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Bournville Arts Profile: Chris Baker

The third in our series of profiles of former students of Bournville’s Art School introduces Christopher Baker, also famous under the pseudonym Fangorn, a successful artist and illustrator established in both the film and publishing industries.

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Bournville Village Festival 2012 – The Performers

A few weeks ago Bournville Village Council finally announced the Arena line-up of this year’s Bournville Festival.  In case you want to know a little bit more about these performances here is the list containing descriptions of everyone who are showing this year.

News from the Birmingham Mail:

• Your Charities: Kings Heath charity appeals for donations

  OVER the last few months there has been a decline in donations to charity shops, according to reports.

• Second memorial football match for Bournville police officer

  THE family and friends of a police officer who died from an undiagnosed heart defect are hosting another charity football match in his memory.

• Row over future of Stirchley Baths

  A BIRMINGHAM MP has accused the City Council of ‘indecent haste’ in pushing through plans for the £4 million conversion of a former swimming pool into offices and a community centre.

• Your News: Funding boost for Bournville Model Railway Club

  BOURNVILLE Model Railway Club has designed and built a replica Bournville Engine Shed and Thomas the Tank Engine railway layout to add to its model railway exhibition.

• Hospital hopes to raise cash for sick kids, thanks to bag competition

  LITTLE Olivia Nordstrum may only be six years old but she is already proving her fashion know-how after winning a competition to design a bag in aid of poorly Birmingham children.

• Your Events: Go back in time in Bournville

  GO along to Rowheath Pavilion on May 4 for A Night in the 1940s, in aid of Help for Heroes and Rowheath Pavilion in Bournville.

• Bournville village green is lit up by new heritage street lamps

  PEOPLE can see one of Birmingham’s most beautiful village greens more clearly at night now after nine new street lamps were switched on.

• Mike Skinner laid bare in The Story Of The Streets autobiography

  BIRMINGHAM rapper Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, has made a handsome living out of telling brutally honest stories in his songs.

• Mike Skinner laid bare in The Story Of The Streets autobiography

  BIRMINGHAM rapper Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, has made a handsome living out of telling brutally honest stories in his songs.

• Birmingham high streets bidding for Mary Portas funding scheme

  EIGHT Birmingham shopping centres are turning to Mary Queen of Shops to help turn round their fortunes.