Mar
2009
Articles from 6th Mar 2009
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£200m Digbeth tower to raise green energy standards
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A landmark £200 million tower block development earmarked for Digbeth will set a new standard in green energy efficient building for the city. Read
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West Midlands select committee snubbed by opposition MPs
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
The West Midlands’ official Commons committee is to hold its first meeting next week despite a boycott by opposition MPs. Read
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Midland museum hosts display of Post Office wartime role
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A Midland museum is the first to host a touring exhibition exploring the vital role of the Post Office in the First World War. Read
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Alcohol abuse puts 35,000 West Midlands OAPs in hospital
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
More than 90 pensioners are hospitalised due to alcohol in the West Midlands every day, the Department of Health has revealed. Read
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Plan for new rail station at Bromsgrove goes for DfT approval
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A £13million improvement to rail links in Worcestershire and Warwickshire has been put forward to the Government for approval. Read
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Midlands universities handed £1.6bn in research funding
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
Midland universities are celebrating after getting a bumper crop of £1.6billion in research funding from the Government. Read
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Missing Birmingham drug dealer hands himself in
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A convicted drug dealer who failed to turn up at court has handed himself into police to serve a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Read
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Birmingham businessman shot in street
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A Birmingham businessman was shot in the street in front of his teenage son as he arrived home from work. Read
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Crufts criticises RSPCA over 'unfair' changes to rules
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
The organisers of Crufts have criticised the RSPCA and described the sudden changes in standards forced upon dog breeders for this year’s show as “unfair”. Read
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Warwickshire army hero awarded posthumous second George Medal
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A Warwickshire army bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan while trying to defuse a mine became one of the UK’s most decorated soldiers today. Read
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Nurse attacked by carjackers at Solihull Hospital
Mar 06 2009 | West Midlands News
A Midland hospital is to review security after a nurse was threatened by masked carjackers as she left work. Read
