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The Birmingham Post (England)
The Birmingham Post is the daily newspaper of Birmingham, England. The Birmingham Post covers local and national news, sports, business, and weather.
Articles from April 26, 2002
Afronaut Takes off on His Ten-Day Pounds 14m Trip
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Byline: Robert Porter But Shuttleworth is determined that the world consider him more than just a passenger. He has spent eight months in gruelling training with the other cosmonauts, learned Russian so he can communicate with mission control...
A Green Dream for Eastside
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Byline: Paul Dale should be a concentration of lowcost housing for rent or shared equity purchase. It calls for more emphasis to be placed on areas free from commercial influence, where people can 'do a variety of enjoyable things for free.'...
Andersen Sacrifices Few to Save Many
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Troubled accounting firm Andersen has made a new settlement proposal to the US Justice Department in which sources said it would admit some of its employees improperly destroyed documents about bankrupt Enron. Justice Department spokesman Mark...
Barclays Brush off Pounds 1m Rise for Chief
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Byline: Nevill Boyd Maunsell On a day when Barclays' annual meeting was sidetracked by angry shareholders questioning a pounds 1 million a year pay increase awarded to their chief executive Matt Barrett, Abbey National appointed a new finance...
'Bargain Basement' Research Must End
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Byline: Richard Warburtong Ministers need to invest at least pounds 200 million a year more in university research and take back responsibility for the way it is allocated from unelected officials, MPs said yesterday. Britain's record as a...
Bishops Unite to Condemn Fascist Threat at Local Elections
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Byline: Paul Dale The Church of England stormed into the debate over far-right political extremism last night with West Midlands Bishops openly urging voters to reject fascist parties in next week's local council elections. An unprecedented...
Body Mix-Ups at Mortuary
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Byline: Jenny Hudson A study has revealed regular errors at a Midland hospital mortuary which could lead to bodies being given the wrong identification. Ten per cent of bodies at Walsall Manor Hospital were subject to mix-ups during one year...
Bra Shop Expansion Lifts Company Profile; Big Day: Bravissimo Scoops Award and Praises Region's Support of Entrepreneurs
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Byline: Shahid Naqvi Expanding lingerie shop Bravissimo which specialises in bras for large-busted women has received pleas from people all over the world to open a shop in their country. The chain's founder Sarah Tremellen said international...
Breaking Up Was Bad Move for Tyco
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Byline: Shahid Naqvi Conglomerate Tyco International has admitted its plans to split into four companies was a pounds 50 billion mistake. The group, which in the West Midlands owns Dudley-based How Fire, JW Singer & Sons and IMI's former...
Britannia Retains Its Mutual Status
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A huge vote by members of the Britannia Building Society has firmly kept the society's grip on mutual status. Richard Yendall, aged 31, who described himself as an independent candidate was unsuccessful in his election yesterday to the board of...
Car Firm Drives Its Figures into Black
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Byline: James O'Brien DaimlerChrysler came in yesterday with better than expected first quarter sales and profits and said its US Chrysler business had returned to profit after six quarters of steep losses. The group recorded an adjusted operating...
CGNU Feels Pinch of One per Cent Lid on Charges
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Byline: Nevill Boyd Maunsell Economics Editor - CGNU, Britain's biggest insurer, unsettled the stock market yesterday when it revealed the impact on its profitability of the Government's one per cent limit for charges on stakeholder pensions....
City Road Closure Was Not Necessary, Say Angry Businesses
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Companies across Birmingham were left counting the cost of yesterday's traffic chaos which left thousands of people late for work. Business leaders criticised the police for leaving busy commuter routes closed for three hours after the stand-off...
City View: Savings and Few Home Truths from Our Big Affair
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Byline: Nevill Boyd Maunsell One word was conspicuously missing from Chancellor Brown's Budget speech last week: 'savings'. Past Chancellors have been keen to promote them, not least when they wanted to damp down consumer spending. Mr Brown...
Couple Jailed for Children Snatch
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Byline: Alun Thorne A man who brought the M6 to a standstill by climbing onto a gantry to protest about his children being taken into care was jailed yesterday for snatching two of them as their foster father was taking them to school. Jason...
