Posts Tagged ‘ mayor ’

Sion Simon resigns as Minister and MP – Tom Watson MP

3 February 2010
By Jon Bounds

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...
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That hast du heut

10 November 2009
By Jon Bounds

It’s expensive beer-drinking in the cold time again from this Thursday when Mayor Hobbit will be joined by the German Ambassado and “German pop sensation Patrick Lindner” to open the Frankfurt Christmas Market (which of course happens in Birmingham, the Birmingham Christmas Market happens in Frankfurt) No word on if he’ll be singing his...
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Tories plan for elected mayors

17 February 2009
By Jon Bounds

So, IF the Tories win the next election AND IF the peope of Brum vote in a referendum to have an elected mayor (which they've not shown any great interest in so far) THEN Brmingham will have an election for a mayor. I have long said that if that happens I'll stand – so...
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And you thought Midlands Today was exciting

19 October 2008
By Jon Bounds

More video gold, in monochrome, from MACE. From 1957, entitled simply “Lord Mayor sees biggest tyre in the country”: Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { 'allowfullscreen': 'true', 'allowscriptaccess': 'always', 'wmode': 'transparent' }; var attributes = { 'id': 'video0', 'name': 'video0'}; var flashvars = { 'file' : 'http://www.macearchive.org/SiteData/Default/Media/1872_0.flv', 'image'...
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Cats like Felix like local politics

10 April 2008
By Jon Bounds
Cats like Felix like local politics

Felix the cat food are staging a marketing campaign at the moment, not only were they projecting paw prints in the middle of the night onto Brum landmarks and buying a wrap-around in the Birmingham News free paper they were dressed up as cats with placards outside the Council House today. Unusualy the placards...
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Moseley Baths, 100 not out

30 October 2007
By Jon Bounds

It’s a long way from Victoria Square to Moseley Road Baths, but at noon today as part of the bath’s 100th birthday celebrations some daft sods will be walking  “the route that the Deputy Mayor took in 1907 to open the Baths for the first time” – wearing swimming costumes from through the ages....
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