Monthly Archives: February 2010

Swan Yardley, does anyone know what's going on?

The saga of the proposed Tesco at the Swan is still going on. "Jeremy Knight-Adams is a property developer and investor who was born and brought up in Birmingham. He has been responsible for a number of high quality retail schemes over the past three decades, in Birmingham and elsewhere." He's against the Compulsory Purchase Order for the Swan site so much that he's put up a website with his alternative plans on in. Unfortunately I can't tell you about it as "It is not permitted to create a link nor to make any alterations or additions to the material on this website without JKA's consent." (oops)

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mac re-opeining 1 May 2010 – BiNS PR

The Midland Arts Centre re-opens in a couple of months. I've heard about some of the stuff going on around that time already, and while I won't spoil the surprise it sounds like it'll be great.

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Sion Simon resigns as Minister and MP – Tom Watson MP

Sion, MP for Erdington and Minster for Culture Media and Sport is standing down. Tom Watson tells us: "My colleague Sion Simon thinks mayors are going to be introduced whoever wins the next election. So he’s standing down as an MP to put his name forward as Mayor of Birmingham." Mayor Simon? It's got a ring to it, and he'd certainly be a more serious candidate than any other we've heard mentioned.

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Danny Smith: Up Bournville Boulevard

Danny Smith: Up Bournville Boulevard

Last Tuesday Jon sent me to cover the BBC WM public forum debate about the Kraft takeover of Cadbury, it was held in Bournville. Bournville, for those of you that don’t know, was built by the do-gooding Cadbury family who thought booze was the devil’s piss. Subsequently it’s dryer than Gandhi’s Black and Decker belt sander. Jon sent me for three reasons; one, Jon is a cruel bastard; two, he had a strong idea that I would find it a boring waste of time; and three, if he and Carl Chinn actually meet the universe will turn inside out and reality itself’ll get torn a new arsehole. The reaction to the news across the the media has ranged from the predicable hysterical cloying nostalgia of ‘oh no they’re going to make wispas taste of Stilton and and shoot curly wurlys into space, how dare they mess with things from my childhood’. To the sort of surprising cynical capitalism normally reserved for European baddies in Die Hard. Myself, although concerned about the job losses, didn’t really give too much of a toss. Cadbury’s as a company has been floated as public stock since 1962 where it set about swallowing smaller...

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