Cricket: Bichel's Brilliance Swamped by Records
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Byline: Ged Scott Batting records continued to tumble at sun-kissed Northampton yesterday. Sadly for Worcestershire, after such prodigious first-innings efforts, it was the home side who spent the large part of the day busy rewriting their...
Cricket: Edgbaston Nears Fever Pitch; at Edgbaston (Second Day of Four): Warwickshire (297 and 124 for Seven) Lead Lancashire (251) by 170 Runs with Three Second-Innings Wickets Remaining
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Byline: Brian Halford Warwickshire's opening championship match, against Lancashire at Edgbaston, is almost certain to conclude inside three days after the two sides swapped spectacular batting collapses on a frenzied second day. After excellent...
Cricket: Stewart Supports Tudor's Efforts in Surrey Masterclass; County Review
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Surrey were in daunting form as they taught reigning champions Yorkshire a lesson at the crease as well as in the field. Keith Medlycott's team totalled 510 for their first innings at Headingley after skittling the home side for 140 thanks to an...
Culture: Review - Boys Will Be Men in First-Class Comedy; Mike Davies Takes a Look at the Week's Cinema Releases
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Byline: Mike Davies As the comparative disappointment of the female perspective How To Be Good demonstrated, Nick Hornby novels are at their best when dealing with immature men coming of age. Both Fever Pitch and High Fidelity featured protagonists...
Culture: Reviews - Shameless Slush of Tear-Jerker
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John Q Cert 15 117 mins The NHS may be in a funding crisis that causes patients to die before they get treatment, but at least we still live in a society in which, in theory at least, everyone is entitled to free medical care. America, on the...
Culture: We Just Can't Get en'Auf of the Boys; Tim Healy Tells Sherna Noah Why the Geordie Boys Are Set to Ride the Range Again
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Byline: Sherna Noah Until now actor Tim Healy has been able to walk down the street unrecognised. But his return to a new series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet means he should prepare for the kind of reaction his wife gets when she leaves the house....
Football: Blues Show Right Qualities to Withstand Play-Off Heat
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Byline: Brian Halford Captain Jeff Kenna believes Birmingham City have the resilience necessary to see them through the play-offs this time - and the makings of a squad which could then hold down a place in the Premiership. Blues are 48 hours...
Football: Clubs Promote Conference Change
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The prospect of two teams being promoted to the Football League from the Conference moved closer to reality yesterday as Third Division clubs unanimously backed the proposals. The change in the promotionrelegation structure would also mean two...
Football: McInnes Puts Early Critics in Their Place; Albion Are Already Planning to Prove the Doubters Wrong, Reports Michael Ward
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Byline: Michael Ward Derek McInnes is as certain that West Bromwich Albion will survive in the Premiership next season as he was sure that they would take their last three points to secure automatic promotion last weekend. In response to the...
Football: Norwich Rescue Mission Achieved; GED Scott Takes a Close Look at the Canaries, Ahead of Sunday's First Division Play-Off Appointment with Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Byline: Ged Scott If anyone had any doubt as to the role fate plays in football, examine the relationship between Dave Jones and Norwich City. A mere 16 months ago, Jones - newly-available on the managerial scene following the collapse of that...
Football: Rising Dobie Wins Scotland Call-Up
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Byline: Michael Ward Scott Dobie's reward for scoring 12 goals in his First Division debut season was a surprise call-up yesterday to the senior Scotland squad. The 23-year-old West Bromwich Albionstriker, who took a quantum leap in his move...
Football: Roper Earns Walsall Stay
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Walsall were given an end-of-season boost yesterday when Ian Roper, a tower of strength in the fight for First Division survival, signed a new two-year contract. The 24-year-old defender, a product of Walsall's youth academy, spoke of his relief...
Football: Spencer Misses Invite to Town Title Party; Dr Martens Midland
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Andy Spencer will be forced to sit out Halesowen Town's championship party tomorrow. The attacking midfielder has been one of the finds of the season as Halesowen swept their way back into the Premier Division at the first attempt. But the...
Football: Tamworth Waiting on Doubtful Duo for Conference Decider; Dr Martens Premier
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Byline: Colin Stoner Paul Hatton and Dave Robinson face fitness tests tonight to decide whether they will take their place in the biggest game in Tamworth's history. Player-manager Gary Mills - a European Cup winner with Nottingham Forest...
