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Pupils get own bank at Wilson Stuart School and Sports College, Erdington

PUPILS at a city special school celebrated during a milestone event aimed at preparing them for life after the classroom.Read

St John the Baptist RC Primary pupils preparing a bumper harvest

IT’S all grow at one primary school in Birmingham.Read

Brave Birmingham cancer battler nets college award

A BIRMINGHAM mum is to fulfil her dream of working with children after beating breast cancer to continue her education.Read

Tribute to fallen

PUPILS at schools across Birmingham will be paying tribute to the many thousands of servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.Read

Brave Birmingham cancer battler nets college award

A BIRMINGHAM mum is to fulfil her dream of working with children after beating breast cancer to continue her education.Read

School of the Week: The Oval Primary, Yardley

CARIBBEAN carnival came to the slightly less sunnier climes of Yardley in south Birmingham when a local primary school celebrated Black History Month in style.Read

Rise in racist incidents in Birmingham schools is denied by senior education officer

A SENIOR education officer in Birmingham has denied claims that the number of racist incidents in its schools has almost doubled in recent years.Read

4,000 women Birmingham City Council employees take equal pay fight to court

MORE than 4,000 women employed by Birmingham City Council will be taking their fight for equal pay to court next week.Read

Armed robbers strike at Sparkhill Halifax

STAFF at a Birmingham bank were threatened with hammers and axes by robbers who then made off with a large quantity of cash.Read

Woman motorist cut free from car following crash in Edgbaston

A WOMAN motorist was cut free from the wreckage of her car following a crash in Birmingham before being taken by ambulance to Selly Oak Hospital.Read

Birmingham University Vice-Chancellor puts up £40,000 to back research crusade

A UNIVERSITY vice-chancellor in Birmingham has donated a whopping £40,000 of his own money towards a £60 million fund-raising campaign by the leading institution.Read

£100m campus for Birmingham City University moves a step closer

BIRMINGHAM City University has drawn up a shortlist of some of the country’s biggest building contractors to take on its new city centre campus costing up to £100 million.Read

Fred and Rosemary West

Former police chief launches a cracker-style degree in crime

THE man who brought notorious serial killers Fred and Rosemary West to book says many more victims of the evil husband and wife murderers could still to be found.Read

School of the Week: Hill West Primary, Sutton Coldfield

THERE can be few people who love or know more about books than Lucy Bakewell.Read

£17m Stockland Green Technology College gets underway

THE head boy and girl at a Birmingham secondary school helped cement the foundations for their future by laying the first brick on their new £17 million building.Read

Students in global message

STUDENTS in Birmingham spelled out their own message about the threat of global warming to the planet.Read

Birmingham memorial service to remember gun and knife crime victims

YOUNG victims of gun and knife crime in Birmingham are to be remembered in a special memorial service organised by a city campaigner whose only son was shot to death.Read

Birmingham Repertory Theatre going on tour

THEATRE in Birmingham is going on tour as a result of the £193 million project to build a new library in the city.Read

Group of Birmingham teachers set off on humanitarian mission to help “forgotten” refugee camps in Africa.

A GROUP of Birmingham teachers have set off on a humanitarian mission to help “forgotten” refugee camps in poverty-hit Africa.Read

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