Jun
2010
Articles from 16th Jun 2010
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham opens - the facts
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
An average of one patient every five minutes will be moved over the next three days. Read
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World Cup: Archaeologist digs up England cup omen in Coventry
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
An archaeologist in Coventry has discovered what she hopes will be a lucky omen for England's World Cup campaign - a medieval badge emblazoned with three lions. Read
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Staff at Selly Oak Hospital bid farewell to home of 15 years
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
STAFF at Selly Oak Hospital’s A&E last night bid their home of 15 years an emotional farewell when it finally closed its doors. Read
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Custard Factory shootings: Company reviews events plans after shootings
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A company that organised an event in Birmingham where four people got shot at the weekend has said it will not hold similar events in the future. Read
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Birmingham City Council to cut budgets by £100m over next two years
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM City Council has revealed that it expects to cut budgets by a whopping £100 million over the next two years to comply with the Government’s public spending clamp-down. Read
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Birmingham's £2.6 billion superhospital opens its doors
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
IT is Britain’s biggest new hospital and the first in Birmingham for the past 70 years. Read
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End of the road for Davenports beer
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM’S famous Davenports beer is set to disappear after the Midland brewery which made it shut down. Read
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Gardeners' World Live scores a winner
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
THERE’S just no getting away from the World Cup – even at the Midlands’ biggest Garden Show. Read
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Delight at Bloody Sunday victims are cleared
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
THE brother of innocent Kevin McElhinney, shot dead on Bloody Sunday, has spoken of his delight after his family name was finally cleared. Read
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Birmingham's Robert Green wants namesake axed
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
THEY might share a name but Birmingham’s Robert Green has little sympathy for England’s butter-fingers World Cup goalkeeper. Read
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Next phase of Longbridge unveiled
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
LONGBRIDGE is back proudly at the forefront of the UK motoring sector – with the £3 million launch of the world’s newest automotive design studio. Read
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Redundant MG Rover worker bounces back at Longbridge
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
RICHARD McAlister was working in Shanghai when he heard that MG Rover had gone under – but the £1 billion plus collapse of the Phoenix consortium proved a turning point in his career. Read
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Brum Bus in Liverpool for City of Culture final push
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A TOP team of dancers, musicians and acrobats were in Liverpool today showcasing the best of Birmingham in the fight to be crowned UK City of Culture. Read
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City centre traffic chaos
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
THERE was traffic chaos when a lorry broke down in the Queensway Tunnel in the city centre yesterday afternoon, causing queues to the Aston Expressway. Read
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Pedestrian's lucky escape as lorry misses him by inches in Castle Bromwich.
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A MAN was thanking his lucky stars today after escaping being crushed to death by a matter of inches. Read
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Ball of plastic discovered in Birmingham baby's food
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A DOTING dad has hit out at a baby food firm after he found a plastic ball one of their meals which nearly choked his little daughter. Read
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New brain care facility planned for Birmingham
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A SPECIALIST brain treatment centre offering vital new care for Midland patients is to create up to 75 jobs following the £3.5 million conversion of a disused former nursing home in Birmingham. Read
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Birmingham teens are traveling to Germany to mark the anniversary of a racist neo-nazi attack on a city man.
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
NOEL Martin was paralysed when racist yobs threw a concrete block at his car causing it to smash into a tree in Mahlow, south of Berlin, 14 years ago today. Read
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Lorry robbing alleged gang member sobs in dock
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
A GANG member stabbed by a trucker he is accused of trying to rob sobbed as he told a jury how he rushed to hospital with his dying friend in his car. Read
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Police in north Birmingham get electric Taser stun guns
Jun 16 2010 | Top Stories
FRONTLINE bobbies in parts of Birmingham have been equipped with 50,000-volt electric stun guns, it has emerged. Read
