back in birmingham, the extent — failure. back in birmingham, the extent of— failure.ham, the extent of strikes - failure. back in birmingham, the extent of strikes has - failure. back in birmingham, the extent of strikes has led| the extent of strikes has led some to reflect on the government's approach. i totally agree with it.- totally agree with it. with what the _ totally agree with it. with what the government - totally agree with it. with i what the government says? definitely. when the train stop the country stop and we are in enough trouble as it is. everyone should have the right to strike — everyone should have the right to strike if that is what the trade _ to strike if that is what the trade unions want and the government should comply with it. , . , government should comply with it. ,. , . ., ., it. this city centre tailoring sho is it. this city centre tailoring shop is been _ it. this city centre tailoring shop is been directly - it. this city centre tailoring . shop is been directly affected. staff are struggling to get in on strike days but karolina t

birmingham knocking out every ten one of the upsets.— birmingham knocking out every ten one of the upsetsof the upsets. exactly. so there is proof right _ one of the upsets. exactly. so there is proof right there, _ one of the upsets. exactly. so there is proof right there, that _ is proof right there, that experience at birmingham at the wsi level has done well in terms of building momentum in the championship and to go into beat aws l top five team, i think at the minute is a pretty good result for them. �* ., ., ., , ., , minute is a pretty good result for them. ., ., ., , ., , ., them. and what a “ourney cardiff had been on as we — them. and what a journey cardiff had been on as we have _ them. and what a journey cardiff had been on as we have heard _ them. and what a journey cardiff had been on as we have heard in - them. and what a journey cardiff had been on as we have heard in that - been on as we have heard in that report. it will be down to you in just a moment to get them a plum type. neo migrates, 0k. just a moment to get them a plum type. neo migrates, ok. but terrific that t

yeah, that's why i love birmingham and if anyone gets a chance to tour, yes, birmingham will. so you all know the birmingham is beloved in my heart and it has one of the most amazing rights legacies. but many people will walk that national monument and not realize that the masonic temple was by architect robert taylor. they won't realize. that 16th street baptist church in, the parsonage building, was designed by wallace rayfield. they don't realize that the birmingham civil rights institute was, designed by six second generation black architect. its name is slipping my mind now. but the fact that there are three black architects to design historic that's part of this national monument. i mean, we're passing architecturally significant every single day. and they seem these buildings to stand without that kind of significance and meaning. and that's why documentation, research and scholarship and having organizations like triple j, m and a scholar helping us to mine and discover the multiple layers of history imbued in these historic places is critical to understanding the full

now birmingham is 75% black, ok? and the fourth thing they should do is they should have a --, it should be mandatory and all of the public high schools should start from grade one up through grade 12 so people will know the laws and regulations in terms of how they should conduct themselves when the police stopped them. they do not do that here in the city of birmingham, and we have a high crime area here, and the last thing is i like the way they handle the situation in memphis. they caught them, they expelled them of the job, they fired them. normally, when that rodney king thing came through or any other black person that was arrested they always give them a desk job. so i hope by them doing the rapid firing of those five policeman, i hope that will be a thing that they do across the board. once you are convicted you are fired right there. you do not get no desk job. host: let's go to paul next in tennessee. good morning, paul. caller: good morning. how are you this morning? host: i am ok. went do you think? call

. -- the birmingham hotel. . ' hotel.million... the difference l hotel. that was almost £1 i million... the difference was that he won _ million... the difference was that he won millions. - that he won millions. difference from? from what we thought we should have paid to what we paid. 0n the question is, why is that? do what we paid. on the question is, why is that?— is, why is that? do you feel there was _ is, why is that? do you feel there was corruption? - is, why is that? do you feel there was corruption? i - is, why is that? do you feel. there was corruption? i don't know, there was corruption? i don't know. we — there was corruption? i don't know. we paid _ there was corruption? i don't know, we paid more - there was corruption? i don't know, we paid more than - there was corruption? i don'tj know, we paid more than £31 million over, it came out in the invoices, we either got fleeced by every contractor going or there was another reason for it. i don't know what the reason is and that is why the police have it and

we are back in birmingham . i'm going to head birmingham.le's panel just here to find out what they made of all of that. so i will start with you, sylvia. what did you make of that interview with john barker? with him when barker? i disagree with him when he said as a speaker he was impartial and fair. what i do with when he said he was a bit of a showman , agree with that. of a showman, agree with that. and like most politics, he was full of bluster. and like most politics, he was full of bluster . thank you very full of bluster. thank you very much, sylvia. tony did you agree with anything you had to say? absolutely no. well, i don't know what azza said. be honest, because i think it's a typical it's the problem of westminster politics politicians. they're opportunists. what opportunists. i don't know what any stand for. and i, i any of them stand for. and i, i mean, mentioned fact the mean, mentioned the fact the conservatives right . conservatives are hard right. but royal mail. liberals but not the royal mail. liberals were cut from the

