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panto horse grand national ’06 vids

having filmed our very own bounder romp home in a spectacular booby-prize-winning last place on horsey brummieoftheyear in 2005′s Pantomime Horse Grand National; we only went and forgot (doh) to film B:iNS rep for the 2006 race, Mick riding Airbiscuit, who left the competition standing and actually won the race (yay!). our 2005 vid: luckily, today we discovered that chrishamsandwich was up to job and has a couple of vids on youtube. chrishamsandwich’s 2006 vids: go airbiscuit!!!

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destination brum

apparently Birmingham is the new hot destination for city breaks (that’s ‘hot’ as in ‘cool’ not ‘hot’ as in ‘scorchio’). Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen investigates as part of this evening’s Holiday 2007 – 7pm, BBC1

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brmb on cutting edge shocker

brmb on cutting edge shocker

I hate brmb, it’s nothing personal, I hate most commercial radio stations. However, someone in their marketing department has their finger on the pulse and have made the most of new trend for reverse graffiti. Spotted on Holloway Circus (affectionately known as the ‘Pagoda Island’ according to Five Live) this morning. God knows what V-day is – Valentines Day? some crappy competition which humiliates some poor listener or even puts their health at risk?

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temper temper

temper temper

congratulations to graffiti artist Temper who has been commissioned to do a piece for The Cube after winning a national competition. (via The ArtLounge)

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