Birmingham Post - 2017-12-28

• Butcher surgeon probe ‘may have missed patients’
• Plaque call for UK’s first black head teacher
• 300 council staff off on full pay after suspension One worker got only a formal warning for sexual harassment
• Next phase of Paradise redevelopm­ent revealed
• Go-ahead for 42-storey tower block
• £5m hospital parking fees are a ‘tax on the sick’
• ‘Locals need to benefit from legacy of Games’ Many still need convincing over 2022 Commonweal­th event
• London to host cycling as no time to build velodrome
• Police commission­er blames cuts for hike in council tax charge Maximum £12 a year to be added to bills
• Cyber-crime care unit to be launched
• Man jailed after pregnant wife alerts move to join terror group
• ISIS hacker still claiming victims years after death Birmingham terrorist has left trail of horror two years after he was killed
• Air crash victim feared he would burn to death
• Dogs home boss jailed for stealing £900,000 Charity chief with gambling habit and wife admit fraud
• TheVC hero turned down because of a ‘weak heart’ Fearless act of doomed sailor remembered by town to this day
• Town never forgot its Great War hero
• Road ahead for the Midlands Hundreds of millions of pounds of infrastruc­ture projects due in the region
• How the campaigner tried to ban pop’s filthiest acts from our screens
• Mysterious donor gives £4 million to homeless charity
• ‘Hero of Brum’ who stopped a plot to blow up Parliament
• Take a bow, heroes of 2017...
• There’s more that unites us than divides
• Comment Picking up the pieces for a failure of government
• 2018... Plenty of challenges loom for business and politics
• Comment Commonweal­th Games? Don’t get too excited, we’re Brummies
• KPMG views region as crucial area for growth
• ‘Midlands Engine’ fires up with first investment­s
• Agency tunes in to radio expert
• HS2 and Metro boost for office letting market
• Handrail firm is bought by Colmore Tang
• Reasons to be wary when planning for old age
• NS&I’s new bonds prove signs looking up for savers
• Brum could buck trend as house price rises slow
• BOOK REVIEW
• Returning duo provide the rarest of highlights for Villa fans
• Pollock aims to seize his opportunit­y
• Nobody except Blues can fix their season
• Difference in fortunes Toff to explain...
• Together we’ll make it through, vows Dawson

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