, belfast, belfast birmingham, belfast, belfast city , birmingham, belfast, belfast city, it birminghamt for anybody looking for alternative flights. i mean, do you think there is an appetite in the industry? we heard from simon calder earlier on saying, look, the rest of the aviation industry is doing pretty well at the moment. think there the moment. do you think there will appetite to buy this will be an appetite to buy this up will be an appetite to buy this ”p by will be an appetite to buy this up by these buy these routes in these smaller planes up? so at least these these domestic smaller domestic flights can continue . i think smaller domestic flights can continue. i think in smaller domestic flights can continue . i think in reality , it continue. i think in reality, it say, you know, it's a bit like having a bit of a utopia. it will be a great, great for domestic markets . it's great for domestic markets. it's great for regional communities, jobs , etc. regional communities, jobs, etc. the reality the scale needed to operate some of these airlines we've seen in the past with y

scott lucas from the university of birmingham in the u. k. thank you so much for your time. thank you. the kremlin has revised upwards the death toll from a ukrainian air strike on a russian military barracks from 63 up to 89. keith says the real figure is in fact, in the hundreds and the thought to be the deadliest single attack by ukraine against a russian target. and it has fuel domestic criticism against russia's army commanders . moscow says the unauthorized use of mobile phones by its soldiers allowed ukraine to pinpoint their location. russian crowns gather in somber ceremony in the city of samara to mourn soldiers killed in ukraine. people who lived here or among those who died in a new year's eve bombing in the cave care so that we get there to honor the memory of all dead soldiers of the special military operation. we get there because it's hard for everyone with when it's hot, we should be together, which mr. huge piles of rubble of all that remains from the bombing. now, russian nationalists and some lawmakers, a demanding punishment for commanders, they say igno

alex forsyth, bbc news, birmingham. starmer, has set out his vision for government, promising to devolve more power out of westminster. he says he'll introduce a so—called take back control bill in favour of communities across the country. sir keir also says if labour wins the next election he'll oversee a decade of national renewal. the government dismissed labour's plans as "vacuous". here's our political editor, chris mason. so, this is how you would have done it. politicians who hope to embody the future find it tempting to have a go with the technology of tomorrow. keir starmer and the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, were at a high—tech engineering site in east london today. robots, gizmos, gadgets... keir starmer. ..and a labour leader who backed remain and wanted a second eu referendum, now claiming a leave campaign catchphrase as his own. we will embrace the "take back control" message, but we'll turn it from a slogan into a solution, from a catchphrase into change. we will spread control out of westminster, d

she wrote a poem called four women, which was later made into a song as a tribute to the birmingham girl who had been killed her four women in the song were purposefully stereotypes. she noted in order to underline how white america made black women invisible. she hoped to spur. her black sisters who control their own destinies until they had the confidence. she said to define themselves, they'd be stuck in the same mess forever, and i wondered if any of the students wanted to say anything about either of the songs because you also have the four women song in front of you or did have you could pass around. yeah, julia. slow narrative kind of brings me back to the beginning of the semester when we were talking about booker t, washington and how his suggestion of gaining more traction for civil rights was to go slow like he kind of said like except the smaller victories and have it contribute to a bigger picture. so it's interesting how there's so many contradicting views within the same subject and i think it's really interesting to kind of pick apart how different people saw the means to

bbc news today, birmingham.re —based charity is running a camera club for people with visual impairments and their work has just with visual impairments and their work hasjust gone with visual impairments and their work has just gone work too on display as reported here. these vivid images around the world and some more familiar locations depict scenes with a clarity that photographers themselves cannot see with the naked eye. they are all members of a camera club for people with visual impairments. now an exhibition of their work has opened in fareham library.— in fareham library. there are a lot of --eole in fareham library. there are a lot of people who _ in fareham library. there are a lot of people who are _ in fareham library. there are a lot of people who are visually - in fareham library. there are a lot| of people who are visually impaired and like taking photos, but some of them are wary about not being able to focus properly. i set the club up, but funding through the national lottery and we purchased