Football: Taylor Wins Vote to Help Villa Cause
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Byline: Michael Ward Aston Villa have offered Ian Taylor a new contract as a clear sign that he has a role to play in Graham Taylor's first full season of his second term in charge of the club. The 33-year-old midfielder has dismissed speculation...
Growth on Horizon but Oil Prices a Global Threat; Business Editor John Duckers Assesses the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's View of World Growth Prospects
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Byline: John Duckers The United States is leading the world out of last year's sharp economic downturn, but recovery is still at risk from high oil prices and exaggerated stock market expectations for corporate profits, the OECD said yesterday....
Hard Rock Cafe Costs Rank Group Five per Cent
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Investors decided against placing a bet on Rank Group yesterday, despite the casino operator boosting a positive outlook for the year ahead. The owner of the Hard Rock restaurant chain, Grosvenor casinos and Mecca bingo halls said trade in the...
I'll Stop Robbery Terror by September - Blair
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Byline: Jonathan Walker Tony Blair promised to tackle the shock rise in street robberies across the West Midlands yesterday - and stuck to his selfimposed September deadline. The Prime Minister told The Birmingham Post he recognised there was...
Invensys Gets Pounds 925m to Tide It over for 11 Months
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Six banks yesterday agreed to lend Invensys pounds 965 million for 11 months to give the struggling engineering group more time to make disposals. Invensys had hoped to raise enough cash through the sale of eight businesses and further refinancing...
Is Consumer Boom Coming off the Boil?
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Retail sales stalled again in March, leading to suggestions that the consumer boom may finally be coming off the boil without interest rates going up, as the Bank of England's governor, Sir Edward George, and other members of the Bank of England's...
Learning Skills to Provide for Future; Campaigners Are Calling on Governments to Tackle a Global Education Crisis and Pave the Way for Universal Primary Education. but Chief Feature Writer Paul Groves Asks Whether the UK First Needs to Put Its Own School House in Order?
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Byline: Paul Groves Children without access to basic education. Schools struggling to find sufficient teachers or resources to educate those pupils who do attend lessons. This is the story of global education in 2002, when poor countries charge...
Legal and Finance: Emanuel Fighting for the Right to Use Priceless Name That Made Her Famous
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Fashion designer Elizabeth Emanuel has launched a courtroom battle to win back the right to use her own name on the clothes she makes - underlining the almost priceless value of a famous-name brand, according to Birmingham-based intellectual property...
Legal and Finance: 'Expanding' Russia Back in the Game
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Byline: John Duckers Russia is getting its act together, according to Charles Flint, former senior partner of Birmingham law firm Shakespeares. His comments follow a recent visit in his capacity as chairman of IAG International, an association...
Legal and Finance: Legislation for Contract Workers Lacks 'Clarity'
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New legislation designed to improve the rights of employees on fixed term contracts, including pay and pension entitlements, could open the floodgates for workplace disputes, warns Damian Kelly, employment law specialist at Eversheds' Birmingham...
Legal and Finance: Suddards Has the Edge with New Recruit
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Corporate finance partner Amanda Allen has joined the Birmingham office of Hammond Suddards Edge five months after announcing her resignation from rivals Pinsent Curtis Biddle. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures,...
Legal and Finance: Time to Check out Your IP Cover, Warns Expert
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Businesses in the Midlands should reassess their patents, trade marks and designs to encourage and protect innovation in their organisations. The challenge, from Birmingham-based patent and trade mark attorneys Marks & Clerk, came on World...
Legal and Finance: World Cup Fever Likely to Be Costly Illness for Firms; Business Editor John Duckers Looks at the Looming World Cup 'Sickie' Crisis
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Byline: John Duckers A s World Cup fever heads towards boiling point, employers are being warned about the dangers of staff arriving at work drunk after watching morning matches at the pub. The world's biggest football tournament kicks off...
Local Elections 2002: A Safe Bet Solihull Will Not Be Changing, but Watch Shirley; in the Second in a Series of Profiles Looking at Key Areas Where Local Council Elections Will Be Held on May 2, Jenny Hudson Looks at Solihull
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Byline: Jenny Hudson There is unlikely to be any radical change in the political complexion of Solihull, the only Conservative local authority in the West Midlands. The Tories have a commanding overall majority, with a total of 29 councillors,...
