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- Birmingham City opt against signing Christian Benitez
- 16th May 2010
- Striker Christian Benitez has left Birmingham after the club opted not to take up the option to sign the Ecuadorian on a permanent deal. The 24-year-old arrived on a season-long loan deal from Mexican side Santos Laguna in July last year, with a fee to si...
- Man United to play first football game in Aviva Stadium
- 13th May 2010
- Manchester United will play a friendly in Dublin on 4 August in the first football match in the new Aviva Stadium at Lansdowne Road. The pre-season encounter will pit Sir Alex Ferguson's men against a League of Ireland Selection. The match will give a ch...
- Birmingham City planning a tour to Hong Kong and China
- 13th May 2010
- Birmingham City's players and coaching staff will spend nearly two weeks in the Far East ahead of their next Premier League campaign. The trip from July 14-27 will take in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shenyang with one match in each city. Blues are owned by a ...
- Planes given six-hour window at Manchester Airport
- 17th April 2010
- Flights at Manchester Airport may be able to take off and land for a period of six hours before the volcanic ash cloud returns again. The air traffic control body Nats said airports in the north will be able to reopen from 0400 BST until 1000 BST on Satur...
- Volcanic ash keeps Birmingham Airport closed
- 17th April 2010
- Birmingham Airport remains closed for a third day as a ban on flights in English airspace is extended until at least 0100 BST on Sunday. Ash from a volcano in Iceland blowing over the UK prompted the ban, first introduced on Thursday. National Air Traffi...
- Bid for new Coventry and Nuneaton rail link submitted
- 31st March 2010
- A bid for £15. 8m funding for a proposed new rail link between Coventry and Nuneaton has been sent to the Department for Transport (DfT). The proposal includes a new station at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton, a new bay platform at Coventry station and a l...
- International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010
- 31st March 2010
- The world's top dancers are set to arrive in Birmingham for a dance extravaganza. The International Dance Festival Birmingham runs from 19 April to 15 May 2010, across five city centre venues. Free events will also be held in open spaces and shopping cen...
- Manchester United wait on Wayne Rooney ankle scan
- 31st March 2010
- Manchester United and England fans are waiting to hear the extent of an ankle injury suffered by striker Wayne Rooney in Tuesday's 2-1 loss to Bayern Munich. He turned his right ankle in the build-up to Bayern's late winner in the Champions League, limpin...
- BA strike affects Manchester Airport
- 22nd March 2010
- Up to 500 passengers flying from Manchester Airport stand to be affected by the British Airways strike. Six BA flights from Manchester to Heathrow have been cancelled - leaving just four on Saturday and six on Sunday. BA no longer operates direct long ha...
- Can we use 'holes in the ground'?
- 22nd March 2010
- Have you noticed a proliferation of 'holes in the ground'? Not the pothole-type but rather a number of high-profile developments in Leeds, and elsewhere in the county, that have ground to a halt mainly as a result of the recession. A national campaign, c...
- Dowie stars as Everton sink Chelsea
- 22nd March 2010
- England striker Natasha Dowie bagged a brace as Everton won 5-2 at Chelsea in the Women's Premier League. The win saw the Toffees leapfrog the Blues and move into third in the table. Leeds Carnegie also moved ahead of Chelsea thanks to a 4-0 victory at M...
- Air traffic plunge at recession-hit Manchester Airport
- 15th March 2010
- The number of passengers travelling through Manchester Airport plummeted in 2009 as the recession took hold. The country's largest regional airport saw a drop of 2. 4 million passengers - a fall of 11. 5% - compared to 2008. London's airports saw a cut o...
- Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie targets world record
- 03rd March 2010
- Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie has not ruled out a world record attempt when he competes in the 10km Great Manchester Run on Sunday, 16 May. The 36-year-old, who won the race last year and in 2005, insists the flatness of the city-centre course makes...
- Tetley's beer brewing history in Leeds
- 03rd March 2010
- For generations, since 1822, the Tetley's brewery has sat on the southern approaches to Leeds. Now Carlsberg is planning to close Tetley's, it was announced back in November 2008. The company blamed falling consumption, higher duties and regulatory press...
- Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman
- 27th February 2010
- Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a "high status" woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times. Academics say the discovery goes against the common assumption that all Africans in Roman Britain were lo...
