A company director has been spared jail after a labourer was crushed to death. A court heard Simon Briggs had decided to put "cost cutting at the expense of safety". He was sentenced to 23 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months and ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work.
A prolific shop thief who targeted supermarkets across the West Midlands more than 500 times has been jailed. Samad Ali is believed to have taken over £18,000 worth of items in just over six months.
A brewery in Dudley has been crowned CAMRA's Champion Winter Beer of Britain for 2024. Snowflake - an amber barley wine from Sedgley's Sarah Hughes Brewery won the prestigious title after over a year of local blind-tasting panels and vigorous regional heats.
A prolific shop thief who targeted supermarkets across the West Midlands more than 500 times has been jailed. Samad Ali is believed to have taken over £18,000 worth of items in just over six months.
A brewery in Dudley has been crowned CAMRA's Champion Winter Beer of Britain for 2024. Snowflake - an amber barley wine from Sedgley's Sarah Hughes Brewery won the prestigious title after over a year of local blind-tasting panels and vigorous regional heats.
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00:00 Now, your latest news update for Birmingham. A company director has been spared jail after
00:06 a labourer was crushed to death. A court heard Simon Briggs had decided to put cost cutting
00:11 at the expense of safety. He was sentenced to 23 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months
00:17 and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.
00:22 A prolific shop thief who targeted supermarkets across the West Midlands more than 500 times
00:28 has been jailed. Samad Ali is believed to have taken over £18,000 worth of items in
00:34 just over six months.
00:37 A brewery in Dudley has been crowned Cameron's Champion Winter Beer of Britain for 2024.
00:43 Snowflake, an amber barley wine from centralist Sarah Hughes Brewery, won the prestigious
00:47 title after over a year of local blind tasting panels and vigorous regional heats.
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