I was recently walking through the Pallasades shopping centre when i noticed this poster, advertising the Pallasades Gift Card: The perfect present every time, indeed; whose face couldn’t possibly fail to light up at receiving such a kind & thoughtful gift, when the gift of choice includes wares from these fine emporiums: One is – [...]
Unlike parking on yellow lines or overstaying in parking bays – which are now civil offences – parking on the pavement is still actually illegal. Not only this, it is downright antisocial – the weight puts extra strain on pavement masonry which is designed to carry pedestrians, not cars, invariably a car parked on the [...]
“Gordon Brown is said to be ‘very concerned’ about allegations ex minister Elliot Morley claimed £16,000 expenses on a loan he had already paid. Mr Morley has said it was a ‘mistake’ and has paid the money back – but his future as a Labour MP may be in doubt”.
Birmingham photographer Karen Strunks has been running a project for a while going round Birmingham at 4am. She recently had the idea to open it out to everybody, with the interesting twist of making it 4am on 4 April. So at the appointed hour a group of about 30 of us met at the Bull [...]