the 23—year—old was stabbed on a dance floor at a nightclub here in birmingham, the crane in digbeth, club has subsequently had its licence temporarily suspended, with police describing in that application scenes of chaos. both men today were also charged with the lesser offence of affray, both pled not guilty to that, and they will be seen again at crown court here on wednesday. 23—year—old cody fisher was anon—league football player was a non—league football player and a school sports coach as well. this afternoon there was due to be a football match between two of the sides he's been very involved with, stratford town, his current side, and bromsgrove sporting. but that match has been called off. we know that stratford town have tweeted saying that it's in recognition of the significant emotions that are in play at the club at the moment. bromsgrove sporting also said that that request had gone in to postpone that match because some of the players from stratford were out with cody that night and they will need time and support to come to terms with this. some things are bigger than

dci's tony birmingham was lead agent. fellow agent chris thomas to interview seth. >> there was no doubt in my mind that chris was the person that needed to do that interview. >> we only get one shot at it. and we have to be prepared that this could just be information collecting or we have to be prepared that this could be our suspect. >> so, only eight hours after his pregnant wife was murdered, seth's formal interview with dci agent thomas got under way. >> you can just call me chris, i guess. you're free to go out of here at anytime. >> in the interview room, agent thomas was in the white shirt, back to the camera. to put seth more at ease, a deputy familiar to him sat in. it started out routinely. >> you have a job? >> currently, i work at job corps as security, but i'm actually next month coming to work here in the jail. >> seth had already given his account twice to deputies at the scene, but this would be his first time on videotape. his story begins somewhere around 5:00 a. m. >> exactly. >> i turned the shower o

so you all know birmingham is a beloved in my heart. it has one of the most amazing civil rights legacies. but, many people walk that national monument and not realize a masonic symbol was designed by architect robert taylor. they won't realize 16th street baptist church in the parsonage building was designed by wallace rayfield.li they don't realize the birmingham civil rights institute was designed by second-generation black architects. the name is slipping my mind right now. but, the fact there are three black architects that design historic buildings as part of the national monument, we are passing these architecturally significant places every single day. they have seen these buildings seem to stand without that kind of significance and meaning. that is why documentation, research and scholarship and ikhaving organizations like aaam helping us to mine and discover the multiple layers of history viewed in these historic places is critical to understand the full history of the black experience. cooks one of things i enjoy about your

the 23—year—old was stabbed to death at a nightclub in birmingham.tballer who played for bromsgrove sporting, stourbridge, and stratford town football clu bs. just before midnight on boxing day, police say he was stabbed to death on the dance floor of the crane nightclub in the digbeth district of birmingham. 21—year—old kami carpenter and 22—year—old remy gordon have been charged with his murder and will appear at birmingham magistrates�* court today. in a statement, west midlands police said... "this is a significant development in our investigation as we seek to getjustice for cody, his family and friends. however, we are still really keen to hear from anyone with information who was not already spoken to us." since cody's death, the crane has had its licence suspended for 28 days. it followed accusations by west midlands police of serious management failings at the club on the night he died. the crane says it is conducting a full and detailed review of its security procedures and says it is assisting fully with the police inquiry. in a statement

yorkshire and birmingham latest. yorkshire and birmingham birmingham . oh sorry.xed . a picture of harry transfixed. a picture of harry popping up transfixed. a picture of harry popping up on my screen. the duke of sussex will face american broadcaster anderson cooper. american broadcaster anderson cooper . an interview on 60 cooper. an interview on 60 minutes on sunday. the trailer released on social media. here's the duke of sussex and said he wants his father and brother back. wants his father and brother back . we've been joined by our back. we've been joined by our row reporter and a former royal butler interested one and i'll be joined once again by my brilliant panel, author jonah williams and director of the new culture forum, peter whittle would be getting stuck into all the biggest stories of the day in today's papers and some them the biggest stories of the day in tquite; papers and some them the biggest stories of the day in tquite funpers and some them the biggest stories of the day in tquite fun ass and some them the biggest stories of the day in tqu

