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West Midlands Police officer fined £200 for racist conduct towards female officer

A West Midlands Police officer who made inappropriate, discriminatory and racist comments towards a female colleague last December has been found guilty and fined for his disgraceful conduct. The matter was subject to a criminal investigation which resulted in PC Joe Courtney being charged with two counts of committing a racially aggravated public order offence.

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A pot of out-of-date grapes and strawberries, with mould growing on one, found at Tesco Express in Carrs Lane

Tesco fined £7.5m for selling out-of-date food at Birmingham stores as health officers find “visible mould” during visit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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Hookahs and Shisha lounge by Jeremiah Roth

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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Luke Holland engages with the police officer in a McDonald’s restaurant in Cherry Street

West Midlands Police respond to arrest of “homeless” man in Birmingham McDonalds

West Midlands Police have responded to claims that a “homeless” man was arrested from a McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham city centre. During an incident just over a week ago, a local teenager confronted an officer from West Midlands Police after over five officers were sent to a McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham’s Cherry Street to remove…

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