ladywood Archive

  • City centre news – 6 September, 2010

    City centre news – 6 September, 2010

    The city centre news for September 6: Chance to become St John Ambulance cadet Birmingham Mail The charity is looking for youngsters between five and 10 to join their cadets and anyone aged between 10 to 18, to become Badgers, in Ladywood. Music firm is global hit Birmingham Mail Ditto Music, which recently turned down [...]

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  • City centre news – 4 August, 2010

    City centre news – 4 August, 2010

    The city centre news for August 4: Under threat Ladywood film project wins acclaim for war graves report Birmingham Mail The video, produced by the Ladywood TNT group has even appeared on the official Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. But it could be one of their final bulletins as council funding has stopped and the [...]

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  • City centre news, 27 July, 2010

    City centre news, 27 July, 2010

    The city centre news for 27 July: Filming begins on Hustle series seven Beecareful.info Filming has begun on the seventh series of Kudos Film and Television and Red Planet Pictures’ Hustle. The new series of Hustle will film in Birmingham and London this summer for transmission on BBC One in 2011. Plans for £13m health [...]

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  • City centre news – 22 July, 2010

    City centre news – 22 July, 2010

    The city centre news for 22 July: Half Marathon on course for new record Birmingham Newsroom The third annual EDF Birmingham Half Marathon on is on course to beat last year’s figure of 12,000 runners with entries already past the 5,000 mark. And six amateur runners who completed the 13.1-mile course last year have joined [...]

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  • City centre news – 15 July, 2010

    City centre news – 15 July, 2010

    The city centre news for 15 July: Absent West Midland parents owe their kids’ carers £27.6 million Birmingham Mail A national league table of shame lists non-resident mums and dads from Birmingham Ladywood, West Bromwich and Cannock Chase as among the worst in the country. In Ladywood, absent mums and dads owe an eyewatering £9.1 [...]

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  • City centre news – 14 July, 2010

    City centre news – 14 July, 2010

    The city centre news for 14 July: Birmingham bomb scare ‘was a hoax’ Express and Star A suspicious package which ground part of Birmingham city centre to a halt for five hours as roads were closed and trains suspended is believed to have been a ‘malicious hoax’ police have said. Plans for Irish Quarter collapse [...]

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  • City centre news – May 11

    City centre news – May 11

    The city centre news for 11 May: Birmingham’s Brindleyplace gains a new friend TheBusinessDesk ACCOUNTANCY and business advisory firm Friend LLP has become the latest tenant at Eleven Brindleyplace in Birmingham. Digbeth Institute to reopen following refurbishment Birmingham Mail A LEGENDARY Birmingham club is reopening for business with 1980s chart stars Heaven 17 the first [...]

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  • City centre news – May 3

    City centre news – May 3

    The city centre news for May 3: Joan Armatrading joins Walk of Stars in Birmingham Birmingham Post GRAMMY nominated singer and songwriter Joan Armatrading has been honoured on the Broad Street Walk of Stars. The 59-year old, who has been honoured by royalty and played for Nelson Mandela, received the award during her concert at Symphony [...]

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