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Media Watch – Jan 25

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Published January 25, 2013, in Recommended


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Top Birmingham City Council Stories

Ambitious plan for growth goes to the core (Municipal Journal) The new cabinet of core cities has urged PM David Cameron and the Government to join it in ‘an ambitious programme for jobs and growth’.

Outrage at binmen who won’t work in the snow (Daily Express) Inaccurate story claiming bin collections have been cancelled in Birmingham this week as a consequence of the snow and ice. In fact, though there has been an inevitable backlog, refuse collectors have worked all week.

Boxing club bid refused (Birmingham Mail) A bid to convert unused industrial units into a boxing gym for inner-city youngsters has been rejected by city councillors.

Flat nod puts pub in danger (Birmingham Mail) Planners have approved the construction of a flat despite fears it could spark the demise of one of Birmingham’s best-known pubs (Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath).

href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/fury-at-birmingham-city-councils-800k-1240098">Anger at council’s £800k bill (Birmingham Mail) Cash-strapped Birmingham City Council has been hit with a bill of more than £800,000 after employing outside help to file accounts the year it axed accounting staff.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21182444">‘The vitals’ battling through the snow in the West Midlands (BBC) Article looking at how the Midlands has coped with the snow and ice this week praises gritting efforts in Birmingham.

Regional Headlines

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21185342">Girl ‘racially abused’ on street
/> An attack on a nine-year-old girl by a gang of boys is being treated as a racially aggravated crime, police say.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21188853">Community fuels soup kitchen
/> Businesses, residents, churches and agencies in Wolverhampton support a soup kitchen and food parcel project as demand grows.

National Headlines

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21190108">Clegg: Capital spending cut wrong
/> The coalition made a mistake in cutting back capital spending when it came into office, Nick Clegg says, as the UK’s latest GDP figures are awaited.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21176515">More snow forecast for parts of UK
/> There are warnings of further snow for the UK on Friday, as the weather continues to cause disruption in parts of the country.

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Media watch – Jan 24

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Published January 24, 2013, in Recommended


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Top Birmingham City Council Stories:

‘Disgrace’ of council’s £800,000 accounting shambles (Birmingham Post) Birmingham City Council has been hit with a bill of more than £800,000 after having to get outside help to file accounts for the year2010-11. Details were revealed in the draft accounts for 2011-12 after they were opened for inspection

City’s £15m ‘call to arms’ to tackle youth jobs crisis (Birmingham Post) Sir Albert Bore pledged a new campaign will make a huge difference to the city’s youth unemployment rates – one of the worst in the country

Bore joins supercabinet to battle ‘immoral cuts’ (Birmingham Post) The council leader has been given the transport portfolio in the core cities ‘supercabinet’

English exam fiasco fails to quell success in city/Birmingham bucks trend to post best ever results (Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail) Page of stories about Birmingham’s success in today’s national league tables. Cllr Brigid Jones quoted

School closures set firms back £100m as workers stay away (Birmingham Post) Business leaders have called for a more joined-up approach to school closures, estimating the city’s economy lost £100,000 in the cold snap

City’s smart thinking is ‘incomprehensible drivel’ (Birmingham Post) A vision statement for Birmingham’s bid to be at the forefront of the information age has been slated as ‘meaningless drivel’ by a council watchdog committee. Cllr James McKay rejected the criticism, saying it had been well-received by potential investors and the business community

Tip-top treasures saved from scrapheap (Birmingham Mail) The Re-users store at the council’s Norris Way recycling centre will stock restored items that would otherwise be thrown away. Cllr McKay quoted

Anger as snow puts freeze on bin collections (Birmingham Mail) Some rubbish has not been collected in Birmingham, Solihull and Dudley due to adverse weather.

Thumbs up to live viewings of meetings (Birmingham Mail) The decision to broadcast Birmingham council meetings online has raised the standard of debate, a report has concluded

Regional Headlines:

John Lewis hire 750 in Brum (Sun) Department store chain John Lewis wants to hire 750 staff for its new store opening in 2014 at New Street station

Signal failure hits rail services (BBC online) A number of train services are affected for a second day by signalling problems at New Street station

National Headlines:

Businesses divided over EU speech – The prime minister’s speech on a proposed referendum on EU membership has divided businesses

More immigration backlogs found – Immigration inspectors have found more UK Border Agency backlogs in its latest probe

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Media Watch – Jan 23

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Published January 23, 2013, in Recommended


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Top Birmingham City Council Stories

href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/22/cities-plans-efficient-spending-cuts">Cities’ plans for more efficient public spending could be thwarted by cuts (Guardian) Big cities want to join up their programmes to save billions of pounds. But the impact of cuts could cancel out any gains. Sir Albert Bore quoted.