- Cheryl Cole's life in the spotlight
- 27th February 2010
- With Cheryl Cole announcing her separation from footballer husband Ashley, BBC News entertainment reporter Fiona Pryor looks back at the singer's life in the spotlight. When five girls were plucked from obscurity on an ITV talent show, no-one would have ...
- 'Happy marriage cuts fatal stroke risk for men'
- 27th February 2010
- If you are a man, marriage can cut your risk of stroke, unless you are in an unhappy one, say researchers. A study of 10,000 Israelis found both bachelors and those in loveless marriages had a far higher risk of fatal stroke than happily married men. Exp...
- Little Liam thanks Ocean Colour Scene for his big break
- 27th February 2010
- A Birmingham musician has paid tribute to Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Cradock for helping to launch his solo career. Liam Garland first met lead guitarist Steve some 16 years ago when he wandered into a Moseley recording studio. He formed a close friendsh...
- Manchester City's Carlos Tevez could face Chelsea
- 24th February 2010
- Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says striker Carlos Tevez will return in time to face Chelsea on Saturday. Tevez was allowed to return to his native Argentina earlier this month after complications with his wife Vanesa's pregnancy. Until this wee...
- Coventry plans street light dimmer switch technology
- 24th February 2010
- Dimmer switch technology will be fitted to thousands of replacement street lights in Coventry to help save energy and money. Coventry City Council is proposing to replace 28,000 of its 32,000 street lights over the next five years. It wants to be able to...
- Cheryl Cole splits from footballer Ashley Cole
- 24th February 2010
- Pop star Cheryl Cole is separating from her husband, England and Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole. "Cheryl asks the media to respect her privacy during this difficult time," a statement from her spokesman said. It follows press reports about the ...
- Jamaica's 2012 Olympics team plan Birmingham base
- 24th February 2010
- The Jamaican track and field team have signed a deal to bring their athletes to Birmingham for the 2012 Olympics. It means the city will be home to two high-profile training camps. The deals with the Jamaicans and the United States, which was signed last...
- Film and TV archives will be on stream at new library
- 18th February 2010
- Hours of classic films, television and home movies will be available at the touch of a button at Birmingham's new central library. The library, which is due to open in 2013, has teamed up with the British Film Institute to open a 'Mediatheque'. Visitors ...
- University and college enter into merger talks
- 18th February 2010
- The University of Edinburgh has agreed to enter into talks with Edinburgh College of Art over a possible merger. The governing bodies of the two institutions have given their principals permission to explore the issue of integration. However, both establ...
- Man Utd as good as 1999 Treble-winning team - Beckham
- 18th February 2010
- AC Milan midfielder David Beckham says the current Manchester United team is as good as the Treble-winning side he was part of in 1999. Beckham, 34, hopes to come up against his former club for the first time since he left in 2003 in Tuesday's Champions L...
- Leeds United still hope to sign Paul Dickov
- 18th February 2010
- Leeds United still hope to sign former Scotland striker Paul Dickov despite a move for him being blocked by Fifa. A player can represent a maximum of two clubs in one season in the same country and the 37-year-old free agent has already played for Leicest...
- To Romania with love from Leeds
- 11th February 2010
- I've been going to Romania since 1989 when I was involved with the Convoy of Hope, a disaster relief organisation. It was my financial advisor at the time that first got me involved in this charity work. Then in 2002, Simon Hartley and I, both businessma...
- Alexander McQueen, UK fashion designer, found dead
- 11th February 2010
- One the UK's most influential fashion designers, Alexander McQueen, has been found dead at his London home. The death of Mr McQueen, 40, is not being treated as suspicious, the Metropolitan Police said. Reports that the four-time British designer of the ...
- Marriage rate falls to lowest level since records began
- 11th February 2010
- Marriage rates in England and Wales have fallen for a fourth year to reach their lowest level since records began. A total of 232,990 couples wed in 2008, down 1% on the year before, Office for National Statistics figures showed. For every 1,000 adult me...
- Councillors agree to third Edinburgh tax freeze
- 11th February 2010
- Edinburgh City Council will freeze council tax for the third successive year. Councillors said they would also put investment in education and care services at the heart of the city's budget. It is understood that the overall schools budget will increase...