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Oi! Tin-Tin, no!

Stephen “TinTin” Duffy, the fantastic feller from the Lilac Time (and Alum Rock) become the songwriter for that fat prat from Stoke, Robbie Williams. Please say it aint so, Stephen.

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New Zephaniah book

And interview here.

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Wanna make movies

Rotunda Films has been set up this year and is looking for talented film maker to get involved and help raise the profile of the city’s film industry, non exsistent as it is right now. They have already started their first feature film and they need as much support as they can get in order to make it a success.

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must we put up with this drivel

about being the home city of wizards and dwarfs and stuff like that??

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1963, a vintage year?

Tons of photos taken all around Brum in 1963. Search round the whole site tho’ & there may be some from other years too.

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Sing something simple

Or if you can’t, get Britain’s Footy Chant Laureate to write sommat for ya. The Blues fan even writes them about the villa.

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a candidate for Brum’s hardest landlord

Good job he only wants to fight that Riverdance bloke.

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Shakey’s will

Not not the Welsh Elvis, see what Brummie Bard might have left you – at this new government online famous people’s wills page.

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Stan Collymore galley

Totally safe for work, a nice gallery of pics of Cannok’s finest.

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