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Mail 27 Feb 11
The oldest father of twins in Britain has had another child at 72 and – he says he wants even more children.
Richard Roden from Brownhills is now a father of 13 after his 26-year-old wife Lisa gave birth to a daughter Madison last month.
Less than two years ago the former welder became the oldest man ever to have twins when his young partner gave birth to Emily and Ruby…
Feature
BrownhillsBob 14 Jan 11
I spotted in The Walsall Advertiser that local history buff and top bloke Brian Stringer has got a self-published book out at the moment, detailing his childhood growing up in Clayhanger.
Brian mentioned the book was upcoming in some correspondence I had with him last year, and as soon as I heard it was available, I immediately went out and bought a copy. Flicking through, this beautifully produced biography has got some lovely tales in there, some old photos and a good helping of humour. It’s clearly a gentle, touching work…
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B'ham Mail 11 Jan 11
Tributes to a Walsall nursing heroine will be paid to coincide with her birthday. The memory of Sister Dora will be honoured in Walsall on Sunday – the same day as her birthday – with a service at The Crossing at St Paul’s at 11am.
Mayoress Yvonne Clarke will place the first floral wreath at the Sister Dora statue in nearby Bridge Street when the congregation leaves the church at 11.50am…
Feature
Roz Laws Mercury 10 Jan 11
She worried about her weight, her lack of success with boys and her feeling of loneliness at being an outsider. Now Meera Syal is opening up her teenage diaries to reveal what it was like growing up in the Black Country in the 1970s.
She is appearing on Tuesday’s edition of the Radio 4 series My Teenage Diary, reading out excerpts from her funny and poignant writings…
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Jonny Greatrex Mercury 9 Jan 11
The jilted wife of a Walsall MP who stole British secrets for the Soviet Union in the 1960s has claimed her late husband was not a spy.
John Stonehouse, who represented Walsall North until 1974, famously faked his own death to elope with his secretary Sheila Buckley…
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B'ham Mail 31 Dec 10
A former West Bromwich landlady has told of her joy after her 24-year-old daughter became engaged to Playboy millionaire Hugh Hefner.
The 84-year-old California Casanova has ‘mother-in-law’s’ blessing from Lee Lovitt, who said she was “proud” to hear Hef and her daughter, Crystal Harris, became engaged on Christmas Eve…
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Alan Travis Guardian 30 Dec 10
Margaret Thatcher agreed to a cover-up when information from a Czech defector confirmed in 1980 that John Stonehouse, the former Labour minister and Walsall MP who “did a Reggie Perrin”, had been a spy.
At a Downing Street meeting on 6 October 1980 with her home secretary, William Whitelaw, and attorney-general Sir Michael Havers, Thatcher agreed that Stonehouse should not be confronted with the new information nor prosecuted.
The decision to keep secret Stonehouse’s espionage followed hard on the heels of the exposure in 1979 of Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, as a Soviet spy.
The confirmation that Stonehouse was a paid spy for the Czechs also makes him the only British politician to have acted as a foreign agent while a minister…
Football
Mark Cowan B'ham Mail 28 Dec 10
Imagine trying to uphold the law while surrounded by a baying mob hurling abuse. For Alan Wiley the testing experience could equally describe his role as a top Premiership referee or pounding the beat for West Midlands Police in Walsall.
After blowing full time on his police career, he has lifted the lid on life in the Thin Blue Line…
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Express & Star 7 Dec 10
The 26-year-old wife of Britain’s oldest dad of twins cheated nearly £7,000 of taxpayers’ money after failing to tell authorities she had married her 72-year-old husband.
Lisa Roden, of Brownhills, hit the headlines after having twins by father-of-12 Richard Roden, who is 46 years her senior, in January 2009…
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Express & Star 1 Jun 10
A 72-year-old who is Britain’s oldest dad of twins is to become a father again bringing his brood to a total of 13.
Delighted Richard Roden and wife Lisa who at 26 is 46 years his junior today announced they are expecting their third child together in January…