Man Gunned Down in Front of His Wife
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Byline: John Revill Crime Reporter john_revill@mrn.co.uk - Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after a 69-year-old man was gunned down in front of his wife outside their family home. Thomas Morgan, who was known by his middle name, Terry,...
Marconi Bosses to Face Union over Sacked Staff
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Byline: Richard Tyler Grass root union officials have called in their bosses to Marconi to decide whether management should face an industrial tribunal over how they are sacking staff at the New Century Park plant in Coventry. If the regional...
Market Report: New Friends on the Line for Vodafone
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Mobile phone giant Vodafone finally found a few friends in the City yesterday as its shares closed five per cent higher. The group rebounded strongly after dropping to 100 1 /2p earlier in the session after poor first-quarter subscriber numbers....
Motoring: A Legend Returns to the Roads
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Byline: Mike Torpey A lfa Romeo is billing the imminent arrival of its racing-derived flagship, the 156 GTA, as the return of a legend. Launch date is next Thursday, though the more romantically inclined may prefer to describe it as the day...
Motoring: Diesel Engine Gives Hot Rod That Missing Punch
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Byline: Chris Russon I t may look like a hot rod but it has taken a diesel engine to bring the best out of Chrysler's PT Cruiser. This outrageously styled American creation has enough road presence to fill a super highway but under the bonnet...
MP Tells for the First Time of His Incurable Blindness
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Birmingham Labour MP Sion Simon disclosed yesterday that he is going blind. 'Roughly speaking, I have lost half my sight over the last ten to 15 years, and will lose the other half over the next ten to 15,' Mr Simon, aged 33, said. Mr Simon...
New Labour Stealth Taxes Hit Pensioners Hard
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Byline: Penn, Wolverhampton. 5. Pension tax relief. The Government removed all tax relief on pension investments, thereby causing many companies to abandon company pension schemes as the target retirement returns can no longer be met. Likewise,...
New Magistrates: Record Number Sworn in to Cope with Workload
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A record number of magistrates was sworn in at a special ceremony held in Birmingham yesterday. A total of 41 new JPs took their oath of office at Birmingham Council House before the Recorder of Birmingham, Richard Wakerley. After undergoing...
Nicola Beats the Odds to Be a Nurse
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Living with only one arm was no barrier to 24-year-old Nicola Heazell fulfilling her ambition to become a nurse. Nicola was born three months premature, weighing just 2lbs 1oz and started her life in the intensive care department of a hospital....
Northfield By-Pass to Be Given Go-Ahead
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A pounds 10.4 million by-pass for the Northfield shopping centre in south-west Birmingham will be given formal approval by the city council cabinet on Monday, writes Paul Dale. But the new road, which has been seven years in the planning, will not...
Perspective: The Facts about Politicians and Elections
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Byline: Jonathan Walker Why do politicians feel a need to listen to ordinary people when elections are coming? Surely this is the worst possible time to go on a fact-finding mission. The political parties have already made up their minds. ...
Police Reform Bill Takes Knock
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Government plans for a crackdown on street crime suffered a setback in the Lords yesterday, when peers inflicted a string of defeats on its Police Reform Bill. A controversial measure - not yet debated by MPs - would allow police forces to recruit...
Pounds 10bn Would Make UK's Higher Education the Best
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Byline: Richard Warburton The Pro Chancellor of the University of Birmingham has issued the Government with a pounds 10 billion wish list to make Britain's higher education system the best in the world. Lord Hannay of Chiswick has accused the...
Pounds 220m Deal Boosts Masshouse Plans
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Byline: Paul Dale The regeneration of Birmingham Eastside moves a step closer today with the announcement of a pounds 220 million deal to construct an urban village on the concrete wastelands of Masshouse Circus. City council leaders confirmed...
Pressing Engagement for Start-Up Winners
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A Bloxwich manufacturing firm specialising in pressings, welding and carbon dioxide spot welding, has won the Business Start-Up of the Year title in a new enterprise competition organised by Black Country Chamber & Business Link. The company...
