• 11 months ago
A rock fan who beat a fellow concert-goer unconscious has been spared jail. Andrew Ridley pleaded guilty to attacking Mark Stevens following a row over the glare from his bald head spoiling his view of the band at a gig at the O2 academy.

Birmingham City Council is planning to cut its anti-knife crime budget despite another teenager being stabbed to death recently by Victoria Square. A petition has now been launched to stop the cuts by the Save Birmingham Youth Service campaign.

Controversial plans to knock down the Ringway Centre are set to be looked at again by the City Council following a bid to save it from demolition. The authority's planning committee voted to bulldoze the brutalist building and replace it with three huge apartment blocks
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00:00 Now, your latest news update for Birmingham. A rock fan who beat a fellow concertgoer unconscious
00:07 has been spared jail. Andrew Ridley pleaded guilty to attacking Mark Stevens, following
00:13 a row over the glare from his bald head, spawning his view of the band at a gig at the O2 Academy.
00:21 Birmingham City Council is planning to cut its anti-knife crime budget despite another
00:25 teenager being stabbed to death recently by Victoria Square. A petition has now been launched
00:32 to stop the cuts by Save Birmingham Youth Service campaign.
00:37 Controversial plans to knock down the Ringway Centre are set to be looked at again by the
00:42 City Council following a bid to save it from demolition. The authorities planning committee
00:48 voted to bulldoze the brutalist building and replace it with three huge apartment blocks.
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