Birmingham Mail - In depth - Support our markets

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

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:50:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:15:00 GMT

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.

Birmingham market traders take protest march through city streets

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:46:00 GMT

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.

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

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:43:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:00:00 GMT

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

Support our Markets: Meeting minutes show date set for demolition

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Bore: we need a markets guarantee

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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

Trader warns hospitals and schools could suffer

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:48:00 GMT

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.

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

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:57:00 GMT

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.

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

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Support our markets: Sign the petition here

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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

Birmingham public rallies behind campaign for Bull Ring Markets

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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.

Support our markets: Traders leading the battle for the markets

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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.