Property: For What It's Worth
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Views of The Old Rectory It doesn't take long to spend a million pounds once you've found it. It will buy: four small cottages or three slightly bigger ones; two large period semis in a newly-posh suburb or one new, 'executive' top address with...
Racing: Pearls of Optimism Surround McMahon
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Byline: Veritas Tamworth trainer Bryan McMahon is hoping Persian Pearl, who cost about 1,000 guineas as a yearling, could be ready in time to go for the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas on Sunday, May 5. Persian Pearl had three outings last year, winning...
Residential Property: Affordable Pads for the B1 Hunter
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Byline: Marsya Lennox This week brought good news for city buyers after central pads with smaller price tags. Especially pleased will be homehunters who may be richer and readier than they were two years ago when Nicholson Estates launched...
Residential Property: A School of Thought on Catchment Prices
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Parents continue to 'pay' for the schooling of their choice, inside and outside the state sector. Good local schools put upward pressure on catchment prices - bad news for 'child-free' purchasers who also like the area, good news for vendors....
Residential Property: Auction Properties Sold at a Premium
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Byline: Marsya Lennox A 100 per cent success rate was recorded at John Shepherd's first auction of the year, earlier this month at the White Swan Hotel in Henley-in-Arden. 'To say that the sale room was overflowing would be an understatement,'...
Residential Property: Bidding to Land Upmarket Building Plots at Dunchurch
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A national house building company has paid more than pounds 2.5 million for a 2.8-acre development site in the upmarket village of Dunchurch near Rugby. The residential building land was sold with planning permission for 15 detached houses and...
Residential Property: Buyers Can't Help but Take the Liberty
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Byline: Marsya Lennox Latest sales figures at three emerging city schemes point to the continuing appeal of the urban lifestyle. More than 80 per cent of the first release of 129 flats has been sold at Crosby Homes' Liberty Place scheme. ...
Residential Property: Grade II Thatched Cottage with Church Views
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The Stratford-upon-Avon branch of Bigwood is inviting offers around pounds 475,000 for The Old Four Thatches at Lower Quinton, Grade II listed living space opposite the church. It offers just about everything a buyer might expect of a period,...
Residential Property: Hansome, Three-Storey End Terrace
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Byline: Helen Macklin In the week that we celebrated Shakespeare's birthday, it is fitting that we also celebrate the Bard's home town. William Shakespeare was born April 23rd, in Stratford upon Avon, which has now become internationally famous....
Residential Property: Homes Recall Regency Era of Splendour
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Byline: Marsya Lennox At the admired Regency heart of Leamington Spa, it is the original, stuccoed terraces, crescents and squares that remain a top target among urban settlers. The compact centre owes its elegant lines and street scenes to...
Residential Property: Imaginative Lines in Leafy Sutton
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Byline: Marsya Lennox Bryant Country Homes hit on a winning formula for sales success with an exclusive scheme at Little Aston Park, completed two years ago. As quickly as the Park Drive homes were being released, willing buyers were there...
Residential Property: Looking for a Home on the Hoof
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Byline: Marsya Lennox More people are looking for urban fringe property - with room for a horse, reports the John German estate agency. 'It's not hard to understand why, with full livery often costing between pounds 50 and pounds 80 per week,'...
Residential Property: Mod Cons in Historic Surrounds
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Byline: Marsya Lennox The Grade ll* listed Shurnock Court near Feckenham in Worcestershire, available with more than 12 acres, cottage and stabling. The guide price is pounds 1.3 million The guest bedroom suite which is lined with original...
Residential Property: Prime Property with Elizabethan Look
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These are busy times in a 'good spring market' with a positive mood, plenty of sales and no let-up in new instructions. 'We are not seeing huge price increases but there is a market and no sign of quietening down,' says Ginny Vaughan, of Vaughan...
Residential Property: Timber-Framed Home Boasts 14th Century Roots
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Byline: Marsya Lennox Agents with a county town platform are well placed to secure those star instructions which epitomise old Warwickshire - and draw serious spending power. Paul Twyneham & Co, which has offices in Jury Street, Warwick,...
Residential Property: Unusual Extra Makes for a Loftier Way of Life
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Large, multi-purpose lofts provide unusual selling points to two brand new apartments by Crosby Homes in Knowle. At the Pavilion development in Station Road, Knowle, the generous upper floor flats come with a flexible attic extra, boarded out...
