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  • Play your part in Birmingham’s UK City of Culture pitch

    Play your part in Birmingham’s UK City of Culture pitch

    The Birmingham UK City of Culture team makes its final pitch to the judging panel in Liverpool today. And we want you to help us convince the judges that Birmingham deserves this prestigious accolade in 2013. Representatives of arts organisations, the business community and Birmingham City Council will explain to the panel – chaired by [...]

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  • Could the new government be good for Birmingham?

    Could the new government be good for Birmingham?

    It’s not the business of Birmingham Alive! to be party-political; and from my own perspective, although my political views are broadly left liberal I’ve not actively supported any political party since a dalliance with the Green Party in the late 80s. So it is definitely with a sense of impartiality that I can speculate a [...]

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  • Public Transport – ‘could do better’

    Public Transport – ‘could do better’

    I’m writing this starting at 10:05 sat on a stationary train headed for Rugby. Not – as I should be – walking through the streets of Coventry having got off the train five minutes ago, heading towards a meeting which is due to start at 10:30. It is of course entirely my own fault. I [...]

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  • Elections – do your candidates want you to vote for them?

    Elections – do your candidates want you to vote for them?

    Over here in Ladywood, if it wasn’t for the televised party leaders’ debates, we wouldn’t actually know there’s an election going on. Barely any posters can be seen (I’ve seen just two, in the same site on Summer Row), there have been no cars driving around with megaphones, few of us have had any leaflets [...]

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  • Hello world!

    Hello world!

    Welcome to the all new birmingham alive! You’ll have noticed how for the past year it had got a bit… neglected; well, we’ve had a rethink about how we’re going to do the site and this is the process of rebuilding it – & what there is is quite experimental. There’s not a lot here [...]

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