Mar
2010
Articles from 4th Mar 2010
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Cadbury jobs cuts: Kraft defends redundancies at Bournville
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Union leaders attacked US food giant Kraft today after being told that the firm was seeking to make its first job cuts only weeks after completing its controversial purchase of Cadbury. Read
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BNP blocks application from Staffordshire Asian billionaire
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A millionaire Asian businessman who applied to join the BNP has been told his application will be blocked, he said today. Read
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Birmingham International Airport has introduced new facial recognition border gates
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
THE first passengers have stepped through new state-of-the-art facial recognition border gates at Birmingham International Airport. Read
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Birmingham RBS workers dishonestly used disabled badges to park
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A total of 13 Birmingham city centre office workers, most of them employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, face losing their jobs after being found guilty of dishonestly using disabled blue badges to secure free parking - one of them belonging to a dead pensioner. Read
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Your Story: Please don't suffer in silence like me
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
COUNTLESS women suffer domestic abuse in silence, which can lead to years of depression, isolation or self-harm. Read
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Boy of three was bruised a week before death, jury hears
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
THE mother of a three-year-old Midland boy told a jury she noticed bruises on his ear a week before he was allegedly murdered by a couple looking after him. Read
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Longbridge to be renamed after over 100 years
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
LONGBRIDGE is being consigned to history after more than 100 years – with a multi-million pound Chinese makeover to turn the site into the nerve centre of MG design worldwide. Read
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Midland MP's pay tribute to Michael Foot
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
MPs have paid tribute to Michael Foot, the former Labour leader, who died today aged 96. Read
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Golf buggies to transport patients around new huge Edgbaston superhospital
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
GOLF buggies are to ferry people around Birmingham’s new superhospital – because it is so huge. Read
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Birmingham Bulls American Football team in weighty challenge for liver kids
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Bulls American Football team is putting its weight behind Children’s Liver Disease Foundation with a lifting challenge. Read
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Cat show comes to Kings Heath
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
ANIMAL lovers are invited to see some of the best specimens the cat world has to offer. Read
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Brave souls sought for charity abseil in Walsall.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
WALSALL Hospice is hoping that brave souls with a head for heights will test their nerves at a charity abseil down the town’s New Art Gallery this summer. Read
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Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield shuts down to visitors over bug crisis
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A MAJOR Birmingham hospital has closed to most visitors after a a serious norovirus outbreak. Read
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Erdington Library hosts Irish family history support session
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BUDDING historians hoping to trace their Irish roots are invited to a support session on March 20. Read
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West Midlands UKIP MEP Mike Natrass is to hold question time sessions across the region.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
WEST Midlands UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass will be holding a series of talks and question time sessions across the region on various dates this month. Read
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Khyra Ishaq: A timeline of abuse
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
March 16, 2007 – Gordon writes to the school and asks the staff to make sure that none of the children receive second helpings of food. There is also a meeting at school where Gordon is told that Khyra has been caught stealing food. Read
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Khyra Ishaq and sibling rarely allowed out of room
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Removing them from school also removed their one guaranteed meal and they were often beaten for stealing food from the bin. Read
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Birmingham Council officials to justify appointment of £800-a-day spin doctor
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
RED-faced Birmingham City Council officials were last night desperately trying to distance themselves from a decision to hire an £800-a-day spin doctor after it emerged the appointment broke rules on hiring expensive consultants and was made without political approval. Read
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Horrific truth about brutal treatment of Khyra Ishaq
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Two of Khyra’s five siblings nearly died in hospital because of “Re-feeding syndrome” a phenomenon first seen in the Nazi concentration camps of Eastern Europe. Read
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Mail investigation: Errors contributed to death of Khyra Ishaq
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A 43-page Family Court Judgment, which has only now been made fully public, is a harrowing account of the events leading up to the seven-year-old’s death from starvation. Read
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Khyra Ishaq's tragic death 'an incident' court told
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Such a chilling dismissal of the forced starvation of Khyra brought a rebuke from judge Mrs Justice King. Read
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Cyclist hurt in Northfield crash
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A CYCLIST has been injured following a rush-hour collision with a car in Birmingham. Read
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Duo must resign after Khyra Ishaq death
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Tony Howell, the strategic director of children, young people and families, replied that there was not. Read
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Birmingham social services bosses may have been able to save Khyra Ishaq
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
Under sections 10 and 11 of the 2004 Act, local authorities can insist on seeing children in order to enquire about their welfare. Read
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Traders in battle over Shard End restaurant plan
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A TRADER can open a restaurant and takeaway on a Birmingham shopping parade despite police reporting 84 incidents of yob behaviour there in the last year. Read
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West Midlands Police find cannabis factory in Millionaire's Row
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A CANNABIS factory found on the Midlands’ Millionaire’s Row could have flooded the region with thousands of pounds worth of drugs, it emerged today. Read
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Birmingham International Airport has introduced new facial recognition border gates
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
THE first passengers have stepped through new state-of-the-art facial recognition border gates at Birmingham International Airport. Read
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New Wolverhampton branch of UKIP launched.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A NEW Wolverhampton Branch of the United Kingdom Independance Party (UKIP) has been launched and is growing rapidly, according to founders. The next meeting will be at the Electric Club in St. Mark’s Road, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, starting at 7.30pm on March 8. Read
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Woman cries as she recalls seeing Warwickshire Hunt supporter's head 'cleaved from top to bottom'
