The city centre news for 16 June:
- Brum Bus in Liverpool for City of Culture final push
Birmingham Mail
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. The entertainers were part of the city’s delegation facing a panel of judges who will decide whether Brum, Derry, Norwich or Sheffield will be Britain’s cultural capital in 2013. - Review of plans follows Birmingham shooting
BBC News
A firm which organised an event where four people were shot says it will not hold similar events in the future. - Brothers banned over the death of hanged dog
Birmingham Mail
TWO brothers who mistreated a dog which was found hanging dead from a 15th floor balcony of a city centre tower block have been given suspended sentences. - Leading questions on the library
The Stirrer
Birmingham developer Argent has published a summary of responses to the Public Information Exhibition that it held in February this year on the future of Paradise Circus. Alan Clawley argues that the way in which the questions are phrased means that most people, even Friends of the Central Library who want to preserve the existing building, might largely agree with them.
