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Lawyers take protest against legal aid cuts to Birmingham Crown Court
Economic Development
Law Society and Bar Council join forces to oppose Ministry of Justice cutbacks
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Movie Review: The Purge
Retail & Consumer
The Purge suggests that for one night every year, citizens can take up knives and guns to kill anyone they choose without legal reprisals.
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New centres for sex crime victims to be run by G4S
Economic Development
Security firm G4S has been appointed to operate two support centres for rape and sex attack victims in the West Midlands.
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Martin Allsopp: Undermining the balance to justice
Economic Development
One of the reasons the British legal system is regarded as the fairest in the world it that the scales of justice are balanced evenly for accusers and the accused.
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Muslim father found pig's head on his driveway, court told
Economic Development
A BIRMINGHAM man has gone on trial accused of leaving a pig’s head on a Muslim father’s drive- way.
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Accountant jailed in £1 million VAT fraud
Economic Development
A corrupt chartered accountant from Birmingham has been jailed for three years for defrauding the British taxpayer of more than £1 million in unpaid VAT.
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Chris Game: Has No.10 lost its bottle on alcohol pricing?
Economic Development
Chris Game examines an issue notable by its absence in the Queen's Speech - minimum pricing for alcohol.
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Queen's Speech: "A blueprint for those who want to work hard"
Economic Development
A crackdown on immigration and measures to boost the economy were at the heart of the Queens Speech as the Government set out its legislative programme for the next 12 months.
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Movie Review: Deadfall
Retail & Consumer
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won an Oscar for his 2007 film The Counterfeiters, abandons the subtleties of that picture for the cliches and contrivance of this disjointed crime thriller, penned by first-time screenwriter Zach Dean.
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Police cuts will lead to more crime, warns commissioner
Economic Development
The region's new crime commissioner is to review every police station in the region to see if it can be closed down amid fears of even greater cuts to officer numbers.
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Cuts could mean more crime, warns police chief
Economic Development
The region’s new crime commissioner is to review every police station in the region to see if it can be closed down amid fears of even greater cuts to officer numbers.
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Carlton Pollock jailed for ten years over fatal stabbing
Economic Development
A killer who stabbed his friend in the heart has started a ten-year jail term.
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Peter Sharkey: Huge profits out-muscling the war on drugs in sport
Economic Development
Imagine the enormous returns on investment available should you be in a position to both supply performance-enhancing drugs to sportsmen and then illegally influence a sporting outcome after you’ve also bribed the referee.
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Post-mortem on Moseley pensioner attacked in her sleep
Economic Development
Emma Winnall, 93, died in hospital on Tuesday, nearly a month after she was found badly beaten in her bed in Moseley
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Bankrupt financier Gary Hexley sorry to clients for 'awful situation'
Banking & Finance
Banned financier Gary Hexley has broken his silence over the £2 million collapse of his firm – and said he was “desperately sorry” for leaving over 200 creditors facing losses of up to £80,000.
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Investors call for new probe into collapsed Sutton Coldfield financial adviser
Banking & Finance
Pensioners caught up in a £2 million-plus trail of heartbreak and misery left by a disgraced financial adviser have called for a new police investigation.
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Woman found dead in Harborne suffered face and neck injuries
West Midlands Police
Detectives investigating the murder of an elderly woman at her home in a quiet Birmingham suburb said she died of facial and neck injuries.
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Terry Grimley: Wrongful conviction is brought to stage
Economic Development
A once notorious miscarriage of justice in the Edwardian West Midlands, the Great Wyrley Outrages, is the subject for a new play by Birmingham writer David Edgar which will have its premiere at Birmingham Rep next spring.
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After the fall of apartheid
Retail & Consumer
John Kani talks to Terry Grimley about his new play.
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How Aston Manor is bubbling
Economic Development
Managing director Peter Ellis spoke out for the first time about his sense of betrayal by a trusted colleague who schemed to target a key rival's products
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Tyson has a right to earn his living in our society
Economic Development
The campaign to ban Iron Mike from Birmingham is misguided, argues Ian Clarkson...
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Four guilty of Birmingham New Year murders
Economic Development
Four men were found guilty of murdering two teenage girls who were gunned down outside a New Year party in 2003
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