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A WOMAN who saw a Midland hunt supporter’s head cleaved “from top to bottom” by the blade of a gyrocopter broke down as she recalled the moment in court. Read
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Woman was airlifted to hospital following a collision with a car in Wolverhampton, near the junction of the Birmingham New Road and Meadow Lane
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A WOMAN was airlifted to hospital following a collision with a car in Wolverhampton. Read
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Harriet Harman in the firing line over Jack Dromey's Erdington nomination
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
JACK Dromey, the trade union boss picked as an election candidate in Birmingham, was dragged into the row over party funding as top Tory William Hague mocked his wife – Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman. Read
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Leslie Vines need "high level" of care at Maypole Nursing Home
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM nursing home resident who died less than ten days after moving in needed a high level of care, an inquest heard. Read
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Shenstone Library offers two courses to improve IT skills.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
SHENSTONE Library is offering residents a chance to develop their IT skills with two six week courses starting March 12. A digital photo management course will run 9.15am-11.15am and laptop for beginners 11.30am-1.30pm. To book (cost is £30 per person) call 01543 480915 or email shenstone.library@staffordshire.gov.uk. Read
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Broad Street tower to become hotel
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A VACANT 18-storey Birmingham city centre tower block is to get a new lease of life as a hotel following a meeting of city planners. Read
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosts exotic flower show
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Botanical Gardens will be blooming with an exotic flower show on March 28. Read
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Volunteers wanted for Worcestershire charity abseil
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A DISABLED children’s charity is looking for people to scale the heights of a Midland landmark in a fundraising abseil. Read
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Asda to open store in Kings Heath.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
SUPERMARKET giant Asda is to open a new 16,294 sq ft store on the site of the former Co-op in Kings Heath High Street later this month. Read
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Ex-Villa star Dion Dublin back in Midlands for launch of film to promote Prince’s Trust
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
FORMER Aston Villa star Dion Dublin was back in the Midlands for the launch of a hard-hitting film to promote the Prince’s Trust. Read
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Budding dancers from Castle Bromwich Spotlight Stage School set to perform the ballet Giselle at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BUDDING ballerinas from a Birmingham stage school are set to dance in a famous ballet after beating competition from across the region in an open audition. Read
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg defends Birmingham City Council cuts
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg defended Birmingham City Council’s decision to axe 2,000 jobs. Read
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Blood donors needed in Sheldon
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
PEOPLE are urged to give blood at St Giles Church, in Church Road, Sheldon, tomorrow, 1.30pm-3.30pm or 4.30pm to 7.30pm. Call 0300 123 23 23. Read
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Solihull students design tourism website
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A GROUP of students have been busy designing a new website for the Solihull Tourism Forum which will promote the borough as the place to be for business and leisure. Read
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Sandwell residents will see their council tax bills go up by just over one per cent this year
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
SANDWELL residents will see their council tax bills go up by just over one per cent this year. Read
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Army bomb disposal experts called out to Chasewater Country Park for a third time
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
ARMY bomb disposal experts were called out to a Midland reservoir for a third time after bombs believed to date from the Second World War were discovered. Read
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95 per cent of parents get first choice of school for children in Staffordshire.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
NINETY five per cent of parents applying for school places for their children are celebrating being given their first choice in Staffordshire. Read
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Fifty young musicians will compete for a prestigious music title in Staffordshire this weekend.
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
YOUNG musicians are warming up to try to become Staffordshire’s Young Musician of the Year. Read
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Tots drum up fun at the Fort
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BHANGRA drummers led toddlers on a colourful procession around an iconic Birmingham building as part of a fundraiser in aid of Haiti. Read
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Tragic BBC presenter Kristian Digby in Birmingham
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
THIS is tragic BBC presenter Kristian Digby taking part in a fashion shoot in Birmingham during the early days of his TV career. Read
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Memorial match to mark Quinsey's murder
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
FRIENDS of Birmingham soldier Sapper Mark Quinsey murdered by Real IRA terrorists are to hold a memorial football match to mark the one-year anniversary of his death on Sunday. Read
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Tracey Downer murder trial: Accused husband said her last words were 'i love you'
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A HUSBAND on trial for stabbing his new wife to death in front of her daughter has told a court that she said she loved him as she lay dying. Read
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Eyesore Jewellery Quarter petrol station to be demolished
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
AN EYESORE Jewellery Quarter petrol station will be demolished to make way for a four-storey hotel. Read
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Wardrobe guru Gok Wan sent his fashion spies out to West Bromwich in a bid to find fashion faux pas ahead of his visit to the town later this month
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
WARDROBE guru Gok Wan has sent his fashion spies out to the Black Country in a bid to find the region’s worst-dressers ahead of his visit to West Bromwich later this month. Read
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John Taylor Hospice is holding a fundraising coffee morning on March 13
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
JOHN Taylor Hospice is holding one of its regular fundraising coffee mornings on Saturday March 13 between 10am and 12 noon. Read
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Birmingham City Council launch search for city's best bar
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM’S licensing chiefs have called on pub bosses to prove they are Best Bar None. Read
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Aston arts centre the Drum holds Haiti fundraiser
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM arts centre is doing its bit to help those affected by the Haiti earthquake. The Action for Haiti event at the Drum in Aston features music, poetry, dance and discussion with a collection of shoes, clothes and supplies from 2-9pm on Sunday. Read
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Redditch lorry driver jailed for two years for crashing into grandmother
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
A SPEEDING Midland lorry driver was putting his sunglasses away when he ploughed into the back of a young grandmother’s car – killing her instantly. Read
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Hundreds of Dudley teenagers found out about apprenticeships at a free roadshow that will be visiting Wolverhampton and Birmingham
Mar 04 2010 | Top Stories
HUNDREDS of Dudley teenagers visited a free roadshow to find out about apprenticeships. Read
