Birmingham Post - 2021-12-16

• Ambulance driver jailed for making up carjacking
• Marco PierreWhit­e restaurant in wage blunder
• Hotel ‘will turn Warwick Castle into Disneyland’
• OldVictori­an school on ‘endangered’ list
• Vaccine hesitancy could mean huge wave of Omicron cases
• It’s like lockdown all
• Chamber demands financial support for worst-affected sector
• Ambulance worker: ‘It has never been this bad’
• ‘Businesses like ours are going to die and your society is going to change’
• Social workers ‘spat at’ afterArthu­r murder case
• 900 attacks on NHS staff battling Covid pandemic
• £93m Expressway repair works to take five years
• Racist tirade drunk jailed after attack on doorman
• Leisure staff strike over council ‘fire and rehire’ tactics
• Do you need
• Concert bag farce sees half-mile NEC queue – and fans in tears
• Aston Martin staff in strike threat over pension
• City preparing to take in 400 Afghan refugees
• Felling of M5 trees ‘ruins’ lives of locals
• Tory leader urged to go over social media posts
• Print works to be constructi­on skills training hub
• Good Beer Guide accolade proves tiny pub is the real deal
• £2bn HS2 trains deal for Hitachi Rail and Alstom
• Historic toffee factory to be turned in new homes
• Hospitals in £2m payout for injuries and medical blunders
• National Express to take over Stagecoach
• World first as 16th century globe goes under the hammer
• Belfry to host spectator tournament for first time in 14 years
• Christmas lights fantastic for dark Archers village
• Policeman fired for sick videos ‘has council job’
• MP Fabricant reveals ‘life partner’ is mayor Street
• Half of stalls at German market fail hygiene test
• Grief over loss of ‘brightest star’ councillor
• Trouble brewing as pumps run dry
• By-election farce could see Labour denied seat
• Severn Trent fined over discharge of sewage
• Iconic pub to keep on rocking after tough year
• Here’s to celebratin­g
• Rare newts on the line prompt railway rescue
• Maximum crowd is still aim for event – city leader
• Race row over 2022 Games representa­tion
• Serial blackmaile­r jailed for 32 years
• Boss of crashed firm owing £17m admits trading fraudulent­ly
• THE BUSINESSMA­N
• Ethnic minority MPs and early roots in Parliament
• Reward those who care for us in old age
• Americans reap whirlwind as many turn blind eye to climate
• SOUND JUDGEMENT
• We’re niche now, and it feels good
• CHRISTMAS SPICED SHORTBREAD
• RAISE A GLASS
• JAM-FILLED LEBKUCHEN HEARTS
• CHOCOLATE AND GINGER BISCOTTI
• THE BIRMINGHAM AND BLACK COUNTRY PUBS NEW TO THE GOOD BEER GUIDE
• All hail the ale
• The first horror film I saw as a kid was Dracula
• We’re like a ticking time bomb
• What a tangled web you weave...
• I like Christmas a lot, it’s the rest of the year I find problemati­c
• I always try to enjoy each day
• Join the ivy league
• All hail Halo – the boss is back
• It’s a gift at under £100
• HOTEL OF THE WEEK
• A Christmas cracker of a music TV show
• General Knowledge Quiz
• Growth slowing as costs rise and Omicron looms
• New partner at head of Midlands law firm
• Historic ‘Rum Runner’ site turned into offices
• IT firm moves to new base after 30 years in business
• You can’t take it with you – but you can give it away
• Call to halt accelerati­ng bank branch closures
• Estate agents see plunge in properties on books
• Home boasts a medieval hall that once welcomed Charles I
• Old chapel could make a heavenly family home
• Val deserves praise for improvisat­ion
• Fran was handed a new deal 5 months into stay
• Blues star makes heartfelt McGree transfer plea
• BOOKS OF THE YEAR
• Jacob aims to follow in boss’s footsteps after goal
• Stevie reveals his ambitious plans forVilla

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