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  • BULL RING MARKETS: a brief history
    • Council information about the markets
    • Friends of Bull Ring Markets set up a campaign
    • OUTDOOR MARKET
      • A summary – some issues
      • SAVE THE MARKETS CAMPAIGN: a video clip – market traders speak out
        • People say . . .
        • Press release from Digbeth’s Birmingham Friends of the Earth
    • WHOLESALE MARKET – Role
      • A summary of events
      • Birmingham Friends of the Earth Press Release
      • Council’s myth busting survey flawed
      • Visiting the Wholesale Markets at 5.15am, August 24th 2011
  • CENTRAL LIBRARY ARCHIVE
    • 1. Planning the new Central Library: 2001-2009
    • THE FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY GROUP: 2007
      • 1. Birmingham Council accused of “keeping people in the dark” over plans for a new Central Library
      • 2. Cabinet meeting on 22nd October 2007
      • 3. Escalating costs of the proposed new library
      • 4. Library plan ‘driven by commercial greed’
      • 5. An open letter to the Chairs of the Overview And Scrutiny Committees, The Stirrer, 8.10.07
      • 6. Cabinet meeting 22nd October 2007
      • 7. The option of retaining, renovating and extending Madin’s library building
    • THE FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY GROUP: 2008
      • 1: Rebuttal of incorrect media statements made by the City Council
      • 2. English Heritage Report
      • 3. Second submission to Culture Secretary Margaret Hodge
      • 4. BFOE: demolishing the Central Library would be a waste of energy
      • 5. Lucinda Lambton visits the Madin Library
      • THE FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY GROUP: 2009
        • 1. Scrutiny shortfall
        • 2. Better uses for the money
        • 3. Who benefits from prestige projects?
        • 4. The cost of renovating the Central Library
        • 5. The council owes a public apology to architect John Madin
        • 6. The author of the Pevsner city guide describes John Madin’s building as “a great work of architecture”
        • 7. Democracy in Birmingham: consultation – what consultation?
        • 8. The Mecanoo Birmingham library approved
        • THE FRIENDS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY GROUP – 2011
          • Friends of the Central Library – what next?
  • PAPERS AND REPORTS
    • ‘What it means to be Brummie’, Dr M. Mashuq Ally
    • Money spent on prestige projects at the expense of deprived areas: Alan Clawley
    • Riots carry a message the Government cannot ignore: Roshan Doug
    • The underlying socio-economic conditions in Birmingham: Post comment
    • The Virtuous Economy, Respect and an Approach to the Common Good: Michael Wilkes
    • What Makes a Brummie? Professor Carl Chinn
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORT
    • Safe Cycling Corridors for Birmingham
  • SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES – background information
    • Birmingham’s independent coffee shops
    • Founder of the Gun Quarter’s Ecocentre to set up recycling co-operative
    • Managing director of SME complains of council’s irregular tendering process
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