Top Birmingham City Council Stories:
Jamaica trip to build ties (Birmingham Mail) Talks on cultural and business link up with Jamaica high on the agenda as Cllr Whitby begins four day visit to the Caribbean. Cllr Whitby will also be a dinner guest of Usain Bolt’s mother, as Lord Coe praises city’s efforts to reap rewards from 2012.
Rejection clue to screen switch off (Birmingham Mail) 10 months after being submitted planning application to turn on the Victoria Sq big screen is still ‘in the system’ with no prospect of being heard – with sources claiming it is because objections were so compelling as to make case for rejection seemingly overwhelming. Couns Ian Ward and Peter Douglas Osborne quoted.
Mayor’s medieval move (Birmingham Mail) Lord Mayor Councillor Michael Wilkes kicks off the festivities at the Bull Ring Markets Michaelmas Fayre by working a stall at the 3 day festival.
Store giant frustrated by hold up (Birmingham Mail) Tesco admits its frustration over a legal wrangle delaying its plans to build a new store at the former Swan Centre in Yardley.
Gold (The Stirrer) “The Staffordshire Saxon hoard is pulling in the punters at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery – but what do they find after joining the queue?”
Godsiff calls for Edgbaston lights deal (The Stirrer) “Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff is calling on the City Council to withhold its £20 million loan for the redevelopment of Edgbaston unless retractable floodlights are installed”.
Regional Headlines:
The Right Reverend Bernard Longley becomes the new Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham.
Solihull RUFC may face administration.
The campaigner at the centre of the care of patients at Staffs Hospital says she may stand for Parliament.
National Headlines:
Doctors in Norwich allowed a young woman to die after drinking poison in a suicide attempt because she had signed a “living will” that meant they could have been prosecuted if they intervened to save her life.
Plymouth nursery worker Vanessa George pleads guilty to 7 sex attacks on very young children and distributing child pornography.
Serious Fraud Office reveals it wants permission from the Attorney General to prosecute BAE over bribery allegations.
More than 500 people confirmed dead after 2nd serious earthquake measuring 6.8 hits Indonesian Island of Sumatra.
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