Girl sexually assaulted at Birmingham Cross City line station as police appeal to find key witness
British Transport Police are investigating the attack against a 15-year-old at Gravelly Hill Railway Station
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An appeal has been launched after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a Birmingham station on the Cross City line late at night.
Bennet Court is two detached office buildings, and an application was submitted for each of the buildings. Plot one will become 27 flats plot two will become 22 flats. The plans also include 76 car parking spaces and 25 cycle spaces for residents. Permitted development laws mean offices can be converted into housing without the need for planning permission if they meet certain prior approval criteria. RBC assessed the plans and agreed the proposals meet the criteria. The new Green Park Station, due to open sometime this year, will be around 25 minutes walk from the offices. Opposition to plan for six houses In other planning news, RBC has opposed plans to demolish workshops and build six houses in their place at The Piggery Gravel Hill, just over the border in south Oxfordshire near Caversham and Emmer Green.
A call to automatically shortlist veterans for West Midlands Combined Authority jobs has been made by a mayoral candidate. Labour candidate Liam Byrne MP has made the call as part of a plan to support former Armed Forces personnel and their families. The move would see veterans automatically shortlisted for posts at the combined authority – headed by the West Midlands mayor – if they apply. Also among the plans is an idea for a centre of excellence for the treatment of injuries, rehabilitation and sport at the new hospital planned for Arden Cross, Solihull involving Birmingham’s Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and the Commonwealth Games.
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A CAMPAIGN by a coffee shop in Henley to discourage the use of takeaway cups is having an effect.
Drifters in Duke Street is offering discounts to customers who use returnable ceramic mugs or agree to take a paper takeaway cup without a plastic lid to help reduce waste.
The café re-opened more than two weeks ago after being closed since January due to the coronavirus lockdown. Millie Jeans and her fiancée Talia Maguire, who run the business, say customers can use their own mug or be given one to return for cleaning and re-use.
Experienced pair to go head-to-head for county council seat );
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HENLEY’S representative on Oxfordshire County Council is hoping to retain the position for another four years.
Stefan Gawrysiak, who represents Henley Residents Group, is standing again in the local council elections on Thursday, May 6.
He will be up against Conservative candidate Paul Harrison, from Sonning Common, a former member of South Oxfordshire District Council.
Councillor Gawrysiak, who lives in Elizabeth Road, Henly, with his partner Catherine Notaras, is also a member of the district council and Henley Town Council and was Mayor of Henley in 2013/14.
He won the county council seat at the 2017 elections, defeating the incumbent David Nimmo Smith, a