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A GAME OF CATCH-UP
21-08-2008
Stories you may have missed due to the problems we've had with our hosting company since 18th August
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FRIENDS INSTITUTE CLOSURE SHOCKER
20-08-2008
One of Birmingham’s best loved and most vibrant community business centres, The Friends Institute in Balsall Heath has been earmarked for closure – all because it needs a new boiler. more
65 JOBS TO GO AS POST SCRAPS SATURDAY
20-08-2008
65 journalists will lose their jobs across Trinity Mirror’s Midland operation covering the Birmingham Post, Mail, the Sunday Mercury and the Coventry Telegraph. The Post is also scrapping its Saturday edition as it shifts resources to internet publishing. more
Get Out More.........................Gig News
BROWNSTOCK (Barfly, November 1)
20-12-2008
The Brummies who support the world's most "right on" footy club - St Pauli of Hamburg, Germany - have just announced their fourth annual fund-raiser. It's known as Brownstock and you'd be mad to miss it. more
UNISON SLAMS COUNCIL SINGLE STATUS PLOY
20-08-2008
Trade union Unison has described Birmingham Council’s decision to withdraw its improved Single Status pay and grading offer as “outrageous” and “completely incomprehensible”. more
XMAS SHOPPING BLOW FOR LOW PAID COUNCIL STAFF
19-08-2008
Birmingham City Council has been accused of cashing in on thousands of workers by forcing them to take their wages monthly instead of weekly – then offering them a loan to cover the Christmas period. more
Get Out More.............................Musical News
WE WILL ROCK YOU (Hippodrome, 1 July - September 5 2009)
19-08-2008
The hit West End musical written by Queen and Ben Elton comes to Brum next summer, and tickets are already on sale to Hippodrome Friends. The rest of you will have to wait until September. more
DIARY OF A BRUMMIE MUMMY (Part Two)
19-08-2008
The latest instalment of the ordinary Birmingham mother and her offspring. more
Damo's Baseball Blog
CHICAGO - MY KIND OF TOWN
19-08-2008
Birmingham baseball fan Damian Doran has been making the latest of his regular pilgrimages to America to catch up with his favourite Stateside sport baseball. Here's his latest missive from Chicago. more
Callum's Blues Blog
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
19-08-2008
Blues have won three out of three in all competitions, giving Callum O'Connell that good time feeling. more
COUNCIL “CHIPPING AWAY” AT CIVIL LIBERTIES
18-08-2008
Maverick councillor Pete Smith is demanding to know more about Walsall Council’s snooping on its own citizens and workers, after discovering that the local authority has set up more than 900 covert surveillance operations. He’s warning that civil liberties are being “chipped away.” more
RONNIE DREW RIP
18-08-2008
Ronnie Drew, The Dubliners lead vocalist has passed away. Richard Nevin pays tribute to an artist who was immensely popular with the Irish diaspora in the West Midlands. more
Weekend Footy Round-Up
GABBY’S HAT-TRICK IS KILLER FOR VILLA
18-08-2008
Gabriel Agbonlahor got Villa’s home campaign off to a flyer, with a hat-trick in their 4-2 slaying of Man City. Blues, Wolves and Walsall won too – with only the Baggies letting the side down despite a promising performance at Arsenal. more
Poet's Corner
SONG SO BLUE
18-08-2008
The Stirrer's poet laureate Brendan Hawthorne pays tribute to Birmingham's spin doctors whose advertising leaflets showed another city with the same name in the United States. To be sung to the tune of Lynrd Skynrd's Sweet Home Alabama. more
Kingy’s Wolves Blog
THAT WINNING FEELING
18-08-2008
After last week's opening day draw at Plymouth, Wolves opened their Molineux account with a romp against Sheffield Wednesday. Brendan King basks in the reflected glory. more
Terry’s Baggies Blog
A KICK UP THE ARSE
18-08-2008
Albion made their first trip to the Emirates on the opening day of the Premier League season, and - predictably - came away empty handed. Terry Wills looks at the positives. more
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