Tag: headlines
Media Watch – October 16
Top Birmingham City Council stories City has to use Cornish workers to roll out new wheelie bins (Birmingham Mail, p6 lead): Report about 30 workers being brought up from Cornwall to help with the delivery of new wheelie bins, as only a “very small number” of firms offer this service and no local companies bid […]
Media Watch – October 7
Top Birmingham City Council stories The towpath muggers (BBC WM, Birmingham Mail, p1 & p 4 lead): Report on spate of attacks on cyclists using the canal towpaths near the Ackers Basin. Refers to the £60m Birmingham Cycle Revolution project to improve canal towpaths. Cllr Lisa Trickett quoted. Councillor quits cabinet in Bore leadership row […]
Media Watch - September 30
Top Birmingham City Council stories Bournville no longer ‘dry’ as newsagent gains booze licence (Birmingham Mail, page 2 lead): Coverage of decision made by Licensing Sub Committee B to grant Mary Vale News a licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises. This article fails to make clear that the shop is located outside […]
Media Watch - September 23
Birmingham City Council stories Broken promises on missed bins because of flaw in the system (Birmingham Mail, page 2 lead): Story based on a computer ‘glitch’ that does not allow residents who do not report missed bin collections within 24 hours to lodge a complaint with the council. Deputy Leader, Cllr Lisa Trickett and Cllr […]
Media Watch – August 19
Top Birmingham City Council stories Taylor Wimpey in payments battle over Calthorpe Estate project (Birmingham Post website): The construction firm has challenged the financial agreement, known as a Section 106, to pay £180,000 towards affordable housing as part of its plans to build 43 homes on a site in Highfield Road, Edgbaston. The company claim […]
Media Watch – August 5
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 […]
Media Watch – July 22
Top Birmingham City Council £1.5m mission to get Brum running (Birmingham Mail): Coverage of the launch of RUN Birmingham – a joint initiative between the council, Sport England, England Athletics and the Great Run company – at Aston Hall. Mission aims to get people who don’t exercise to start running. Deputy Leader Cllr Ward quoted. […]
Media Watch – July 20
Top Birmingham City Council stories Half of Brum kids living in the country’s poorest areas (Birmingham Mail and BBC WM): Research by Birmingham Child Poverty Commission reveals nearly 137,000 under 18s live in some of the most deprived parts of the city – including Sparkbrook and Nechells. Birmingham city councillor, Jess Phillips MP quoted. Man […]
Media Watch – July 15
Top Birmingham City Council stories Pupils vanishing from classrooms are at risk from radicalisation (widespread national and local coverage): Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted, warns that ‘potentially high number of pupils’ disappearing from school registers represents a serious safeguarding issue. Ofsted found 357 pupils had left seven schools in Birmingham and the London Borough […]
Media Watch – June 12
Top Birmingham City Council stories Left to die in the pub (Birmingham Mail): A drunken man died in The Gunmakers Arms, Bath Street, after the bar’s supervisor had locked up the premises to go and have a late night meal, it has been claimed. The premises licence is to be reviewed by Licensing sub-committee next […]
