Birmingham Post - 2021-07-01

• Locals first in line for 2022 Games
• Hall’s well that ends well
• Police ‘ignored’ witness who saw killer digging
• ‘Ghosted children’ lost by the education system
• Warning as absence from school soars
• Girl, 3, ‘died from ferocious assault’ by mother and partner
• Students pay the price for isolation despite term end
• Rise in burglars using weapons as workers stayed at home last year
• Next university vice-chancellor reveals ambition
• Plaque to explain slavery links when stature returns
• Slave gang kept Poles in squalor and beat them
• Shops and restaurant­s ‘could face food shortages’
• Drug driver jailed for killing cyclist aged 85
• Entreprene­urial student to turn exam success into good business
• Ex-magistrate in court over 50p parking dispute
• How to say ‘I do’ safely
• ‘It’s great to celebrate at last’
• GKN staff threaten strike over factory closure
• Tapeworm treatment could stop coronaviru­s
• Iconic Spitfire returns home after restoratio­n
• Locals: New homes plan ‘will destroy green belt’
• Parklet placed on truck after council tore it down
• Cricket pitch invasion came after drinks deal
• Strike threat after disabled workers were ‘sacked’
• Farmer fights for right to call his village ‘nasty and murderous’
• Machete gang target couple at restaurant
• ‘Low traffic zones’ can be axed, admits council
• Rare albino sparrow is all white with bird lover
• Officer who killed ex-Villa star jailed for 8 years
• MP condemns soft sentences for killers given 3 and 4 years
• First Afghan translator­s land at city’s airport
• Peaky pub set to reopen after £750,000 revamp
• Holiday lets will put wind in the sails of landmark
• Proposer asks for sand in marriage...
• JLR strikes 2% wage deal with workers
• Pledge to limit hostels in city’s trouble hotspots
• UK could lose 90,000 jobs if it loses race for ‘gigafactor­ies’
• Count moths and help save the world...
• Secrets of Royal Consent that you’ll never hear of
• Shame of Britney’s gilded cage in the ‘land of the free’
• A cross-cultural creative response to pandemic
• STAND-UP COMEDY IS FUNNY PHILOSOPHY
• IT’S ONLY FLOCK AND ROLL
• I’m living the life I always wanted thanks to Britain’s Got Talent
• I am not particular­ly bothered about what other people think of me
• FRENCH FANCY
• I wasn’t a monster when I was little – well, maybe my mum would have said different...
• After 20 years, I’m not sure where Dom ends and Vin begins
• RAISE A GLASS
• Caribbean flavour...
• GREEN BANANA AND SALTFISH
• SAFARI STYLE
• BEAUTY BUZZ
• Planting the seed
• This mature Merc is like a fine wine
• All the summer’s stunning new games
• Microsoft opens up Windows
• Well worth a Peak...
• SPICE was the variety of life
• Men are taught to mask vulnerabil­ity... what you see doesn’t tell the story of what’s going on inside
• Two Speed Crossword
• Region proves top spot for foreign investment
• USA plans for Midland maker of dialysis kit
• Covid recovery consultanc­y launched
• City deal to build £1.9bn Smithfield developmen­t
• Former office block to be turned into apartments
• Raw deal for millennial­s trying to get on ladder
• Why raiding your own pension early is dippy
• Everything plus the kitchen sink
• The neighbours keep themselves to themselves!
• Harper has high hopes of reunion after exit from Albion
• BOOK REVIEW
• Pereira bidding war must not be allowed to drag on
• Be afraid...Villa have ‘elite’ running scared
• New bid for Emile would spark fury, says Gabby
• Gardner needs time to grow into role at Blues
• Bowyer has to play his cards right on buys

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