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Gavin Drake 30 Jan 11
The manager of my local Tesco is creating a bit of a storm. Apparently he wants to move to Sainsburys.
That’s not the shocking thing – managers do make the switch from time to time back and forth. Nor is it a shock when he says he wants his customers to move with him – every salesman hopes to build up customer loyalty.
No, the real shock is that he expects Tesco to give him some space in his old store so that he can open his branch of Sainsburys there. He says that while his customers want to enjoy the Sainsburys’ experience, they much prefer Clubcard points to Nectar points; and he thinks Tesco is being mean spirited by not allowing his old customers to buy from Sainsburys using Tesco’s existing store.
Of course, you can take this analogy too far…
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B'ham Mail 23 Oct 10
The Roman Catholic church faces fresh child abuse questions following the conviction of a priest, originally from Brownhills, after the court heard he was paid up to £800 a month by the Archdiocese of Birmingham – despite officials knowing of the allegations against him.
Judge Thomas described the Roman Catholic Church’s role in Robinson’s case as highly questionable as it emerged he was paid until December 2001…
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B'ham Mail 23 Oct 10
As former West Midlands priest James Robinson prepares to spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexual abuse offences, it was disclosed a further three victims have come forward.
Detectives say the three men reported their abuse at the hands of Robinson during their investigations, but declined to take part in the court process.
And detectives say they are certain more are remaining silent…
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BBC News 22 Oct 10
A former priest has been jailed for 21 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing boys when he served at churches in the West Midlands.
Richard John James Robinson, 73, had denied 21 charges relating to alleged offences against boys aged under 16 between 1959 and 1983…
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B'ham Post 21 Oct 10
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts on a former priest accused of committing a string of sex offences against young boys in the West Midlands between 1959 and 1983.
The jury, sitting at Birmingham Crown Court, has heard almost three weeks of evidence in the trial of James Robinson, who denies having any sexual contact with six alleged victims…
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B'ham Post 19 Oct 10
A former Roman Catholic priest originally from Aldridge accused of a string of sex offences against young boys has denied having any sexual contact with any of his alleged victims.
James Robinson told a jury that he could not even recall meeting one of the six men who have accused him of abusing them between 1959 and 1983…
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B'ham Post 15 Oct 10
An alleged victim of an ex-priest accused of a string of sex offences in the West Midlands has told a jury that he still recognised his attacker’s face almost five decades after being abused.
The man, now aged in his 60s, told jurors he had “carried” the face of James Robinson with him since being assaulted in Aldridge aged just 10 or 11…
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B'ham Mail 8 Oct 10
A former priest accused of sexually abusing young boys in the West Midlands asked to meet one of his alleged victims after returning to Britain from America, a court has been told.
Birmingham Crown Court heard James Robinson, who is alleged to have molested six boys between 1959 and 1983, met one of them at a pub in the Walsall area in the late 1990s…
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B'ham Post 5 Oct 10
A 62-year-old man has told a court he felt “like a lamb to the slaughter” when he was allegedly sexually abused as a young boy in the West Midlands by a Roman Catholic priest.
The alleged victim told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court he was abused by James Robinson in Walsall from the age of 11 until his late teens…
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Mercury 4 Oct 10
A former Roman Catholic priest with a “dreadful weakness” for young boys moved from parish to parish sexually abusing children over the course of 24 years, a court has heard.
James Robinson, 73, is alleged to have committed a string of offences against six boys aged under 16 between 1959 and 1983 at a number of churches in the West Midlands including Walsall…