory, Sir Edward Elgar is the subject of a new campaign to reveal the altogether more complicated man behind the music. Read
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Cameron backs New Street station plan
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
Conservative leader David Cameron backed the redevelopment of New Street station as the Conservatives yesterday launched their "green" transport strategy. Read
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Birmingham man caught up in Virginia shooting
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
US police stand accused of having "blood on their hands" today as it emerged a Birmingham man escaped America’s largest mass shooting by hiding in his room. Read
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A third of Britons socialise online
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
More than one in three Britons now regularly log on to social networking websites, according to new research. Read
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Warwick Uni lands TV crown
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
They came, they placed fingers on the buzzers - and they conquered. Read
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Call for NHS to be independent
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
The NHS should be run like the BBC, free from the meddling of interfering politicians, an influential group of Birmingham academics claimed today. Read
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Rickshaw service launched in city
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
It may be a common sight in Beijing but on the streets of Birmingham yesterday cyclist Damien Hart and the city's new fleet of rickshaws was turning heads.The two pedal-powered people carriers have been introduced to the city by Black Country businessman Gary Wager.People can flag down the bikes as they pass or wait at designated points in the city. The rickshaw riders will carry two passengers at a time and although they are pedal-powered they also are equipped with a motor.The project is being funded by advertising on the side of the vehicles.Mr Wager said he thought his idea would work because the rickshaws were able to access the city's extensive pedestrian areas."Birmingham is the ideal city for something like this. It's quite spread out but it has a large pedestrianised area that the bikes can operate in. "We've got two riders who will be carrying people around the city centre for free.. The idea is that if someone comes out of the Bullring and needs to get to the station we can take them there for free."We call it 'advertising in motion', because it's like a moving billboard and it's so unusual people stop and stare." Read
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Whitby cleared over schizophrenia jibe
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has been cleared by the local government standards watchdog after he hurled a schizophrenia jibe at a political opponent. Read
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College gunman 'was a loner'
Apr 17 2007 | West Midlands News
The gunman responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre was identified today as a South Korean undergraduate student. Read
