Top Birmingham City Council Stories
Food officers appalled by dirty takeaway (Birmingham Mail) The owner of a ‘filthy’ Birmingham takeaway has been fined hundreds of pounds after admitting flouting a catalogue of food hygiene laws.
Widespread coverage of top local government earners, highlighting Birmingham City Council Chief Executive Stephen Hughes (Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express)
Volunteers’ ‘free work’ worth £4m (Birmingham Mail) Volunteers working in Birmingham parks, sports clubs and community centres carry out more than £4.6 million worth of unpaid work a year according to a new city council study.
Birmingham City Council wastes money with wrong waste leaflets (Sunday Mercury) Cash-strapped council bosses have been left red-faced after delivering thousands of glossy leaflets about cutting waste to the wrong homes.
Regional Headlines
Islam row school shut ‘for safety’ (Birmingham Mail) A Birmingham Islamic school (Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Small Heath) at the centre of a documentary row will shut tomorrow amid safety fears.
Birmingham City University hosts serious crime seminars
Child murder, so-called “honour” killings and serious crimes will be looked at in a series of criminal investigation seminars in Birmingham.
Wolverhampton club evacuated as fire breaks out
Forty people were moved out of a working men’s club in Wolverhampton as a fire broke out nearby.
National Headlines
David Cameron vows to make Big Society succeed
David Cameron will say it is his “mission in politics” to make the Big Society succeed – amid claims it is being wrecked by spending cuts.
British commander: Momentum in Helmand is ‘shifting’
The tide is turning against insurgency in the Afghan province of Helmand, a British commander says.
Nikitta Grender murder accused due in court
A 26-year-old man is due to appear in court charged with murdering pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender in Newport.
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