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Big John’s Birmingham Mela celebrations at Cannon Hill Park

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Big John’s Birmingham Mela returns to Cannon Hill Park on Sunday, 16 August, celebrating the diversity of the city’s South Asian community through its culture, food, sport, art and entertainment. Now in its 15th year, this free family event includes live music from an array of artists, headlined by Miss Pooja. Other performers include Hunterz, […]

Today’s Birmingham City Council meetings – August 11

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Click on the link below for details of today’s Birmingham City Council meetings. https://birmingham.cmis.uk.com/birmingham/Meetings.aspx

Health boost as Birmingham teens snub smoking

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Birmingham 15-year-olds are far less likely to be smokers than their counterparts elsewhere in the country, according to major new report.

Café fined £7,000 for displaying out of date food

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A popular Birmingham café has been fined £7,000 for seven offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 and Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 at Birmingham Magistrates Court today (5 August 2015). Canalside Café Ltd, based in Worcester Bar, near Gas Street - which pleaded guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing (22 […]

Britain in Bloom Judging Tour comes to Birmingham

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12 Days, 18 Judges, 70 Finalists and 1 Champion of Champions: The Britain in Bloom with the RHS 2015 UK Finals Judging Tour comes to Birmingham on 7 August From Coupar Angus to Jersey, Great Yarmouth to Derry, over a 12-day period starting on Monday, 3 August, nine pairs of Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) judges […]

Media Watch – August 5

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Top Birmingham City Council stories More abuse victims join legal action (BBC News online): A former pupil of Ilmington Road Comprehensive School speaks out about how he was abused by former teacher Marcus Marcussen, 91, who was jailed in February for nine years for abusing boys at the school in Weoley Castle between 1957 and […]

Phones trader sentenced to 16 weeks in prison

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A Birmingham business owner who sold unsafe mobile phone chargers as well as counterfeit goods has been sentenced to 16 weeks’ imprisonment at Birmingham Magistrates Court today (4 August 2015). Mohammed Ibrar, 45, trading as Bling Bling Phones, based at Alum Rock Road, Alum Rock, pleaded guilty to nine offences at an earlier hearing 11 […]

Trader jailed for five months for conning car buyer

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A Birmingham car trader was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment for trying to sell a used car that was unroadworthy, at Birmingham Crown Court today (4 August 2015). Neil Gaffney, 46, of Burley Way, Kings Norton, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 on 13 July 2015 for […]

Your chance to become a Birmingham Ambassador during Super September

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Volunteers are being sought to become Birmingham Ambassadors during a month of high profile events expected to bring tens of thousands of visitors to the city in September. Birmingham Ambassadors will be the public face of the city for visitors during key events such as the Rugby World Cup matches at Villa Park on September […]