Church clash with government looms (Financial Times) A clash is looming between the Church of England and the government after the bishop of Liverpool denounced cuts to council funding as unfair because they ignored the deep deprivation in many English cities. Sir Albert Bore quoted.

href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/new-15m-drive-to-help-a-thousand-1232131">£15m project boost for young jobless (Birmingham Mail, BBC, Birmingham Post) A £15 million crusade has been launched to get 1,000 of Birmingham’s young job hunters off the dole queue. The cash will subsidise training and apprenticeship costs in a bid to encourage firms to hire some of the city’s 15,000 under-25s who are unemployed – 3,000 of those being out of work for more than a year. The initiative, launched yesterday, was the key proposal arising from the Birmingham Commission on Youth Unemployment, set up by Labour city council leader Sir Albert Bore last year.

Mayor’s dinner bill is slashed (Birmingham Mail) The cost of a slap-up dinner to welcome Birmingham’s new Lord Mayor will be slashed by £15 per head, following revelations it cost a staggering £27,000 last year.

 href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-city-council-will-consult-interest-1232127">Wheel listen to bin views, says council (Birmingham Mail) Council surveyors will visit every home in Birmingham before finally rolling out wheelie bins across the city, it has emerged.

Protests to council over budget cuts (Birmingham Mail) Campaigners battling against council cuts are to demonstrate at two key budget meetings next month.

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Regional Headlines

 href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21157320">Snow leads schools to remain shut
/> About 40 schools are shut or partially closed in the West Midlands after more snow fell overnight.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21151571">Bomb suspects ‘told outlandish lies’
/> Three men accused of planning suicide bombings told “outrageous and outlandish lies” to escape justice, a jury hears.

National Headlines

 href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21148282">PM pledges in/out referendum on EU
/> David Cameron says the British people must “have their say” on Europe as he pledges an in/out referendum if the Conservatives win the election.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21156370">Major changes to A-levels planned
/> Changes to A-levels in England will reduce the number of exams taken by sixth formers and make the qualification more rigorous, the education secretary announces.

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Media Watch – Jan 22

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Published January 22, 2013, in Recommended


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Top Birmingham City Council Stories

Snow costs Brum £50m a day (Birmingham Mail) Business Chamber of Commerce chief exec Jerry Blackett claiming city’s economy being ‘devastated’ by schools closures, as 300 schools in the city closed yesterday following the weekend snow.

Survey tackles loan sharks (Birmingham Mail) BCC-based Illegal Money Lending Team appealing for people to complete its online survey.

Hundreds in petition to ban lorries (Birmingham Mail) Calls to limit the number of lorries using A435 Kings Heath High Street. Cllr Lisa Trickett quoted.

Driver defies death as barrier smashes car (Daily Express) Gala Leisure Ltd fined £25,000 after pensioner injured by a car park barrier. Cllr Barbara Dring and Mark Croxford, BCC Head of Environmental Health quoted.

Boost for Manufacturing Supply Chains (Business Today) More than 2,160 jobs to be created through Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative. Leader quoted.

Regional Headlines

Dozens of schools across the West Midlands remain fully or partially closed due to freezing temperatures and snow.

Birmingham has more hyperlocal news websites than any other council area, according to research from Birmingham City University.

National Headlines

Death penalty for British woman convicted of trafficking cocaine in Bali.

Ministry of Defence to unveil plans for a third round of Army job losses. A higher proportion of compulsory redundancies expected among about 5,000 axed posts.

Travel disruption continues in snow. Disruption set to continue for a further day as snow and ice persist across large parts of the country.

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Media Watch – Jan 21

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Published January 21, 2013, in Recommended


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Top Birmingham City Council Stories

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21117122">Snow closes hundreds of schools (BBC) More than 500 schools are closed in the West Midlands as snow and freezing temperatures continue to cause widespread disruption.

href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/revealed-the-600-birmingham-eateries-failing-1227456">Time to clean up your act (Birmingham Mail) Hundreds of city restaurants, shops, takeaways, schools and businesses have been ordered to take urgent action after failing to provide basic standards of hygiene. Some of the city’s best known eateries have fallen foul of council environmental health inspectors.

Law’s on your side when paying for goods online (Birmingham Mail) Birmingham City Council’s Jacqui Kennedy offers advice to people buying goods online.

Probe over online monkey offer scam (Birmingham Mail) Consumer watchdogs in Birmingham have launched a probe into an internet scam involving con merchants offering to give away monkeys.

Brum booze crisis: 115,000 risk health (Birmingham Mail) Around 115,000 people in Birmingham are risking their health by drinking too much, costing the city’s economy an estimated £200 million a year.

href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bishop-of-liverpool-launches-scathing-attack-on-government-cuts-programme-8458004.html">Government’s cuts run deeper in poorer areas (Independent) Coverage of the council summit on spending cuts.

Regional Headlines

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21117511">Woman killed in fire at property
/> A woman is pronounced dead at the scene of a fire in Birmingham.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-21098295">Travel warning over snow and ice in the West Midlands
/> People should only travel if essential and take extra care on roads and pavements as icy conditions continue, the ambulance service said.

National Headlines

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21115692">PM to give Algeria aftermath update
/> David Cameron will address MPs on the Algerian hostage crisis later, as efforts continue to locate three remaining Britons feared dead.

href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21118230">Three men arrested over PC death
/> A third man is arrested after an off-duty police officer died following an assault in Greater Manchester.

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