Six months of delays expected as work begins on Sprint bus route along A34 in Great Barr
Work will begin on April 19 to install new priority bus lanes, bus shelters and improve junctions along the A34 Walsall Road
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Beleaguered commuters can expect up to six months of delays as construction begins on a new priority bus route.
Jan 30, 2021
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A fallen tree blocks the road on Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, next to Compton Care
A clear-up operation was underway on Compton Road West, in the Compton area, on Saturday afternoon.
Photos from the scene show workmen working to clear the branches from the busy road, near to Compton Care.
A fallen tree blocks the road on Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, next to Compton Care
West Midlands Police were also in attendance to close the road.
⚠️Due to a police road closure at Compton Square, #Compton; @nxwestmidlands 10 is on a diversion in both directions.
Bake Off star films himself being racially abused on bus as he s called a bomber
Police are investigating after The Great British Bake Off star Ali Imdad was subjected to racial abuse on a bus in Birmingham as a woman complained about all these bombings and then dubbed him a bomber
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VIDEO: Great British Bake Off’s Ali Imdad racially abused on Birmingham bus
22 Dec 2020 A videograb shows the confrontation on the bus. In a bizarre incident, the “Great British Bake Off” contestant Ali Imdad was racially abused while travelling home by a bus in Birmingham on December 20.
The baker, who appeared on the fourth series of the cookery competition in 2013, was verbally abused while travelling on a bus in his hometown of Birmingham.
In the clip, a woman is heard telling Imdad that Asian people are “everywhere”, asking him: “What have you done to the country? All these bombings… people like you.”
A ranting woman accused an Asian Great British Bake Off contestant of all these bombings before the bus driver asked him to get off the bus miles from his stop.
Ali Imdad, 33, from Alum Rock, Birmingham, was travelling on the 94 National Express West Midlands service from the City Centre on Saturday 20 at 6.15pm.
The owner of patisserie, Cocoa by Ali, described how he was made to feel like a criminal when he claimed he was asked to get off the the bus by the driver.
Ali Imdad, 33, from Alum Rock, Birmingham, was travelling on the 94 National Express West Midlands service from the City Centre on Saturday 20 at 6.15pm