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Will Olympic centre costs drown inner-city pools?

BIRMINGHAM City Council’s propaganda machine has been cranking up the excitement for the prestigious new Aquatics and Leisure Centre proposed for Ladywood.Read

Don’t turn BNP into victims

THERE’S a huge irony in the egg throwing antics of Unite Against Fascism who splattered BNP leader Nick Griffin this week.Read

Sting in the tail at the airport after a holiday in Newquay

IT’S not only Westminster politicians who are out to milk the public – their counterparts in Cornwall are at it too. And thousands of people from the West Midlands are victims of their legalised con.Read

Goodbye to Big Sister . .

JACQUI Smith will soon be gone, but surely not forgotten after her disastrous stint as Home Secretary.Read

Council is waving white flag in the planning battle

SO it’s official then.Read

Blunt sex advice is answer

IT’S emerged that 13-year-old Alfie Patten hasn’t fathered a child with 15-year-old Chantelle Stedman after all.Read

Cynical cost-cutting turns day care into nightmare

DOES anyone really think pulling down the shutters on a couple of day care centres in Birmingham will really improve the lives of the people who go there?Read

Why Fry’s got it wrong

PAMPERED luvvy Stephen Fry has condemned the nation’s “bourgeois” obsession with MPs’ expenses.Read

Why shouldn’t team of true talents run Brum?

IT’S not quite in the same league as Ricky Hatton versus Manny Pacquiao, but Birmingham faces its own bruising punch-up in ten days’ time.Read

Smuggle drugs at your peril

Samanatha Orabator, the pregnant British woman accused of drug smuggling in Laos, will now apparently escape execution by firing squad even if she’s found guilty.Read

Why shouldn't a team of all the talents run Birmingham?

IT’S not quite in the same league as Ricky Hatton versus Manny Pacquiao, but Birmingham faces its own bruising punch-up in ten days’ time.Read

Smuggle drugs at your peril

Samanatha Orabator, the pregnant British woman accused of drug smuggling in Laos, will now apparently escape execution by firing squad even if she’s found guilty.Read

Don’t count our Olympic chickens until they hatch

WHEN it comes to the 2012 Olympics, Birmingham is going for gold.Read

Taxpayers fork out for cemetery homes row

TWO senior Birmingham councillors are at war over plans to build a housing estate on a city graveyard.Read

Muck flying everywhere

HOW ironic that West Bromwich MP Tom Watson should have found himself on the receiving end of tabloid tittle tattle over his alleged involvement in a plot to smear the Tory party.Read

Bringing back pride to neighbourhoods

BARMY Sandwell resident Chris Reilly wants his local council taken over by Birmingham – and has even set up a Downing Street petition to win support for the idea.Read

Bringing back pride to neighbourhoods

BARMY Sandwell resident Chris Reilly wants his local council taken over by Birmingham – and has even set up a Downing Street petition to win support for the idea.Read

Council pays lip service to our unreliable buses

REG Varney used to make millions laugh as star of TV’s On The Buses – but how we could do with a few more inspectors like his old boss Blakey to get things moving now.Read

Cutbacks that dare not speak their name

SINCE warning last week that three Birmingham libraries face the risk of closure, I’ve come in for a full frontal assault from city bigwigs accusing me of “scaremongering”.Read

Brummies would relish chance to say thanks

GOOD luck to the Queens Royal Hussars, the Iraq War veterans who will get a parade in Birmingham after discovering they aren’t welcome in Belfast.Read