alex forsyth, bbc news, birmingham. leader as he promised communities that his party would devolve more power out of westminster and put it into local hands. sir keir starmer said his party would deliver properly on the brexit campaign message from 2016, saying he would turn it from a "slogan to a solution". 0ur political editor chris mason has the details. so this is how you would have done it. politicians who hope to embody the future find it tempting to have a go with the technology of tomorrow. keir starmer and the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, were at a high—tech engineering site in east london today. robots, gizmos, gadgets. keir starmer... and a labour leader who backed remain and wanted a second eu referendum, now claiming a leave campaign catchphrase as his own. we will embrace the "take back control" message, but we'll turn it from a slogan into a solution, from a catchphrase into change. we will spread control out of westminster, devolve new powers over employment support, transport, energy, climate chang

the 23—year—old was stabbed to death at a nightclub in birmingham on boxing day.held in memory of cody at the start of the birmingham city and hull city match on friday. and his football club, stratford town, say they will be arranging a memorial game to raise money for his family. zoe conway, bbc news. russia has fired another wave of missile and drone attacks on ukraine overnight. the targets included the capital city of kyiv. our correspondent hugo bachega is there. these attacks have been happening for several days now, haven't they? yes. good morning. it was the second night _ yes. good morning. it was the second night in _ yes. good morning. it was the second night in a _ yes. good morning. it was the second night in a row— yes. good morning. it was the second night in a row that have the city came _ night in a row that have the city came under attack. the air raid alert— came under attack. the air raid alert sounded shortly before midnight. this morning the army had said that _ midnight. this morning the army had said that all — midnight. this morning the a

overthe and communities like this one in birmingham.ment's political opponents believe that is already having an impact. believe that is already having an im act. , . ., impact. very well evidenced that issues like _ impact. very well evidenced that issues like domestic _ impact. very well evidenced that issues like domestic abuse, - impact. very well evidenced that i issues like domestic abuse, mental ill—health, and poverty in the home can result in issues with child development and risk falling into crime therefore a loss of these children centres that support people with those problems has increased at risk. in with those problems has increased at risk. :: ' ., ., risk. in 2021 a review of the earlier support _ risk. in 2021 a review of the earlier support included - risk. in 2021 a review of the l earlier support included there risk. in 2021 a review of the - earlier support included there could be no greater contribution to levelling up. the government promised 300 million, over three years, for a network of new family hubs, to he

i remember in birmingham, alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out ofaptist church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. and bull connor would tell them to send the dogs forth. and they did come. but we just went before the dogs singing, "ain't gonna let nobody turn me around." bull connor next would say, "turn the fire hoses on." and as i said to you the other night, bull connor didn't know history. he knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. and that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. and we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. if we were baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. if we were methodist and some others, we had been sprinkled. but we knew water. that couldn't stop us. and we just went on before the dogs, and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses, and we would look at it. and we'd just go on singing, "over my head i see freedom in the air." and then we would be thrown in the paddy wago

our reporters, the latest from london and birmingham , new year. but same birmingham, new year. but same old news. the first of 248 hour walkouts across the country this week. we'll have the latest from london . and i'll be in london. and i'll be in birmingham as disruption continue as the rmt walk up for another 40 hours . and we'll also another 40 hours. and we'll also be speaking to the transport secretary, mark hall. but just before 7 am. this morning, as though it's better to keep us somehow as the villains they've shown. absolutely willingness to reconcile prince harry said he'd like his father and brother in a trailer for a new interview airing this sunday. the revelations come as the duke of sussex prepares to release his memoir, spare this time next week , and the british medical week, and the british medical association has warned that pressure on the nhs is intolerable and unsustainable . intolerable and unsustainable. ministers are being urged take immediate action after a of hospital trusts across the country declare . critical country declare. critical incidents an

the high speed rail services was orginally intended to connect london, birmingham, manchester and leedseeds station is the chief executive of the northern powerhouse partnership, henri murison. good morning to you. you are outstanding sum for what there was a promise, a plan to deliver connectivity to leeds, allowing it to connect with other parts of the uk at a faster rate for passengers. that plan as i mentioned has been scrapped but what do you make of this report that the hst rail line not terminating in central london? if i was the chancellor i'd be very disappointed that someone has decided to brave the site on what should be a morning we were talking about growth because hs2 is critical to national productivity and growth, critical to productivity in the north of england under bowen in leeds we are waiting to find out how trains will get here, there is a commitment in the government integrated real plan to get hs2 trains to leeds even at the full line doesn't come here so whether you are in leeds or manchester, it's been promised a new line all the way to manchester, this report

