Media Watch
Today’s Birmingham City Council news from a variety of sources.
Media Watch - May 15
Top Birmingham City Council Stories Digbeth snooker club saw predators hiring out rooms to abuse underage girls, police report claims (Birmingham Mail) A Birmingham snooker club has been accused of operating as an underage sex den with customers “hiring out rooms” to groom and abuse girls. Police have also linked four missing children reports to […]
Media Watch - May 14
Top Birmingham City Council Stories: ‘We’ll create powerhouse like no other’ (Birmingham Post, Birmingham Mail) Work to create a West Midlands-wide authority stronger than any other in the country has begun. Quotes Sir Albert Bore saying he was expecting progress on a vital combined authority within weeks. Concerns over changes to leisure centres (BBC WM) […]
Media Watch – May 13
Top Birmingham City Council stories School academy bid sparks teacher strike (extensive local coverage): Report on the strike at Small Heath School today, where members of three teachers’ unions – NUT, NASUWT and ATL – are staging a protest against plans to turn the school into an academy. A council spokesperson said neither the school […]
Media Watch - May 12
Top Birmingham City Council Stories: Street silenced as rush hour hit by roadworks (Birmingham Mail) Part of Broad Street was ‘eerily’ quiet yesterday, because it was shut due to the next stage of Paradise roadworks. Quotes traffic manager Kevin Hicks Drivers delayed as roadworks start (BBC online) Drivers were stuck in traffic as the next […]
Media Watch - May 11
Top Birmingham City Council Stories: Extensive coverage of local election results (Birmingham Mail, Saturday) Includes quotes from Sir Albert Bore saying he would wait with interest to see if Birmingham City Council would get a fairer funding deal once David Cameron unveils his new cabinet, plus an interview with Cllr Alex Yip, Birmingham’s first Chinese […]
Media Watch - May 8
General election results are in for the city (Extensive coverage) Just one of Birmingham’s ten Parliamentary seats changed hands – Yardley
Media Watch - May 7
Top Birmingham City Council Stories: Chinese tycoons to fund key city schemes (Birmingham Post, Birmingham Mail) A consortium of Chinese and Taiwanese billionaires have reportedly expressed an early-stage interest in investing in major regeneration schemes such as Curzon Street, Birmingham Smithfield and UK Central. Schools ‘should let boys choose to wear skirts’ (Independent, i) Schools […]
Media Watch - May 6
Top Birmingham City Council Stories Continued widespread coverage of the Local Election campaign. Election 2015: What CAN’T you do in a polling station? (BBC) The process of voting in a UK polling station hasn’t changed much in years. But what is and isn’t allowed in there? Rob Connelly, head of electoral services in Birmingham City […]
Media Watch - May 5
Top Birmingham City Council Stories: Trojan Horse coverage (Daily Mail, Birmingham Mail, Times, BBC online and WM) Claims made at a teachers’ conference that hardliners are still ‘active’ in schools. A city council spokesperson said none of these allegations had previously been reported to the council, but they would now be looked into Host of […]
Media Watch - May 1
Top Birmingham City Council Stories Continued widespread coverage of the local election campaign. CSE: Organised crime gangs forcing vulnerable victims into prostitution in Birmingham and West Midlands (Birmingham Mail) Organised crime gangs have been officially linked to child sexual exploitation in a bombshell problem profile – and are forcing some young victims into prostitution. Little […]
