Jun
2009
Articles from 9th Jun 2009
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City education boss reveals plans to improve caring services
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
Social workers will spend more time helping vulnerable children and less time sitting in front of a computer under an improvement plan for Birmingham’s caring services. Read
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Sleeping Beauty to be Hippodrome’s pantomime production this year
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
Birmingham is set for another record-breaking pantomime. Read
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City beating government CO2 target
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
Birmingham is outstripping Government targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to a new generation of green-aware households. Read
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Two more Handsworth schools on swine flu alert
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
Another school in the Handsworth area of Birmingham is set to close after four cases of swine flu were confirmed. Read
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Sacked vicar may have rights to stay in vicarage, court told
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
A West Bromwich vicar sacked for having an affair with a parishioner may have rights to the vicarage he refuses to leave, a court heard today. Read
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Kings Heath medics pushed to the limit treating soldiers in Afghanistan
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
As combat operations in Helmand Province increase this summer, the British hospital at Camp Bastion will be pushed to its limits. Reporter Paul Bradley joined Kings Heath medics to see first hand what sort of treatment patients are receiving Read
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Man's 'moment of stupidity' led to his own son's death
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
A father whose moment of stupidity led to the tragic death of his young son, who died after being shot in the head with an air rifle pellet at his Birmingham home, has been shown mercy by a judge. Read
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Bid to evict sacked West Bromwich vicar
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
A vicar sacked for having an affair but refusing to leave his church-owned home is being taken to court by the Church of England. Read
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Staffordshire's newly-elected Tories refuse to budge over school plans
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
Council leaders in Staffordshire have refused to abandon a planned reorganisation of secondary schools in Tamworth despite a change of political control and a last-minute plea from teaching unions. Read
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Happy Winson Green twins Edna Robinson and Kitty Dodwell reach 90
Jun 09 2009 | West Midlands News
From spotting German bombers from the rooftop of a Birmingham brewery to sharing a wedding day, twin sisters Edna Robinson and Kitty Dodwell have experienced a lot together in 90 years. Read
