Birmingham Post - 2019-08-15

• New services pledged for West Coast Main Line
• Kashmiris hold city protests over India
• Should we build statue for ‘appeaser’ Chamberlai­n?
• £60k legal bill for councillor who took on his accuser
• City takes over £1.3m in bus lane penalties
• New parking charges to hit train station users
• MP condemns call to ban drivers from using hands-free phones
• Hopes for happy landing in airfield closure wrangle
• Police chief in dark over new officers despite PM’s pledge
• Tough new parking rules coming for village roads
• 300 homes planned for old Rolls-Royce site
• Sandwell picks up £45k tab for public funerals
• Campaigner­s incensed as developers jump the gun
• Huge park sculpture revealed by Bangladesh­is
• Watson under fire from Corbynites for unity call
• £3.5m plan for anti-violence unit after 48hrs of bloodshed
• Youth offending team loses millions
• Man in court charged with attempted murder of West Midlands policeman
• Burglar posed as own twin
• Roundabout­s to go in HS2 station plans
• £1.5bn tender for rail line met with poor response due to risks
• Water companies ‘must clean up act’
• Surfing a rising tide of rubbish
• Midland teams pay more than London sides to police games
• Call to find historic BSA machines that helped shape the world
• Lack of walking is major factor
• Chef heads for Wilderness as Nocturnal effort closes doors
• Obsessed stalker jailed after he enrolled on same course as ex
• Care home staff ‘failed’ ex-student who killed herself
• Football fan faces lifetime ban after making spectacle of himself
• West Midlands Tourism Awards launch
• Patients waited three hours in ambulance as A&Es struggled
• Author reveals new theory in one of our greatest murder mysteries
• Planners to back ‘huge boost for local area’
• Birmingham Airport gives Post Business Awards wings
• A new twist in an old story
• Ugly truths of Epstein’s life can’t be allowed die with him
• Here’s hoping they finally join the dots
• Back on track after too many years of neglect
• A place that defines the word ‘sacrifice’
• Gloria’s journey from paralysis to pop stardom
• Any kind of heartbreak or loneliness, I turn to Freya Ridings tells KERRI-ANN ROPER about how she hopes to inspire girls to ‘pick up instrument­s and write their own destinies’
• When I am singing Goldfinger, it’s like Shirley Bassey is on my shoulder
• We are like Bert and Ernie. We are always teasing each other
• MUSIC REVIEWS
• On your Primarks... get set...
• Go see what city has in store
• Girls... and boys
• In a CGI world, to have this dog with real emotion, has a power
• HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
• I like being funny, it’s the adult thing in my life
• IN THE TONIGHT... KATIE WRIGHT discovers why you should be wearing fragrance on your hair, not just your skin
• Could you be in it without knowing it?
• Hitting the high
• Well-equipped Nissan Leaf is charging ahead of the pack
• Witch guide to family fun
• LATE BREAKS
• Go Gaga over hotel’s present and mysterious past
• I felt so ill I feared I had cancer...it turned out I was
• Rising wages add more pressures for businesses
• Accountant­s merge staff in new HQ
• Are EOTs the way ahead for business in these testing times?
• Airport hotel sold in largest deal in region this year
• Don’t leave it too late to rethink your pension
• Signs still upbeat despite repossessi­ons rising 15%
• BOOK REVIEW
• This is not ‘find a footballer, bring him to Birmingham and hope he works well for Dean Smith’
• Villa expect big things from new arrival Jota
• Austin’s bostin’ but Burke is still not firing yet...
• European clubs keeping tabs on Kerim
• Pep knows score with his strikers
• ALBION NEWS Sun shines on Blues as record buy is tipped to be hot stuff

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