The supposed return of BRMB

I have just come off the phone from a reliable and committed former BRMB presenter saying I hear BRMB is coming back! I have a list now of calls and texts and emails asking the same question. I know Tom Ross has covered the issue in some detail but for the record I thought

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A new dawn for BBC local radio

It was very interesting to read Stuart Thomas’s (BBC Head of content Production for the Midlands) letter to the Birmingham Mail (Wednesday June 21) criticising my comments on the BBC cuts in local radio although in his words not cuts but ‘changes’.

                Baron Hall of Birkenhead, former Director General of the BBC and

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More cuts to BBC local radio

It was very interesting to read Stuart Thomas’s (BBC Head of content Production for the Midlands) letter to the Birmingham Mail (Wednesday June 21) criticising my comments on the BBC cuts in local radio although in his words not cuts but ‘changes’.

                Baron Hall of Birkenhead, former Director General of the BBC and

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Cuts to BBC Local radio

More news of the demolition of local broadcast services by the BBC arrived last week. Effectively local TV news bulletins at breakfast and at 10.30pm will be drastically reduced in length. Together with the already announced shrinkage of local radio staff in the region this is another dagger in the heart of BBC local

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Erasmus Darwin

Lichfield thankfully kept this house which is a tangible effort to maintain the memory of a genius and awareness of the grandfather of Charles Darwin. The visit alone will tell you something of this man who was a scientist, a doctor, a polymath, a genius and the grandfather of Charles Darwin. He was a

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