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HIT AND RUN MAN HANDS HIMSELF IN TO POLICE > Pg 21

RETAIL SHOP TO CLOSE AFTER 30 YEARS OFFAST SERVICE > Pg 10

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Chess Game Of Life Birmingham City

Council have won the bid to host the annual chess championship this year, in which a potnetial prize of 75,000 couyld be won.> pg 12

WHAT’S ONOF

The Lottery Dream becomes True Three Friends from

Kitts Green have had there dream come true after winning it big in the national lottery this week.We interviewed them to see > pg 36

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The New Era of Gym Revoloution

The Birmingham Flare look at men and the lenghts to which they go to in an attempt to achieve the perfect body and the dangers of this new craze.> pg 32

It’s simply Poppy Love

The poppy has come to be recognised as a sym-bol of remembrance. We visit the Poppy factoruy to see how business is going in this economic climate.>pg 43

GOVERNMENT ERROR LEAVES THOUSANDS OF HOMEOWNERS IN THE MIDLANDS WITHOUT A HOME:PAGES 6-7

MILITARY SENDS OUT A DISTRESS CALL AS IT GOES AWOL

Is it too little too late:Two soldiers return back on duty on home soil after returning from Iraq

As we come into the season of remembrance we turn our focus to the fallen soldiers of the past, those who with pride stared into the face of adver-sity for the sake of crown and country; these heroes of the past should never be forgot-ten for the bravery which they have displayed but what about those unsung veterans who are still still serving in an illegal war.

Who will remember the soldiers who have sacrificed so much for their country? 77% of soldiers returning back from war, have been found to be sufferers of some form or the other of mental trauma. The city of Birmingham recently welcomed back the fifth regiment who returned back to the country last week and in a daring display of honor marched like soldiers in a salute to the comrades who they lost in the war.

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______________________By Jericho Du’bois

Soldiers parade in a heroic return to Birmingham

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Parade: Show Of Solidarity For Fallen Comrades

MILITARY SENDS OUT A DISTRESS CALL AS IT GOES AWOL_____________________________By Jericho Du’bois

Since the Labour days of the Blairite movement and the War which labour instigated, we have seen many families suffer as they are hit to the core, by the news that their son has tragically been killed in ac-tion, their son will never be able to walk again due to a roadside bombing, their son will never see again due to shrapnel embedded in the retina. So it comes as no surprise to find that so many of these young men who went away as boys have come back as battle scarred and traumatised men; men who can hardly sleep at night because of the recur-rent nightmares of war being replayed

in their mind seam-lessly; men who are now a danger to society as they strug-gle to control the thirst for war and for battle, leaving them in a place of unstable insecurity. Are we the civilian public safe with people like this walking amongst us? Are we going to be the next victim on the news of an un-hinged ex-soldier? Is enough being done for these men? What are we doing here in Birmingham for our soldiers?

Never forget, never forget, the famous words of the famous wordsmith of the 1920’s Albert Tre-nasphere. Recently we have seen a surge in the amount of soldiers returning back to our beloved

person to take a stance against this terror being inflicted upon us from within. how many more young lives must be lost befor we realise the tru extent of the injustice which is tak-ing place.Many of the soldiers who returned back with the Birmingham fifth regiment were under 25 years of age. As the company paraded for the pub-

lic, you could see in each of those young soldiers faces; the hardened spirit of war. many of them looked disciplined but emo-tionally drained. In Birminghgam the military have set up centres to rehabilitate soldiers returning back from the war one soldier said ‘Am quite pleased that we have these centres now, its helped me alot to cope with being back

in civilian soci-ety. The Birmingham military has stepped forward and made sure tha they never forget their soldiers and have therefore done evrything in their power to ensure that they look after their soldiers. Perhaps other miuliltary bases across the country should follow suit and take action so long as we are going to con-tinue fight in this war.

GANG BANGERS FOR LIFE and death

Money Man:A young youth caught up in the gangster lifestyle

Recent studies showed that the number of young black males joining gangs was on the rise as more is taken out of the communities leaving these youths with nothing more to do other than to wonder the streets and turn to a lif e of crime.In the past year there have been over 37 cases of gang related shootings and a host of robberys across the city as we see this next generation of gang bangers come up to take

the place of the previous with this generation being more heated and ruthless than there predeccessors. One youth said ‘I gotta make a living and this is what am good at, so I do it and make lots of money from it; you get me’. the important question is whay can be done about it here in Birmingham where we have some of the UK’s most notoriuos gangs confronting each other in bra-zened rivalry.

________________________________By Johan Swissburg

“I rise again to fight the cause of Britain”

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