Cardiff City’s Kenny Miller suffering from a head injury With a number of high-profile head injury incidents hitting the sports headlines, Alex Bratu investigates whether current protocol and rules are protecting players from potential brain injury that can last for the rest of that person’s lifetime. On a brisk and blustery Wednesday night on the south coast of England, former Premier League champions Chelsea suffered an embarrassing 4-0 defeat to bottom half team Bournemouth, in a game that heaped pressure on the West London side. Following the game, pressure was also heaped on the Football Association over an incident in…
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A researcher specialising in Brexit has warned that divisions in the UK over leaving the EU may worsen. Jay Rowe from the Centre for Brexit Studies, said: “We probably haven’t seen the full extent of how divided the nation will be because the Brexit process is still ongoing.” Rowe was talking to Birmingham Eastside reporter Laura Sanders at the Centre for Brexit Studies annual conference in London. https://twitter.com/laurathejourno/status/1111580564769964033 Jay Rowe is researching voter attitudes and perceptions towards Brexit and how they have changed over time. “We’re always given a lot of information from the media about politics, but sometimes our…
Follow our reporters Amanda Loviza, Laura Sanders and Jessica Quinlan as they report live on the Centre for Brexit Studies Annual Conference in London. Join in the discussion using the hashtag #BrumOnBrexit
Image from Stock Catalog The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust placed 84th in Stonewall’s Top 100 LGBT+ employers for 2019, following the recent release of the list, and officials want to improve on this position. The trust was one of many organisations commended by Stonewall for their “great work over the past year to help achieve acceptance without exception for all LGBT people.” The Stonewall Top 100 Employers are the best performing employers on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2019, an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans staff. Around 445 organisations entered into the 2019…
A group of violent Birmingham carjackers have had their prison terms almost doubled after West Midlands Police and the CPS appealed the leniency of their sentences. Carjackers Sarweeth Rehman, 22, and Hussun Ashraf, 22, were convicted for assaulting motorists with golf clubs, baseball bats or metal bars, before stealing the victims’ high-end cars. A third man, Adam Azal, 22, was also arrested for his role in using a tow truck to steal seven cars. Originally, Rehman was jailed for five years and nine months, Ashraf for six years and four months, and Azal for three years and ten months. However,…
image by Elliott Brown Birmingham City Council has decided to uphold the licensing suspension on Zara’s Bar following a second hearing into a violent incident. Representatives of Zara’s Bar attended a licensing committee meeting on Monday to try to regain their previously suspended licence, but the council chose to uphold the suspension. The licence had previously been suspended due to police accusations that staff had incited violence, starting a fight which led to petrol bomb attacks in retaliation. Licensing Officer PC Abdool Rohomon was present at the meeting to argue the case that the licence should remain suspended due to safety…