and, then from birmingham onwards to london , they're onwards to london, they're hoping birmingham to completed by 2033. leg will be completed by 2033. now sun this morning that now the sun this morning that because of inflation, ian, of course they're going to need more money to meet the costs, words the sums add up and that because of that maybe they'll end up terminating the route . end up terminating the route. old oak common that's a new that's being built out towards west of london, about five miles west of london, about five miles west of london, about five miles west of here. and they'll instead not run the all the way to houston, which would be huge because the amounts of disruption that's being caused to this area is enormous . been to this area is enormous. been speaking the people just speaking to the people just to my they've talked my left here and they've talked about amount noise about the amount of noise that you the disruption it's you get the disruption it's caused have had to caused that people have had to move etc. me there used to move away, etc. me there used to

kami carpenter and remy gordon, both from birmingham, will appear in court on monday.th have been released on bail. a man has died and another has been injured following an avalanche on the north face of ben nevis. the lochaber mountain rescue team and a helicopter were dispatched to help the two climbers yesterday afternoon. a 48—year—old man was pronounced dead at the scene and a ao—year—old was taken to hospital for treatment. this is bbc news, the headlines: new year is being celebrated around the world — this is london where crowds returned for the first time since the covid pandemic. scotland has also been celebrating the new year — or hogmanay, as its known there — with its own spectacular fireworks display. as with london, it's the first time in three years that the event has not been limited by covid pandemic restrictions. the event was held in edinburgh, with the fireworks launched from around the castle which stands in the centre of the city. our correspondent alexandra mackenzie was in edinburgh for the festivities. she sent us this update. edinburgh welcom

scott lucas from the university of birmingham in the u. k. thank you so much for your time. thank you. ok, let's take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. hope francis has used his weekly audience to protect praise his predecessor benedict as a great communicator of the roman catholic faith. frances is due to preside over the form up hope vented its funeral mass at the vatican on thursday. thousands of mourners continued to pay their final respects ahead of the service men, maurice marking 75 years of independence from britain with the military parade and mass pardons. of more than $7000.00 prisoners, it's not clear whether this will include people jailed as part of a crackdown on descent. the country's military leader also outlined clowns for elections this year. ex crypto boss, sand bank, and fried, has pleaded not guilty to u. s. criminal fraud charges. the 3rd year old former digital currency billionaire is accused of choosing investors and looting customer deposits on his crypto currency trading platform. f t x. the kremlin has revise

with the famous letter from the birmingham jail. and that causes coming down and then to do anything except to protect the civil rights marches. and then to go down south to alabama meeting with george wallace and meeting with resistance and people are hurling epithets and the attorney general of the united states and poignant episode comes meeting with james baldwin and african-american entertainers bobby kennedy's father's penthouse. and it is a very uncomfortable situation where bobby kennedy with the racism that they have not addressed they are unrelenting in their criticism of him. and it has a searing impression on him and goes back to the white house and at first he criticizes those talks about how horrible he is and he is gay, but then he says he has a market impression on his brother as well finally he decides when the governor of alabama knows this well so to african-americans cannot matriculate and says i will not let him we'll talk about the civil rights and he encourages him to do that the civil rights to a moral issue

now, 40 years after its original creation in birmingham, spitting image is coming back home.er assembled on a uk stage, the biggest names in royalty, showbiz and politics. but of course, we all know who's really in charge. and now the weather forecast with greta thunberg. hot! that was the weather with greta thunberg. # hell—bent on saving the uk. #. rather than a sketch show, the stage version of spitting image is a superhero story where tom cruise is tasked by king charles with saving great britain. i've been thrilled by tom cruise films and appalled in equal measure, but i've never been moved by one, and i actually going to tom cruise is going to achieve something live on stage here in birmingham maybe he's never done before. i'm almost in tears by a fake version of a mini tom cruise, a mini mini version ofa mini man. what is the matter with me? hello, i'm ian mckellen. thank you. and, as always with spitting image, no—one is safe. yeah, it gives you conflicting priorities. like, as a citizen, you might not like the way the country is being run, but as people who've put on

