Jan
2009
Articles from 27th Jan 2009
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Birmingham University students in halls of residence fees protest
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
DOZENS of students have called on the University of Birmingham to reduce its accommodation costs after claiming that children from middle and lower income families are being priced out of a top class higher education. Read
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SHOCKED diners in one of Birmingham’s top stores were served up more than they bargained for – six dead mice which fell into its food hall.
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
They could scarcely believe their eyes as half-a-dozen dead rodents dropped from ducting at Selfridges. Read
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200 Midland steel workers face Corus axe
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
NEARLY 200 steel workers in the West Midlands could be forced to relocate to South Yorkshire or lose their jobs after steel giant Corus announced 2,500 UK jobs were to go. Read
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YOUNG ballroom stars Helena Bradbury and James Westley waltzed their way to the top of the leader board in a national dance competition.
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
The 15-year-olds, members of the Broadway Dance Centre, in Perry Barr, scooped top prize for the waltz and quickstep at the British Juvenile Dance Championships in Blackpool. Read
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Three-day week for 600 Aston Martin workers
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
NEARLY 600 workers at luxury Midland car firm Aston Martin have been put on a three-day week as the UK car sales crisis worsens. Read
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Solihull school teacher denies sexually assaulting woman after Christmas drinking
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
A TEACHER took advantage of a sleeping woman in order to sexually abuse her following an end-of-term Christmas drinking celebration, it has been alleged. Read
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SHOCKED diners in one of Birmingham’s top stores were served up more than they bargained for – six dead mice which fell into its food hall.
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
They could scarcely believe their eyes as half-a-dozen dead rodents dropped from ducting at Selfridges. Read
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AN innocent dad was brutally battered to death just yards from his Midland home by a gang of thugs.
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
Friends said steel worker Mick Eccles, aged 43, was punched, kicked and smashed over the head with a brick after he was surrounded by the thugs in Weston Road, Lichfield, on Sunday night. Read
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By Mark Cowan
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
A WOMAN has been released from hospital after being treated for knife wounds following a double stabbing in Solihull. Read
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Dead mice fall on diners in Birmingham top store
Jan 27 2009 | Birmingham News
SHOCKED diners in one of Birmingham’s top stores were served up more than they bargained for – six dead mice which fell into its food hall. Read
