The city centre news for April 30:
- Cheap as Chips: Big Bite, Broad Street, Birmingham
Birmingham Mail
ISN’T IT odd that what will become the tallest tower in Brum is to be built on a pinprick of land on Broad Street? What future for the site’s beautiful 1836 bank turned restaurant, good enough to host a dinner for the G8 wives in 1998? - Birmingham advances consolidation plans ahead of general election
Public Property UK
Local authorities will be keenly watching the outcome of next week’s general election for a clue about the scale of public sector cuts they can expect once parliament returns. Whichever party is in power, cutting property costs will be high on the agenda. Birmingham City Council is already well on its way. - Car crashes as Gordon Brown launches Labour poster
Daily Mirror
A car crashed into a bus shelter today as Gordon Brown was launching a new Labour Party poster nearby. The Volkswagen Golf smashed into the shelter on a traffic island in Hockley, Birmingham, yards from the car park where the launch was taking place. - Birmingham History Bus returns
Birmingham Newsroom
Catch the History Bus to visit museums around Birmingham. The free History Bus service returns on the first Sunday of every month beginning on May 2nd and continuing until 3rd October. - Clubs: Superstar DJs bank on Brum
Birmingham Mail
BIRMINGHAM is packed with big names this weekend as the city’s nighspots push the boat out for the bank holiday. Topping the tables is Digbeth’s Electric Carnival which has been organised by regular club promoters Eclectricity and which will see Fatboy Slim, Calvin Harris, Chase and Status and Radio1’s Annie Mac taking to the decks along with a host of other big-name DJs. - Battle to get people in Ladywood to the ballot box
BBC Birmingham
Candidates in the Birmingham constituency of Ladywood fear their biggest battle may be persuading people to go out and vote. In the 2005 election the turn out for Ladywood, a city centre constituency, was 46.8%, compared to an average of 60.7% across the West Midlands. - Inside the old Digbeth Discount building on New Canal Street
Digbeth.org
To the side of this lovely old red-brick building on New Canal Street I found a big man-sized rabbit hole – so I went inside; here’s what I found. - Baristas slug it out in Urban Coffee latte art competition
Grounds Birmingham
This morning two of the talented baristas (or Urbanistas) at Urban Coffee Company, home of the Grounds blog, competed against each other in a latte art competition.
