Top Birmingham City Council Stories:
Gypsies win £200,000 from city taxpayers (Birmingham Mail 3 September) A family accused of squatting on council land has won a court case against being being evicted from an official travellers’ site on a technicality. Cllr Lines says the money should be spent improving homes for council tenants
More gypsies set up camp before Papal visit (Birmingham Mail 3 September) Solihull council’s planning chair says provision of temporary sites should rest with BCC if travellers say they want to see the Pope
Football pitches closed in Cofton park (WM 3 September) On the day BCC is to announce road closures around the park for the Papal visit, WM discusses closure of football pitches
Parks are like a war zone – leisure chief (Birmingham Mail 3 September) Cllr Mullaney has said some of the city’s 400 parks are so ravaged by vandalism they are like war zones
Saddened by £38m pool cut (Birmingham Mail 3 September) Vox pop of families responding to plans to scale back plans for multi-million pound leisure centre near the NIA. Cllr Mullaney says project could be scaled down to £20m
Regional Headlines:
Papal visit (WM 3 September) Woman says she will not attend mass because pilgrims will have to start arriving in early hours of the morning. Canon Pat Browne says there will be approx 3,000 coaches bringing in pilgrims
Complaints against rude police officers increase (Birmingham Mail 3 September) WMP has defended its officers’ conduct following a report into the number of complainst against them
Potholes could see bus route dropped (Birmingham Mail 3 September) National Express has threatened to suspend a service through King’s Heath if potholes are not filled in. Cllr Summerfield said contractor Amey has been dragging its heals over repairs
National Headlines:
Start of Middle East talks in Washington
Pakistan cricket trio charges by ICC
BBC defends Thompson Downing Street visit
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