this was their first try at birmingham city.rlogged pitch this time, the team bottom of league one did this. oh, it's an absolute peach of a strike. but a cotswold curler brought a fight back from the city boys. birmingham scored twice and stopped the knights best chance of an upset. the championship side played blackburn next. the team with third round regret are chesterfield, who went to championship west brom and got swept away. the non—league side were seconds from a win in the first game, but their moment had gone. a 4—0 win for the baggies in the replay and for chesterfield, a cold and cruel night in the cup. joe lenski, bbc news. the british billionaire sirjim ratcliffe�*s firm ineos say they've formally put themselves into the process of buying manchester united. united's current owners, the glazerfamily said in november that they were considering selling the club as they explore strategic alternatives. ratcliffe made an unsuccessful offer to buy chelsea last year after roman abramovich put the club up for sale. but his

in the inquiries i did in the birmingham hoteland inquiries i did in the birmingham hotel and outsourced they're looking into it. the difference is 31 million and _ looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we _ looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we paid _ looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we paid it - looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we paid it to - looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we paid it to do i looking into it. the difference is 31 million and we paid it to do itj 31 million and we paid it to do it but 31 million we thought we should pay will be actually paid and the question is, why is that. do pay will be actually paid and the question is, why is that.- question is, why is that. do you feel there _ question is, why is that. do you feel there was _ question is, why is that. do you feel there was corruption? - question is, why is that. do you feel there was corruption? but | question is, why is that. do you| feel there was corruption? but i question is, why is that. do you i feel there was corruption? but i

why don't birmingham don't they just make birmingham better? suggestion better?suggestion then. obsessed then. wouldn't be so obsessed with london. so if with getting into london. so if you improve infrastructure, you can improve infrastructure, want to go to north of want to go to the north of england? know places england? you know the places that it. this not that really need it. this not the infrastructure. the brexit of infrastructure. it's mess by the it's an absolute mess by the sounds what's going on. but the thing with this is a lot of people questioned needed people questioned if we needed it, was big enough it it, if england was big enough it to that's now and to not. i mean, that's now and now they're not even it now they're not even pushing it to its extremities on it. it seems it's a waste of time. seems like it's a waste of time. i did 11 years of going around the doing stand comedy the country doing stand comedy gigs and birmingham london gigs and birmingham to london was best route. was on the best route. everywhere people everywhere else. these p

she said well, we're having the birmingham -- we're having the bar association annual meeting in birmingham that year, and she said when you come up there, i'm going to introduce you to some people. she introduced me to some people. they talked with me about the possibility of running. i told them that one, i wasn't going to just get out there, but i would listen to what they say, and the only way i'll do it is i will have to run uncontested, because if one of these white lawyers decides to run against me and talk about my civil rights background, they're going to win, and i'm going to lose, and i don't need that. she did it. i did what they recommended. i was elected to be the first african american president of the alabama state bar, and when you get a letter from the alabama state bar association now, it will say lawyers under service, that's the motto for it, but that was the motto i used when i was president elect in order to get lawyers to realize that we render service, and the bar association sometime later ended up adopting it. we were able to get more diversity on our bar commissi

why don't birmingham don't they just make birmingham better? suggestion better?suggestion then. obsessed then. wouldn't be so obsessed with london. so if with getting into london. so if you improve infrastructure, you can improve infrastructure, want to go to north of want to go to the north of england? know places england? you know the places that it. this not that really need it. this not the infrastructure. the brexit of infrastructure. it's mess by the it's an absolute mess by the sounds what's going on. but the thing with this is a lot of people questioned needed people questioned if we needed it, was big enough it it, if england was big enough it to that's now and to not. i mean, that's now and now they're not even it now they're not even pushing it to its extremities on it. it seems it's a waste of time. seems like it's a waste of time. i did 11 years of going around the doing stand comedy the country doing stand comedy gigs and birmingham london gigs and birmingham to london was best route. was on the best route. everywhere people everywhere else. these p

