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Turmeric Jones, 123 The Parade, Sutton Coldfield. 0121 355 4568.

MORE than three decades had passed since I last ventured into this room in the days when I had hair and hope.Read

Paul Fulford

Cops bus ops won’t drive out yobs

IT’S not widely known, but Hannibal Lecter has started to catch the Number 50 bus to his home in Druids Heath. Though perhaps it’s some other criminal of equally notorious and terrifying repute.Read

Safer travelling initiative doesn't wash with this bus user

IT’S not widely known, but Hannibal Lecter has started to catch the Number 50 bus to his home in Druids Heath. Though perhaps it’s some other criminal of equally notorious and terrifying repute.Read

It’s looking up for Vic

n IN HER latest underwear photo-shoot for Emporio Armani, Victoria Beckham can be seen climbing a ladder while wearing high heels. Victoria, pictured, posed for a series of shots taken by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.Read

New Sum Ye, B105 Arcadian, Hurst Street, Birmingham. 0121 622 1525

WHISPER it softly for Birmingham’s balti restaurants have many vociferous fans.Read

Paul Fulford

Home so sweet after airport agony

THERE are few certainties in life. But one thing is pretty clear.Read

Opus, Cornwall Street, Birmingham, 0121 200 2323

SMOKED eel’s a thing that divides the men from the boys – causing wrinkled noses among the squeamish and squeals of delight among those who know better.Read

World at Brum’s feet with swine flu!

APOCALYPTIC predictions are the stuff of the insane or the deluded. So I feel well qualified to wade in with one.Read

Urban Pie, The Bull Ring, Birmingham. 0121 665 6542

SOLITARY pursuits are notoriously embarrassing, especially when performed in public.Read

Paul Fulford

It should be our own choice to end this agony

WHILE the Birmingham-born conductor Edward Downes and his wife Joan lay dying peacefully in a Swiss centre that assists suicides, a friend was tending a young relative who was approaching an agonising and undignified death.Read

The Spice Exchange, 1845 Pershore Road, Cotteridge, Birmingham. 0121 458 5707

THE menu didn’t mince its words when it came to describing the onion bhaji on offer at the Spice Exchange.Read

Paul Fulford

For whom does the ringtone toll?

THERE’S a new ritual in America of burying the dead with their mobile phones in their coffins, ear-pieces clipped to their unhearing lug holes, so that loved ones can call them.Read

City Cafe, City Inn, Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 643 1003

SOMETIMES a dish of apparent simplicity can be a thing of great beauty.Read

Wagamama, 6 The Bullring, Birmingham. 0121 633 3033.

SQUID’S an unforgiving beast. Cook it a moment too long and its chewier than munching on a tennis ball with rubber dentures.Read

La Tasca, Regency Wharf, Broad Street, Birmingham. 643 9888.

IN those long ago days of my youth, I bought an avocado having heard that they were a delicacy.Read

Wonderful city of water and light

SOME cities are defined by the mountains that surround them or the work that is done there. Others by a palpable sense of history or perhaps a specific event.Read

Karren Brady: Protect press whistleblowers

IT IS no secret that the provincial press is battling for survival, trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea, the devil being the economic slump and the deep blue sea the internet revolution.Read

Major Samuel Edgar: 'Service Above Self'

THIS weekend more than 18,000 members of Rotary Clubs from all over the world will gather in Birmingham for the 100th Rotary International Convention.Read

Piquant, 18 St Mary’s Row, Moseley. 0121 249 1216

AS a business plan, opening a curry house in Moseley might seem as likely a winner as launching a charity fund for hard-up MPs.Read