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Daily Archives: 15 August, 2012

Trees, buses and vistas – Welcome to Paradise

Alan Clawley has spotted that plans for the redevelopment of Birmingham’s Paradise Circus seem to be lacking something.

15 August, 2012 in Architecture, Birmingham, Property Press, Transport.

‘Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.’

Laurence Inman has body-image issues but, in his quest for the Thin Man, he might have found the answer with a new invention.

15 August, 2012 in Features, Food and drink, Most recent.

Birmingham’s visitor numbers reach new high

Birmingham attracted an additional 740,000 visitors last year according to new figures. Visitor numbers rose to 33.5m in 2011, up from 32.8m in 2010. The overall value of the city’s visitor economy is now £4.9bn.

15 August, 2012 in Birmingham, Business, Tourism.

A letter from Italy: Rain won’t stop us

Chiara Fiorillo is a young student who lives in a small village near Caserta. She dreams of becoming a journalist and we are happy to help her on the way by publishing this and some of her photos she kindly sent.

15 August, 2012 in Birmingham, Features, Tourism, Travel.

Gig Review: Yeah Yeah Noh Hare & Hounds 7th July 2012

Paul Samuels was always a big fan of YYN’s twangy guitar, skinny rib psychedelia and excellent lyrics. Here, he reviews one of their recent gigs.

15 August, 2012 in Birmingham, Music.

Here we go…

Terry Wills looks forward to another season at the Hawthorns.

15 August, 2012 in Comment, Football, Most recent, West Bromwich.

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