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Tailor George Saunders picks up needle and thread again for history project

RETIRED tailor George Saunders is getting out his needle and thread again - but this time it’s to star in part of a unique history project which charts the hardship many migrant workers faced as they settled in Birmingham. Read

'Frogeye' feast for landmark

IT was the biggest party on record to celebrate the 50th birthday of a baby sports car that represented all the excitement and glamour of swinging sixties Britain.Read

Birmingham's first urban art bar

TWO pints and a print please! That's what customers can buy at Birmingham's first urban art bar where limited edition screen prints line the walls.Read

Centre wows Jamaican prime ministers

A ONE-stop shop to help Birmingham people develop their potential impressed a premier so much he is to launch a similar scheme in Jamaica. Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, made a whistle stop tour of the Pertemps People Development Group, in Newtown.Read

Milestone birthday for Jewish Herman

HE’S been a survivor against all odds all his life. But Herman Wessel has just passed another milestone in his fascinating life – his 100th birthday.Read

Relative of JRR Tolkein boosts regeneration project

A RELATIVE of one of Birmingham's most famous sons has stepped in to boost one of the city's biggest regeneration projects.Read

Staff battle to save jobs

PEOPLE packed a public meeting in Birmingham to hear how a centre which houses asylum seekers is fighting to save 135 staff jobs.Read

16 youngsters pick up education awards

Sixteen young people in Birmingham have become the second group to win Letisha & Charlene Education Awards, in memory of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis. POPPY BRADY caught up with them as they were presented with certificates for their success.Read

Fears over asylum seeker's death

FRIENDS fear a woman found dead at her Birmingham home may have starved herself to death over fears she was going to be deported to her home country.Read

10 year old twins become Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do

THE TABLES are turned at a Birmingham school where the teachers have to call twins Magnus and Conrad Yap 'Sir'.Read

Dunkirk spirit of 1940s Brum

BIRMINGHAM families have a chance to sit in an air raid shelter, hear 1940s music and imagine what life was like for people in the city fighting for survival during the Second World War.Read

New life for Brum beat HQ

IT'S been rocking and rolling for five decades and now the future sounds good for Birmingham's very own house of music.Read

Pensioner takes on council over cherry tree

BATTLING Gladys Jones is taking on the might of Birmingham City Council single handedly after she called one of their senior tree officers a "vandal" for chopping down a flowering cherry tree outside her home.Read

Regeneration scheme attracts national attention

ONE of Birmingham’s biggest regeneration schemes, involving the bulldozing of 1,400 homes, is being seen as a trail blazer for similar schemes across Britain.Read

Plea for security cameras in tower block

ANXIOUS residents who survived an arson attack on their 20-storey city tower block are being reassured that security cameras will be installed within the next two weeks to stem the rising tide of vandalism which is now putting people’s lives at risk.Read

Traders boarded into Five Ways shopping centre

THE last group of traders in a shopping centre that is about to be bulldozed found themselves being boarded in - while they were still working in the city centre premises.Read

The Birmingham Pride parade in 2007

Gay Pride parade cancelled

THE largest gay and lesbian event in the country organised by Birmingham Pride will be without its crowd-pulling party piece this year - the famous parade that winds round the city centre and ends in the gay village.Read

Battle cry in Edgbaston hostel row

BATTLE lines are being drawn up by determined residents who are preparing for the next round of a fight to stop a hostel being opened on their doorstep for young men with criminal records, drug and alcohol problems.Read

2,000 take part in Birmingham Mail fun run

ASTON Villa was awash in a sea of green but even the most ardent Villa supporter was smiling as the best part of 2,000 people took to the streets for the Birmingham Mail’s first-ever Fun Run.Read

Patriotic Brummies celebrate St George’s Day

IN glorious spring sunshine, patriotic Brummies enjoyed all that makes England great with one of the finest St George’s Day celebrations in the country.Read

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Poppy Brady has worked as a journalist based in the community for the past ten years. She previously worked as a sub-editor for the Mail.

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