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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
London and Birmingham get lion's share of funding for 15,000 extra primary school places Ministers promised to fund an extra 15,000 primary school places in England today to stem urgent shortages caused by a baby boom and the credit crunch. The children's secretary, Ed Balls, pledged a £300m cash injection – £100m more than had been expected – to fund the extra places by September...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Bournville finally begins work on new campus after funding delays – 150 other colleges are not so lucky Last month, staff from Bournville College joined local dignitaries in south-west Birmingham for a sod-cutting ceremony to mark the start of work on a new campus that should be open for students in 2011. Plans for a new college have been in the pipeline since 2005 when, following the closure...
Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I do agree with Martin Kettle's analysis ( Hung parliaments are only good for whips and scribblers , 27 November), but I did wince at the headline. In June 1977 a hung parliament did enable myself and the late Audrey Wise to transfer some £80m from the better-off to the low-paid and poorer pensioners with very low occupational pensions. We were also able to carry the indexation amendment to...
Phil’s blog. (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Seems that the owner of Maesbury Marine Services of Shropshire has got himself an unhappy customer. This is no shock to me as I was on the receiving end of a phone call from a lady who’d bought a boat from the firm - a boat she was none too happy about. All this is hardly earth shattering stuff. If you sell something sods law dictates that someone will be unhappy with at least one of your products...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A further four people have died across the West Midlands as a result of swine flu, health bosses say.
NO2ID Birmingham (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Guardian has found the DNA database figures by region and the West Midlands comes second after Northumbria. We have 118 samples on the database per thousand population yet this does not appear to correspond to our position in the crime statistics. The Human Genetics Commission (HGC), an independent Government advisory body, has called for new rules for officers on when it is right to take a sample...
Laci the Dog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Steve's Regional News Caps is simply a place for those who appreciate the lovely ladies who report and present the news & weather on the U.K.'s regional news programmes. Most caps are of presenters in the West Midlands / Central region but there are also plenty more from other parts of the U.K. I post new caps most days, those posted here are just a small selection of those in the 'back room' -...
Nipper News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8375922.stm Up to a third of children in some areas may have had swine flu, but many will not have been ill, analysis shows. The Health Protection Agency has reviewed blood tests which showed higher levels of infection among children than originally thought. In hotspot areas, such as London and the West Midlands, a third of school-aged children [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Millions of people in the UK have samples on the national DNA database. Find out where they were taken • Get the data If you're arrested now, the chances are the police officer will swab your cheek with a cotton bud and send it off to be analysed. You will become part of the UK's burgeoning national DNA database. Now that procedure has been criticised. Police should not automatically take DNA...
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Three contrasting Daimler Fleetlines stand outside the West Midlands PTA former Birmingham Corporation bus garage at Miller Street just off the Walsall Road in 1980. No. 3511 of 1965 was typical of it's period and unless one could actually see the more rounded side-profile they might have mistaken this Park Royal body for MCW. As for the more attractive PTA standard bodied bus of the Seventies on the...
Bovine TB (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
It was only a matter of time before 'bovine' TB, now entrenched in a well protected but exploding population of badgers, spilled into non-bovine species. And if our Minister for (some) Animals' Health does not turn a hair at the slaughter of thousands of cattle annually, he may just have a fight on his hands with owners of some extremely highly valued alpacas, which when they do contract TB, appear...
Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Heavy winds whipped the West Midlands and dozens of severe weather warnings have been put in place, as forecasters warned more torrential weather is on the way.
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Julian Ware-Lane / @warelane It is pleasing when you hear of someone who enjoys their work. In Belle de Jour ’s case she would appear to be in a minority in her chosen area of employment. But that Dr Brooke Magnanti has had to out herself in an act of pre-emption against the Daily Mail perhaps suggests a hint of disingenuousness on her part. Just over three years ago I worked a stint in Amsterdam....
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