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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited Walsall Beeches Club this week, addressing a cheering and over-capacity crowd of Walsall residents. The Labour leader was kicking off Labour’s programme of community organising in Walsall North – which will be led by Labour’s parliamentary candidate in the constituency, Gill Ogilvie – but unsurprisingly, so many people had turned up to see…
At a rally at Walsall Beeches Club on Monday afternoon, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed a cheering crowd of Walsall residents. The Labour leader was kicking off Labour’s programme of community organising in Walsall North, which will be led by Labour’s parliamentary candidate in the constituency, Gill Ogilvie.
Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley, took to the streets of Birmingham this week to get a taste of life as a Big Issue vendor. Joining 25-year-old Big Issue vendor Michael Hadley on his regular pitch in Piccadilly Arcade, the parliamentarian spent Thursday experiencing the challenges of selling the street magazine first-hand.
As temperatures plummeted across the country this week and schools were out on account of heavy snowfall, out came an army of frozen snowmen raised across front yards, back gardens and public parks. And it wouldn’t quite be a very British winter without some snow sculpture tributes to popular culture figureheads.
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…
A local teenager has taken on a PC from West Midlands Police after over five officers were sent to a McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham to remove an allegedly “homeless” man. 17-year-old Luke Holland from Kings Heath challenged the officer after a team of officers attempted to remove a man who was reportedly sleeping in the Cherry…