this is the crane nightclub in the digbeth district of birmingham. police officers who attended the scene describe a scene of chaos police officers who attended the scene described a scene of chaos and evidence of drug use within the club. the crane says it is conducting a full and detailed review of its security procedures and says it is assisting fully with the police enquiry. a minute's silent in memory of cody at the start of the birmingham city and hull city match on friday. all the players, officials and staff members wore black armbands as a mark of respect. zoe conway, bbc news. the third person arrested over the christmas eve shooting on merseyside has been released on bail. 26—year—old elle edwards was shot outside the lighthouse pub in wallasey. a 31—year—old man from tranmere, had been held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but has now been released. two other people have also been held over her death but no—one has been charged. 0vernight, russia has launched dozens of new air strikes on ukraine's capital kyiv. it came shortly after p

one or two places, actually in birmingham, bournville, a conservation area, it has exceptionally good the hood so at the light is going straight down to the ground which is really important. at best, if you go to the countryside or the or the desert they do mr stiles you can ever see is what is called magnitude six and the bigger the number they demoed the star. if you come into a city like birmingham, london you will be lucky to see a star of a magnitude two because the solution so poor. how do we get around this? what solutions do you think are around that actually help reduce low pollution and are they feasible? 0f they feasible? of course, always happen, baffled the lighting, gated aimed at the ground, stop the light scattering where it is bouncing off buildings and scattering where you don't need to be. switch off lights that are necessary. we have situations where we probably — one in three rides 0ak situations where we probably — one in three rides oak valley is probably all you need instead of the huge amounts of lighting ——on a highway. it is a waste of time. better quality,

, birmingham, manchester and leeds london, birmingham, manchesterand leeds but the link to leeds hastnership said that removing the landings station would make the project less valuable for people across the country. hs2 is critical to national productivity growth. it's particularly critical to growing productivity in the north of england and although in leeds we're waiting to find out how trains will get here, there is a commitment in the government's integrated rail plan to get hs2 trains to leeds even if the full line doesn't come here, so whether you're in leeds or manchester, that's been promised a new line all the way to manchester, this report doesn't add up because the issue is that there's not enough platforms at old oak common, only six platforms, far fewer than will be available at euston. so if you do not have euston station, there is no way to get the same number of trains, which means birmingham probably will get a service on hs2, but manchester and those trains running on to leeds, we can forget about those, so it's just not good enough. whoever�*s thought this up, it'

, new street and birmingham, new street and birmingham, new street and birmingham, new to wolverhamptonget two trains per hour on the north hampton to london euston route, but apart that a lot of the other longer distance journeys the run by the operating companies like avanti west coast like crosscountry as they they actually stop selling tickets for the trains because of the disruption that was expected and said to people to only travel if absolutely necessary so you can get an idea of as millions of people head back to work after christmas. now for the first time, they are going to be experiencing severe experiencing some severe disruption try to get disruption if they try to get anywhere rail in terms of anywhere by rail in terms of what the if had that affect what the if that had that affect that on other public that it's had on other public transport the city. transport around the city. speaking to one person earlier, they to get the tram this they had to get the tram this morning. it took them 40 extra minutes to get into and they said trams were absolutely said the trams were ab

late last year, we reported that of 26 doctors referred to the gmc by the university hospitals birminghamrrals to the gmc about whistle—blowing. the unison trade union says it was contacted by dozens of uhb staff, most of them medics and not unison members. initially, we just thought it wasjust, like, one or two, and then it got quite worrying, the number of people and the sorts of things that they were saying. so numerous and serious were the concerns the union was hearing that they put together a confidential report, which they sent to the care quality commission. it was really clear that people were being discouraged from reporting incidents, because the trust management wanted to say they ran an exemplary hospital and they didn�*t have any problems. then when you started digging in further, you could see that, you know, the use of disciplinary procedures against senior medics to try and stop them from being whistle—blowers. the cqc say they considered the unison report when they conducted their most recent assessment of uhb, which ranked the trust as "requires improvement". uhb told u

oh ah, the ministers stayed in birmingham with duncan as the speech of the islands of the shingles archipelago had been british territories. and satan 14, when they were seated to britain by france in 1966 the u. k. agreed with united states to make the british indian ocean tendered free available for the defense purposes of the u. s. and the u. k. and the to gulshan people were removed from the islands. we must, however, now look forward not back on decisions about the future of the british indian ocean territory. the government has now considered all the available information and has decided against the resettlement of which gulshan people on the grounds of feasibility, defense and security interests, and the cost to the british taxpayer. the costs of being estimated to, to vary from anything between 55000000 for a me a 50 people going back to anything like 256000000 pounds for one and a half 1000. it would then also triggered the obligation of a majesty's government to pay on an annual basis, the costs of sustaining the population. and in fact, when there is no hospital available, no, no ca

