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New demo as baths fight support grows

Defiant campaigners desperate to save Coseley Baths from the bulldozer held a protest in the rain as they continued their fight to get the pool reopened. Around 200 people joined the peaceful one-hour demonstration on the steps of the boarded-up ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ian Austin,  Pat McFadden

Voyage of discovery for Master of seas

It’s 0630 somewhere in the South Atlantic and Roger Chamberlain wakes, heads for the bridge and sends his latest update from the Royal Research Ship James Cook to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. It’s an average sort of day. He’s on a ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Last-minute moves to save flower show fail

Last-ditch efforts to save one of the West Midlands’ oldest flower and produce shows from the axe have failed, organisers announced today. The Codsall Wood Show enjoyed its most successful year ever in August, with a record-breaking number of people ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Millions needed for war memorial

A visitors’ centre at a memorial commemorating servicemen who died on operations since the Second World War is in danger of falling into disrepair unless £8 million is raised. The chairman of the National Memorial Arboretum’s Future Foundations Appeal ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Hoard pair to get £3m

The Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold is expected to be valued at around £3 million this week – almost double the amount of the most expensive ancient treasure previously found in the UK. Finder Terry Herbert, from Burntwood, and land owner Fred ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ferrari

Arrests in club murder inquiry

Three men have been arrested after a 50-year-old man was shot dead at a notorious Black Country nightclub, police said today. The news comes as Wolverhampton MP Pat McFadden led calls for Tropical Harmony in Bilston to be shut down after the shooting, ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pat McFadden

Mother’s five-week vigil for coma son

A hit and run victim was still fighting for his life today, more than a month after he was mown down by a car in West Bromwich. Michael Davies, aged 22, was left for dead in a gutter after he had been for a night out with friends. Doctors say he is in ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British National Party

‘Dangerous’ island may be remodelled

One of Wolverhampton city centre’s busiest roundabouts could be widened and extra lanes created as part of congestion-busting plans unveiled today. Roads around the “dangerous” Penn Road island, which is controlled by traffic lights, are regularly ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Cadbury’s defiant as Nestle weighs up bid

Cadbury chiefs today stressed they want the company to remain independent – unless the price is right, as another confectionery giant sized up a takeover bid. Nestle, the world’s second biggest confectionery firm, could challenge US food giant Kraft, ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nestle,  Royal Bank of Scotland

Go-ahead for revamp of swimming baths

Cannock Chase Council’s cabinet has decided to go ahead with a scheme to re-model the pools at Chase Leisure Centre, increase spectator seating and expand the fitness suite. Meeting in private, councillors voted in favour of an option to convert the ...

From TIM WALTERS, Express & Star,  23 Nov 2009

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