Are Birmingham’s Councillors Community Champions?

That’s the question being asked (and answered?) at the Birmingham Residents University on the morning of Thursday 28th February.  Amongst the panel will be a couple of Birmingham’s blogging councillors – Martin Mullaney and Zoe Hopkins (intermitent poster)  alongside Salma Yaqoob and Robert Alden. Anyway what do you think – do you trust your local …

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Outdoor

Steve Gerrard is an enormously talented photographer from brum.  This image caught my attention because of the very brummie words on the door glass.  Thanks Antonio.  See you both at the next brum bloggers meet?

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Grassroots Channel Spiked by the iPhone

13,587 programmes were downloaded from the Grassroots Channel Podcast in December 2007, 30% up on both November 2007 and the month just finished, January 2008. Would I be right to speculate that this mini spike is caused by Christmas playtime for people with the new iPhones and iPods? No help from looking at the figures …

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Podcast: The Saint of Street Racing?

Is there a solution to street racing in Birmingham? Masood Ajaib of the Washwood Heath based community enterprise Commpact thinks there is. He has signed up for an experiment to find a communal way of turning a dangerous Saturday night on Landor Street into a peaceful pastime somewhere safe. Listen here for the conversation or …

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