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Christina Savvas B'ham Mail 31 Dec 10
Fifty West Midlanders have been recognised for outstanding achievement and service in the 2010 New Year’s Honours list including two living in Walsall.
MBE for Charles David Partridge. For services to the community in Walsall
MBE for Mrs Nora Damaris Allen for services to HM Prison Featherstone, Wolverhampton and to the community in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. (Walsall)…
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Jayne Howarth's Weblog 10 Sep 10
For years I have maintained that September 1 is the REAL New Year, the time when resolutions should be made. How many of us make solemn pledges to ourselves as the final bars of Olde Lange Syne fade into the ether, only to abandon them by mid January?
And January is such a depressing month to be making big changes: you are still coming down from the heady excitement of Christmas (avoiding all bills until February) and it feels so very, very flat. It’s dark, dank, gloomy. Usually wet or snowy. It is not the time to be planning dramatic weight loss.
So, September 1 it is for me.
Why? It’s probably something to do with…
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BBC News 1 Jan 10
Countries around the world have been holding celebratory events to welcome in 2010. New Year arrived first in the South Pacific. At midnight local time (1100 GMT) fireworks were set off over Auckland’s Sky Tower in New Zealand…
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B'ham Post 30 Dec 09
It has not, as the Queen reminded us in her Christmas message, been a very good year. The worst recession in living memory, soaring unemployment and eye-watering government debt, not to mention a renewed terrorism threat, suggests that 2010 is unlikely to be much better…
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Express & Stars 26 Dec 09
Tens of thousands of bargain hunters queued from dawn today as shops across the West Midlands embarked on major post-Christmas cost-cutting. A combination of poor November sales figures and the 2.5 per cent increase in VAT, which comes into effect on New Year’s Day, means shops are offering the lowest prices while they still can…