Mar
2010
Articles from 25th Mar 2010
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Birmingham urged to make more of its rich heritage in City Of Culture bid
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Birmingham should be more proud of its heritage and place historic gems such as the Jewellery Quarter and Back to Back Houses at the centre of the City of Culture bid. Read
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Education: Banishing suspicions of home education
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Thousands of children each year are taken out of school to be educated at home with little contact with local authorities. Now the Government is calling for more intervention from councils. Kat Keogh looks at the issues. Read
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Birmingham roads to benefit from £2.7bn transformation plan
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
A £2.7 billion plan to transform all of Birmingham’s roads and pavements has finally won Government approval. Read
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Public donations key to West Midlands keeping the Staffordshire Hoard
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
An unprecedented £900,000 of public donations, one of the largest responses ever to a heritage appeal, has helped save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands. Read
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Head of £30m Warwickshire academy ‘left old school in limbo’
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
The new headteacher of a controversial £30 million academy for 1,200 pupils in Warwickshire had left his former school in confusion, according to a damning Ofsted report. Read
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Birmingham to host Tory conference in 2012
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Birmingham is to host the Tory party conference in 2012, providing a major economic boost for the city. Read
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Birmingham regeneration job vacancy left by Clive Dutton still not filled
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
ATTEMPTS to fill the top vacancy left by former Birmingham regeneration director Clive Dutton have failed so far after none of the candidates shortlisted for one of the biggest local authority jobs in the country were deemed good enough. Read
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Gordon Brown: We will listen to concerns over high speed but will press ahead
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
The Government is listening to the concerns of residents and small business owners whose properties could be demolished to make way for high speed trains, Gordon brown has pledged. Read
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Barrister standing for BNP leaves Birmingham Chambers
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
A barrister who is standing in the General Election as a BNP candidate has resigned from his Birmingham chambers. Read
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West Mercia Police were "too busy" to arrest robber who went on to murder postmaster's son
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Police could have arrested the killer of postmaster’s son Craig Hodson-Walker six months before his brutal murder, a report disclosed today. Read
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MI6 to target Birmingham's black and Asian communities in new recruitment drive
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
We don’t have a garage full of Aston Martin cars, we have to do paperwork and I can’t disappear abroad for months and ignore calls from the boss.” Read
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Top Birmingham barrister Robert Grierson to stand for BNP
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
A practising Birmingham barrister is set to stand in the forthcoming General Election for the British National Party. Read
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Searches continue in Alstom corruption probe
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Investigators have spent a second day searching two offices of the engineering firm Alstom as part of a corruption inquiry. Read
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New Tesco supermarket would turn Moseley into an "urban nightmare"
Mar 25 2010 | West Midlands News
Plans for a Tesco supermarket will turn Moseley into an ‘urban nightmare’ and lead to independently-owned businesses going bust, residents have claimed. Read
