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Support Our Markets: Wholesale market traders launching judicial review action against Birmingham City Council Oct 27 2011

TRADERS from Birmingham’s wholesale market have launched a dramatic legal challenge against council plans to demolish the Pershore Street site.Read

Support our markets: Birmingham traders blog for for the Mail from China Oct 20 2011

We are in Shenzhen, a city in south china with 15 million inhabitants but the same size as Birmingham in area, with a vast range of different cultures.Read

Birmingham market traders take protest march through city streets Sep 21 2011

BIRMINGHAM market traders took their survival fight to the door of the Liberal Democrat conference in the city in a bid to raise awareness of their battle.Read

Support our Markets: Carl Chinn fears working class will be forced out of Birmingham city centre Sep 12 2011

CLOSING Birmingham's Wholesale Markets could lead to working class people being alienated from the city centre, according to historian Carl Chinn.Read

Support our markets: Yardley MP says solution to crisis is close Sep 03 2011

AN MP has blamed a ‘communication problem’ for the Birmingham Wholesale Markets crisis after stepping in to mediate between traders and the city council.Read

Support our Markets: Meeting minutes show date set for demolition Aug 26 2011

TRADERS have accused city council bosses of misleading the public over the wholesale market closure after a document emerged stating the Digbeth site WOULD be demolished in 2013.Read

Support our markets: Traders dismiss council fight back over Wholesale market in Digbeth Aug 25 2011

A COUNCIL fightback against so-called ‘myths’ over the threatened closure of Birmingham Wholesale Markets has been dismissed by traders as ‘spin’.Read

Grandaughter of Bull Ring trader who once sold half a donkey to a cafe calls for market fight Aug 25 2011

WITH links to the Bull Ring for over three centuries Kim Smith said her grandfather, who once sold half a donkey on the site, would be “heartbroken” at the peril facing his beloved markets.Read

Bore: we need a markets guarantee Aug 24 2011

COUNCIL bosses are being urged to issue a cast-iron guarantee that Birmingham will continue to have a major wholesale market.Read

Support our Markets: Ladywood MP backs traders' campaign in visit to wholesale markets Aug 24 2011

AT THE crack of dawn, hundreds of workers swing into action at a multi-million pound business.Read

Trader warns hospitals and schools could suffer Aug 24 2011

A FRUIT and vegetable wholesaler has warned that schools, prisons and hospitals could also suffer if the Digbeth-based market is closed.Read

Support our markets: Shoppers urged to write to council leader Mike Whitby Aug 23 2011

THE daughter of Birmingham’s former council leader and Lord Mayor Theresa Stewart manned a stall urging shoppers to write directly to council bosses over the threat to the city’s wholesale markets.Read

Support our markets: Crisis could be on a par with MG Rover Aug 22 2011

THE crisis facing Birmingham’s wholesale market could have a bigger impact on the city than the collapse of MG Rover in 2005, an MP has warned.Read

Support our markets: Historic institution is doomed unless council stump up cash, say traders Aug 20 2011

TRADERS at Birmingham’s threatened wholesale markets predicted the end of the historic institution if they were forced to move out.Read

Birmingham riots: Retail boss asks public to support city's blighted shops Aug 20 2011

A RETAIL boss has urged shoppers to start supporting Birmingham stores – which are still being left blighted by the anarchy on the city’s streets.Read

Support our markets: Sign the petition here Aug 20 2011

MAIL readers have thrown their support behind the market traders by signing an online petition at www.birminghammail.net.Read

Birmingham public rallies behind campaign for Bull Ring Markets Aug 19 2011

THE public has rallied in force behind a major campaign by traders who fear for the future of the city’s cherished Bull Ring Markets.Read

Support our markets: Traders leading the battle for the markets Aug 18 2011

THE vast vaulted hall of the horticultural market is like a giant steel cathedral piled high with pallets of cucumbers, melons, apples, oranges – as well as exotic fruits and vegetables as traders and customers rush about filling the trolleys, loading and unloading the convey of vans rolling past the open shutters of the many units.Read

Support our markets: Sign the petition to save Birmingham's Bull Ring Markets Aug 17 2011

A RALLYING call from market traders has been issued to the people of Birmingham, urging them to support the cherished Bull Ring Markets.Read

Birmingham City Council chief says 'we are committed to our markets' Aug 17 2011

BIRMINGHAM’S markets are an essential part of the city’s retail life and will not be closed or driven out of business, according to the city council’s deputy leader.Read