i went to a college called birmingham southern. i can remember it suddenly occurred to me walking across the campus, maybe everything my father had been telling me about race and religion, maybe all of this is to be questioned. as soon as i could get away from home, i would be out there experiencing all kinds of wonderful, new things. anybody strange, ybody diffent, anybody who was not white southern presbyterian, let me have them. my mother had three brothers, all of whom had moved to latin america and so periodically she would receive letters with strange exotic foreign stamps and so i was used to the idea that outside of presbyterianism there existed a big wide wonderful world. ♪ hearts are gay in costa rica ♪ there's music night and day in costa rica ♪ an aunt and uncle invited me to come down and spend a summer. he had been a banker. ♪ all the cares you know and when it was time to retire, he deced that the best place would be costa rica. ♪ if you're looking for a thing we call amore ♪ ♪ you'll find it here si si senor. ♪ ♪ in

the classics civil rights movement, the youth played an incredible, important role, especially birmingham spring of 1963, which i consider the gettysburg of the civil rights movement. it's when james bevel says, you know, dr. king, your approach isn't working here. i'm going to put the kids in the streets. high school students and elementary students to the point at which birmingham detectives are interrogating an eight year old girl about communist influences. and she says, i know anything about communism, but they told me a lot about nonviolence. that's the elders play a very important role in this. what you see, again and again is elders in the background. i mentioned amc more. amc and medgar evers. were the two people you went to in mississippi in 61, 62, 63. if you were a young civil activist and you wanted to. literally people said would not be alive. dave dennis so recently i would not be alive. it were not for medgar evers. he told us how to live, how to survive another septima clark fired from her job, a schoolteacher in south carolina for belonging to the naacp. she spends a wee

university of alabama and 63 d then there's the civil rights movement direct action campaign in birmingham. during the course of that campaign when martin luther king is taken to jail and writes the famous letter from a birmingham jail, the weight of the civil rights cause is coming down onct kennedy and it looks like he's riot act. he's very reluctant to act come to do anything except to protect civil rights marchers. i've always wondered what he did at that moment. it turns out that bobby kennedy who was his brothers chief aide, most trusted and close advisor, goes downn south alabama and meets with the george wallace and meets with just horrific resistance down there. people are hurling epithets at him and treating him for cet like easy attorney general ofut the united states, but interesting enough a more poignant episode for bobby kennedy comes when heom meets wh james baldwin, a novelist, and a group of african-american entertainers anarchists at bobby kennedy's fathers penthouse in manhattan. and it is a very uncomfortable situation where they are confronting bobby kennedy with the

she said we were having the bar association in birmingham that year when you, i'm going to introduce you to some people. she asked me to people talk about the possibility of running. i told her that one, i wasn't going to just get there, but to what they said and the only way i'll do it is i'll have to run uncontested because one of these white lawyers decides to run against me and talk about my civil rights background, they're going to win and i'm going to loseand i don't need that . i did with a recommended. i was elected to be the first african american president of the alabama state bar. when you get a letter from the alabama state bar association now will say lawyers under service, that's the motto for it but that was the motto i use when i was president elect in order to get lawyers to realize we rendered service from the bar association. we were able to get more diversity on our commissioners and we were also while i was president we started that alabama lawyers hall of fame, one of three major things i was the president of the state bar association next week, president of the

and the civil rights direct action campaign in birmingham. and during the course of that campaign when martin luther king is taken to jail and writes the famous letter from the birmingham jail, the weight of the civil rights cause is coming down on kennedy in this presidency and looks like he's going to have to act. he's very reluctant to act, to do anything except to protect civil rights marchers and i've always wondered why he did it at that moment. it turns out that bobby kennedy who was his brother's chief aide, most trusted and close advisor, goes down south to alabama and meets with george wallace and meets with just horrific resistance down there. you know, people are hurling epithets at him and treating him certainly not like he's the attorney general of the united states. but interestingly enough, a more poignant episode for bobby kennedy comes when he meets with edwin, the novelist and entertainers at bobby kennedy's father's penthouse in manhattan and it is a very uncomfortable situation where they're confronting bobby kennedy with