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2010
Articles from 30th Mar 2010
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Your Community: Newly-arrived brides made friends for life
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A WOMEN’S group in Birmingham has been offering a lifeline to new arrivals for nearly 50 years. Read
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Your Celebrations: A Downing St date for 'mumpreneur'
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM mother who has mastered the skill of ‘mumpreneuring’ was personally congratulated by the Prime Minister for her work and achievements. Read
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Your Celebrations: Medal haul for young gymnasts
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
MEMBERS from Erdington Gym Club came home from their first regional gymnastics competition in ten years with 11 medals. Read
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Your Celebrations: Student makes national final of stylist awards
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A TALENTED Solihull College Beauty Therapy student has secured a place in a high-profile national competition. Read
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Your Lives: Runaway cow sensed Violet's caring nature
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
VIOLET May Rose, who has died aged 86, had three main passions in life – her family, children and animals. Read
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Your Memories: Ripped from family homes at a tender age
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
WHEN four-year-old Maggie was told by her foster mother that her real mother might not be able to visit from Birmingham because of heavy snow, she dug a path from her front door to the bus stop. Read
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Your Charities: Helping to ease cancer patients' money worries
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
MONEY raised in the Birmingham Mail Fun Run on May 2 will help cancer sufferers worried about their finances. Read
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Your Charities: Boldly backing their team-mate
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
TWO young Stourbridge footballers are going to hair-raising lengths to support their cancer-stricken teammate. Read
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Your Charities: Help for disabled children
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
AN AFTER-school group has received a huge boost by picking up £1,000 from the Birmingham Mail Charity Trust. Read
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Your Charities: Afghanistan mum aiding heroes home and abroad
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A PROUD mother whose two sons are serving in Afghanistan is holding a charity car wash to raise funds for Help for Heroes. Read
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Your Charities: Big Ron speaks up for hospice
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
FORMER Villa manager Ron Atkinson will be the guest speaker at a charity event aimed at raising funds for Acorns Children’s Hospice. Read
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Your Charities: Students run width of Britain
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
PARK Hall Academy students set themselves the impressive target of covering a distance of 190 miles to raise money for Sport Relief. Read
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Your Charities: Family's gift for Acorns in memory of little Sumayya
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A FAMILY who received endless support from Acorns Children’s Hospice while their daughter suffered with a life-limiting illness has returned with a donation to help support its work. Read
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Your Charities: Matt bags funds for children with cancer
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A DEDICATED fundraiser spent a weekend bag-packing at a local Tesco supermarket. Read
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Cannabis farm found in wealthy Walsall street
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A LARGE cannabis factory was found by police in a leafy Midland suburb. Read
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Life sentence for Solihull father who stabbed daughter to death
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A SOLIHULL father who brutally stabbed his daughter to death was today starting a life sentence of a minimum of 20 years. Read
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Snow set for West Midlands, says Met Office.
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
SNOW will hit the region this week but is unlikely to disrupt Midland motorists and public transport, according to the Met Office. Read
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Man stabbed at Acocks Green pub
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A MAN was critically ill in hospital after being stabbed several times in a fight at a Birmingham pub. Read
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Cannock police officer pleads not guilty to perverting the course of justice
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
Jason Bolas, aged 31, of Laburnum Avenue, Cannock, pleaded not guilty to a charge of doing an act intended to pervert the course of justice. Read
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Fatal Winson Green crash - IPCC informed
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A FATAL road accident in Birmingham is to be investigated by the independent police watchdog. Read
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100-year-old tree in Highfield Road, Hall Green chopped down after builders damage roots
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A DEVELOPER is facing calls to replace a landmark cedar tree which was chopped down despite being legally protected. Read
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£12million research centre for obesity and diabetes is opened at Heartlands Hospital
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A £12 million state-of-the-art research facility to tackle obesity was due to be officially opened today. Read
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Tenant evicted and flat re-possessed in drugs crackdown in the Jewellery Quarter
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
POLICE and bailiffs swooped to evict a tenant and seize a flat that has been the focus of complaints about drug taking blighting a city “oasis”. Read
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Five injured in Hall Green car crash.
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
FIVE people were taken to hospital after two cars collided head-on in a busy Birmingham road. Read
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Birmingham City Council to make special plea for more government anti-poverty cash
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM is being urged to make a special case for extra government cash to tackle unemployment and social deprivation. Read
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Pictures and video of Highters Heath dead soldier Mark Quinsey stolen
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
PRECIOUS pictures and unseen video footage of a Birmingham soldier shot dead by Real IRA terrorists have been stolen. Read
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Walsall Wood grave mix-up vicar admits "foolish" blunder
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND vicar who allowed the body of a murder victim to be buried in a grave reserved for a parishioner has admitted he made a “foolish mistake”. Read
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Cross Guns pub in Washwood Heath still threatened with closure
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A PUB company locked in a “dodgy data” row over a bid to demolish a Birmingham watering hole is set to win approval for the controversial scheme. Read
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Devastated Lichfield family of Harrison Joyce brand Government "disgusting" over response to e-petition.
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
THE parents of a Midland boy of three who was strangled by a looped window blind cord have been told their campaign for a national ban will fail. Read
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Birmingham Children's Hospital's Ronald McDonald House: We're Lovin' It!
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
A GRANDMOTHER who was one of the first people to stay in a £7.6 million “home from home” in Birmingham for the families of sick children described it as a “big, safety cushion”. Read
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Monty Python star Terry Jones gives his backing to Birmingham's UK Capital of Culture 2013 bid
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
MONTY Python star Terry Jones has become the latest celebrity to back Birmingham’s UK City of Culture bid. Read
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Blood bosses in row with Birmingham MP John Hemming
Mar 30 2010 | Top Stories
AN NHS body has denied claims it offered to pay an MP to support redundancies in Birmingham. Read
