A pot of out-of-date grapes and strawberries, with mould growing on one, found at Tesco Express in Carrs Lane

Tesco fined £7.5m for selling out-of-date food at Birmingham stores as health officers find “visible mould” during visit

Tesco Stores Limited has been fined £7.5 million at Birmingham Magistrates Court yesterday, after pleading guilty to selling food which was past its ‘use by’ date in three of its Birmingham stores. Birmingham City Council brought the prosecution under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 after inspections by Environmental Health officers found stores…

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Pearl Food Distribution in Birmingham has been fined over £60,000 for unsafe work practices

Birmingham warehouse fined over £60,000 for unsafe working practices

A food warehouse has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to four offences under health and safety legislation at Birmingham Magistrates Court yesterday. Birmingham City Council prosecuted Pearl Food Distribution Ltd – based at Unit 33 Middlemore Industrial Estate, Middlemore Road, Birmingham – after a safety inspector saw an employee raised up on a pallet balanced…

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Police defend decision to fine Birmingham pub bombings campaigners £200 for attending memorial

Police in the West Midlands have defended a decision to fine campaigners attending a memorial to the Birmingham pub bombings for breaching coronavirus restrictions. Six people were issued with fixed penalty notices after attending the event last November, including Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was killed in the 1974 attack.

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New police measures could land individuals £6,400 fine for breaking lockdown restrictions

As the nation’s third lockdown in less than a year is underway, police forces across the country have received revised government’s regulations to enforce COVID-19 safety restrictions on the public, with maximum fines of up to £6,400 per person. Although there has been confusion at times during the previous two lockdowns as to who can be out and about, as…

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Police shut down Birmingham shisha lounge only days after it was fined £10,000

Police officers have forced a shisha lounge in Birmingham to shut down after it was caught breaching COVID-19 rules, only days after already being hit with a £10,000 fine for an earlier breach. A closure order has been issued to Kasablanca in Highgate, after West Midlands Police forced their way in to the venue at 1am on Saturday (24 October) to find…

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Police have fined Lab11 in Birmingham for allegedly breaking socialising rules around coronavirus restrictions

£10,000 fine issued after Digbeth venue Lab 11 claims indoor event is actually outdoors

West Midlands Police have handed out a £10,000 fine to a venue in Digbeth after it held an event in a specially constructed marquee and claimed it was an outdoor event. Officers were called to Lab 11 on Saturday (17 October) night following “concerns that different households were mixing”, which is currently banned as Birmingham’s COVID-19 alert level is presently at…

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