Residential Property: Wall to Wall with Attractive Extras
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Byline: Marsya Lennox The dining room with the garden wall to one side and the big conservatory to the other. Aperiod feature runs right through the middle of The Garden House at Edstone in Warwickshire. The high, period brick wall to the...
Rooftop Drama Leaves Commuters Gridlocked
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Byline: Emma Brady The fragile state of Birmingham's road network was exposed again yesterday when a single incident caused gridlock across the city centre. The road closures needed so police could deal with a man throwing masonry, scaffolding...
Rugby Union: Dudley Kingswinford Prepared for Historic Cornish Challenge
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Byline: Michael Blair Dudley Kingswinford have been promoted every other year since they started league life in Midlands West Two, they've played a cup final at Twickenham and they've hit the national leagues with conspicuous vigour. But all...
'Russian Roulette' over Rail Safety
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Byline: Peter Woodman Rail chiefs yesterday risked the wrath of crash victims' families by recommending a long lead-in time for the installation of a key train safety system. A public inquiry report after the 1999 Paddington crash (below) ...
Shadow Minister Pools Resources
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Byline: Neil Connor Shadow Local Government Minister Teresa May visited a Birmingham suburb yesterdayto lend support to campaigners who are urging the city council to renovate historic swimming baths. Ms May, shadow minister for Transport,...
Sharon May Give Arafat a Chance to Make Peace
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Ariel Sharon said yesterday he may allow Yasser Arafat to return to the Gaza Strip to test if he is committed to trying to stop Palestinian suicide bombers. The Israeli prime minister said he would consider letting Mr Arafat slip out of his Ramallah...
Sony Is Only Bright Spot in Grey Market
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Byline: James O'Brien Electronics and telecommunications companies are still riding their turbulent markets with little sign of serious improvements. The only bright spot as leading companies in the sector gave details of their figures came from...
Spotter Notes Could Have Been 'Used by Enemy'
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British plane spotters arrested for spying at a Greek airfield were carrying papers saying their hobby was illegal in Greece, their espionage trial heard yesterday. The 12, including 38-year-old Wayne Groves from Tamworth, Staffordshire, were...
Tenants Volunteer to Help Solve Neighbour Conflicts
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Byline: Neil Connor Volunteers from the community are to be drafted in to resolve conflicts between neighbours in Birmingham following a 50 per cent increase in mediation cases in five years. The scheme, which is the first of its kind in the...
The Damilola Case: Detective Denies Hunt for Murderers Became 'A Fiasco'
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The detective who led the Damilola Taylor murder inquiry yesterday defended the police investigation saying officers did everything they could to catch the killers. Detective Superintendent Trevor Shepherd said the investigating team felt 'disappointment'...
The Damilola Case: Lawyer Blames Police for Lack of Credible Evidence
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The acquittal of the two brothers of Damilola Taylor's murder was the only result 'that truth and logic would allow', their lawyer said yesterday. Speaking outside the Old Bailey after the verdicts, solicitor Christopher Hartnell said the brothers...
The Damilola Case: My Sons Didn't Kill Little Boy
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Byline: Shenai Raif Two teenage brothers walked free from the Old Bailey yesterday after being cleared of the murder of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor. The boys, both aged 16, wept after the jury foreman delivered unanimous not guilty verdicts...
The Damilola Case: Trial Still Leaves Question Was It Murder or Accident?
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The end of the Damilola Taylor trial has left the most important question unanswered - was he killed or did he die by accident? Courtenay Griffiths QC had told jurors during the Old Bailey trial that police had assumed Damilola (right) was a victim...
TV Viewer Claims to Have Found Purse like Milly's
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Police were yesterday following up a new lead about Amanda Dowler's disappearance which emerged from a TV appeal. A viewer called the BBC1 television programme Crimewatch last night claiming to have found a purse like Amanda's. On Wednesday...
UK Growth Likely to Pick Up This Year, Says Chirpy OECD
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Byline: John Duckers Economic growth in Britain is likely to pick up this year as the world economy recovers but the Bank of England will need to raise interest rates to slow runaway consumer spending, the OECD said yesterday. But, in its...
