Unemployment doubled across the West Midlands as a result of the pandemic. That’s before the retail job losses announcement yesterday and the end of the furlough in March. This sort of stuff seems to be announced and generally ignored. Have people just given up or are we just overwhelmed with shit news at the moment? Anyway, shocking news for us all:
Unemployment doubles in Midlands and 500,000 more jobs to be lost
Dire warning about the impact of coronavirus and lockdown restrictions on jobs and livelihoods in the Midlandswww.birminghammail.co.uk
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They definitely should have. Bit of local history instead of bland marketing blah.Part of that ground was the site of my old junior school Birchfield Road - on the right.
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The boys senior school on left was where Ozzy Osborne and Tony Iommi went to, maybe they should have given the roads Black Sabbath references
Six new Perry Barr street names to reflect community and Commonwealth Sport values | Birmingham City Council
Six new Perry Barr street names to reflect community and Commonwealth Sport values - Six new roads forming part of the Perry Barr Residential Scheme have been officially named through a contest in which members of the public were invited to submit their suggestions and ideas. Louise Kilbride of...
"Humanity Close, Equality Road"
I took a really shit video earlier of the chaos. It was very entertaining. All really good natured but total mayhem. I could hear car horns beeping from miles away on the canal when I was out running. Had to cross Soho Road to get home. Got to love the fact that Sikhs can't have a protest without food. There was a guy handing samosas out at the flyover as people had basically parked up for a party.'Leave the area as soon as possible': Police plea as hundreds gather for international protest rally - with smoke devices set off and long delays caused
People are being urged to avoid travelling in Birmingham and Sandwell as hundreds of people take part in an international protest rally.www.expressandstar.com
Bit noisy in parts of Brum and the Black Country today. I was on Soho Rd earlier, very congested but then again it always is.
I know where Linwood Road is, many years ago I used to work on Soho Road and I got on the 11 at Boulton Road opposite back towards Perry Barr.
BCBlues if you live round there I'd have thought you would be an Albion supporter
It's true, I grew up in West Brom but there werent any football fans in our direct family to influence us so I ended up Chelsea and my brother Everton. My Dad was a Kilkenny Cat
I have however probably been to as many Albion games as I have Chelsea and my son is a season ticket holder up there.
I moved to London for a few years and because of my accent everyone assumed i was a Baggies fan
We're practically neighbours. I work near Hunters Road as well. There's been cordons outside work a few times over this last year because of armed police incidents. It's always had a reputation but I've felt safe, my neighbours are nice people, everyone is just trying to raise their family as best they can, work hard and so on. But there's some stuff you just can't escape and this is one of them. I remember there was a shooting on Regent Road in the day time not too long ago and I was pretty shocked by that. This feels like another level. Children with knives and a gun. It just feels like we've sunk so fucking low. What are we doing to help stop children ruining their lives, the lives of other people and their families? I feel so angry and totally helpless.
Yeah...I went to that school, and there was a total of one girl in my class who was actually from Handsworth. Most of them are bussed in from Sutton Coldfield.
Oh don't even get me started on the HMOs! Agree with you. They are a huge blight around here. I did enjoy the work the Birmingham Mail have done on it though, it really needs that sort of media pressure to get things to change. I think there is some hope in that respect. I have become a proper nimby with it though, there's a few local FB groups where people will put up planning applications for HMOs and encourage people to object. I do, quite a lot. I don't know how much effect it has, but you have to try. I wrote to our useless MP about it all as well.
guns as well, not the usual knives. That sort of thing is totally beyond my comprehension too - I mean, you've ruined your own life as well as taking someone else's.
