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John Madin, Central Library Architect, kicks Council butt in the Post

"The City of Birmingham deserves a fine civic and cultural centre. The concept has been clearly set out in the master plan for the whole of the civic centre and the design of the library and approved by the city council but Coun Whitby and Mr Clive Dutton appear to be determined to destroy the civic and cultural centre in favour of promoting commercial development. "

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City Council puts the wrong Birmingham in the picture – Birmingham Post

“Birmingham City Council has been left red-faced after using a photograph of Birmingham, Alabama, in an official leaflet about recyling in the city.” More worrying is the way they must have got the image (a swift google image search anyone?) — I bet it isn’t copyright cleared as an image library would have mentioned the US-iness of the pic.

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The Book for Birmingham – nominations open

To celebrate the National Year of Reading Birmingham Libraries want to capture the city's reading choices and ultimately find the "The Book for Birmingham". You can nominate a book any time up to 17 August 2008.

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Flapper flap

Flapper flap

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! What he said (Antonio’s open letter).

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Mercat under threat

The open early pub known variously as The Merecat, ‘Moonsoon Nights’ and ‘Jesus that looks rough’ looks set to be shut when the council sell the land and move the “largest integrated market in europe” — the wholesale markets — out of the city centre. Reports that the sale of land could be worth up to £200M, cloud for me at least talk of a larger site for market expansion. My main worry here is that five miles (radius) puts the new wholesale market anywhere on this map — which could significantly change the business for the stallholders (not to mention that the Bull Ring Market traders aren’t going to be able to wheel fruit and veg across the path of your bus without looking). View Larger Map Thanks to Birmingham Central Blog for the factual lowdown that underpins this nostalgic supisciosty.

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Twitter Election 2008

Twitter Election 2008

You might not think the most fun you can have of an evening is to watch one man gamely present a webcast for four hours while chatting on the internet, but an evening in the presence of Adrian Goldberg and Brum’s twitterverse was good enough for me. Together we could enjoy the local elections. Adrian really held together a potentially toe-curling show, and the usual suspects online were great entertainment, cheering on pac-man (the webcast graphics), wondering if Adrian was getting a Napoleon complex, ah well. If you fancy reading it (you’ll have to go from bottom to top) it’s here as text, here still on the web, and here as a huge pdf (5mb).

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Watch out, Brasso’s About

Watch out, Brasso’s About

Sinister looking bull in today’s (content rich for once) Birmingham Bulletin email from the Council. I don’t know whether it’s because his ears look like earrings for his horns, or just his expression – there’s a slight hint that the book he’s got is a cookbook and he’s looking at the ingredients.

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