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bbc.co.uk | Sarah Julian |Shyamantha Asokan
Media caption, 'Birmingham needs morale boosting'Joe Lycett said that, as a new dad, he was visiting the rubbish tip "more regularly than most" during Birmingham's ongoing bin strikes, to offload dirty nappies and wipes. "I go to the tip, I would say, every fortnight. Tyseley's my favourite," the Brummie comedian, who has a six-month-old son, joked in an interview with BBC Radio WM.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
msn.com | Gavin Kermack |Sarah Julian
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
aol.com | Gavin Kermack |Sarah Julian
Bin workers in Birmingham staged a protest outside the council's HQ as part of ongoing industrial action over pay. More than 350 staff voted to strike in December over changes their union said would see dozens of them take an £8,000 pay cut. "The council need to get the message," said Onay Kasab, Unite's lead national officer.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
msn.com | Sarah Julian |Shyamantha Asokan
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Julian |Josh Sandiford
Sharon Osbourne has welcomed news her husband Ozzy Osbourne and his Black Sabbath bandmates are set to receive the Freedom of Birmingham. Speaking to BBC Radio WM, the TV personality and former X Factor judge said her husband was very excited and "it means a lot to him to be recognised [by] his home". Later on Tuesday, Birmingham City Council will discuss a proposal to award City Freeman status to the four founding members of the band, which formed in Aston in 1968.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Julian |Shyamantha Asokan
Birmingham's St Patrick's Day Parade will return to its "traditional home" this spring for the first time in six years, its organiser said. The parade will take place on the high street in Digbeth, a neighbourhood known as the city's Irish Quarter, from midday on 16 March. The annual event was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, and was not held for the subsequent three years due to roadworks and regeneration in Digbeth.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Julian |Tanya Gupta
A man whose house in Los Angeles is now a pile of ash has told how he stood in his road with smaller fires all around him, hot embers falling from the sky and a bank of flames from the wildfire ahead. Dr Warren Skidmore, an astrophysicist originally from Wordsley, near Stourbridge, said the Eaton fire approached and "engulfed" everything. His home, where he lived with his wife and two daughters, has been reduced to rubble with just the chimney stack still standing.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Julian |Shyamantha Asokan
A Black Country steelworks that operated for 125 years has been commemorated with a large sculpture near its former site. The former Round Oak Steelworks in Brierley Hill, which operated from 1857 until 1982, was a major employer in the town. The 14-foot (4m) sculpture, designed by Dudley borough artist Steve Field, has gone on display at the junction of Dudley Road and John Street.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sarah Julian |Shyamantha Asokan
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Sarah Julian |Clare Lissaman
The charities are appealing for good quality coats for adults and children [Getty Images]Charities are asking anyone who has a coat they do not wear to consider donating it. The Human Appeal starts its Wrap Up campaign next week while Sparkhill-based Narthex will distribute collected adults and children's coats, jackets and jumpers from its foodbank hubs in Birmingham.
