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Still Walking

A festival of walking taking place across Birmingham, 15th March – 1st April 2012. Artists, architects, historians, ramblers and lovers will show you the city in a new a light…

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Saltley Gate 40th Anniversary Rally – Battle of Saltley Gate

Saltley Gate 40th Anniversary Rally 11am Friday 10th Feb at the site Nr Saltley Gate Roundabout Speakers from the Strike & Current Struggles & performance by Banner Theatre We are commemorating the day that 30,000 Birmingham Trade Unionists went on strike in support of the National Union of Mineworkers in their bid for fair pay. 15,000 engineering workers picketed to close the gates of the last remaining open fuel depot – Saltley.

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Russ L’s Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands – February 2012

You know the drill…

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Walk of Fame for King’s Heath

"A Walk of Fame is to be created along York Road to celebrate King’s Heath’s musical and comic heritage that will include a specially commissioned floral display featuring a guitar and microphone. York Road has been chosen because it contains the Hare and Hounds where UB40 and Frank Skinner started their careers and the Cash Converters building which was previously the Ritz Ballroom – one of 4 ballrooms run in the 1960’s by Irish husband and wife team Mary (Ma) and Joe (Pa) Regan – where most of the famous groups and artists of the 1960’s played."

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Today – Birmingham ‘beats space’ as tourist destination

Little bit of vanity, this was me on the radio.

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Why contribute to the spread of ugliness?

Alan Clawley reviews Stuart Whipps's new exhibition at the Ikon gallery.

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Libraries Petition And Campaign by Birmingham Against The Cuts

Libraries are to open reduced hours, Birmingham Against The Cuts is organising protest.

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NUJ Public Meeting – "Crisis in Midlands Journalism"

With the BBC cuts, and those at the Post and Mail, is it the end for journalism round this way?

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An old punk’s elegy for The Old Wharf

Sad as another boozer bites the dust.

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