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Two greyhounds at Hall Green Stadium were destroyed earlier this month it has been revealed after sustaining injuries while racing.

It is believed that the cold weather at night was a factor that played a big part in injuring these dogs during a race, speculated General manager Stephen Rea.

“It’s a lot. We normally have three to four a year”, he commented. “We do everything we can to protect the animals, but unfortu-nately there are injuries”.

STADIUM FEELING NO PRESSURE

This revelation has been met by many more demonstrations outside the stadium on York Road, as campaigners from Greyhound Action International have called yet again for a complete stop on greyhound racing in Hall Green.

Gary Johnson, a regular betting man at Hall Green Stadium, has described the death of these dogs as ‘tragic’ and said that the owners are to blame. He also said, “Owners of the dogs come here to race. Greyhounds are fit for this purpose, therefore they have been given the go-ahead to race for many years now.

“If anyone can prevent their injuries,

it’s the owners. Let’s look at the wider picture - dogs don’t look unhappy on the track.

“We see them and they are ready for the competition. That’s what Grey-hounds are around to do.

“And as for our betting - does it af-fect them? No. They don’t know we’re betting, they’re dogs. They’re in it for the compeition, we’re in it for entertain-ment. But most importantly, the dogs enjoy it. It’s just unfortunate”.

Hall Green Stadium are set to release a statement regarding this issue soon. But it has been confirmed that despite

this news coming at a time when op-position groups are trying to put intense pressure on the stadium to stop racing, Hall Green Stadium will continue to run as normal on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights - as for selected special events.

As far as the local community is concerned, the deaths of these dogs has not had a great impact on the normal every day running of the area. As for Hall Green Stadium, they will hopefully to continue to be a great spectacle for nightly entertainment in Hall Green.

By KAZIM PARDHANChief Reporter

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‘Rising Stars’, a football team consist-ing of local youth from the Hall Green area, have made it to the finals of the Of-ficial Autumn Tournament at Goals, Star City, to play against their finalist rivals from Erdington.

They hope they can be the first team ever from Hall Green to win this All-Birmingham tournament.

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FINAL CHANCETeam from Hall Green through to finals at Goals

On Friday, students from Hall Green being part of the Islamic Society at their college, Cadbury, in Kings Nor-ton, raised £456.53 in a cake sale for the flood victims of Pakistan.

They took their trade to their college with views to raise as much as they can, and were successful.

Numan Qadir, head of the society, said “We worked as a team. There were no complaints. We did well”.

A football team of youths aged from 12 and 21 from Hall Green have advanced to the Finals at the first Autumn tournament at Goals Soccer Centre, Star City.

The tournaments, which are to

take place every season, has 16 teams from accross Birmingham competing for the Goals trophy - and local pride for their area.

It was set up as a scheme to help keep kids off the street, while at the same time giving them opportunities to express themselves in a fun and worthy way.

The team, consisting of seven players representing Hall Green, play matches every Friday against other teams from around Birmingham.

HALL GREEN SCHOOL ACHIEVE ‘BEST EVER’ GCSE RESULTS

Hall Green school are delighted to announce its ‘best erver’ examination results for the GCSE year 2010. 83% of students achieved an A* to C - that is 8% up from last years results and 7% up from its previous best.

Since 2007, the school have achieved inconsistent GCSE results. In 2007, the overall percentage was 68%. In 2008 this rose to 72%, but in 2009 it dropped to 70%.

The outstanding rise in positive results have largely been down to their new Positive Behaviour System, labelled ‘Ex-pectations for Learning’, which seems to have taken a great

effect on their GCSE results. The school are also hopeful that the boost of results will increase their popularity in the local area, rather than current year 6 students travelling to areas out of their local.

Connor Lewis, a year 11 student, told us how proud he was,

“It’s great. The school has really been helpful over these five years

“I got 2 A’s and 7 B’s!”

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The new Big John’s fast food outlet is still yet to announce a date for its opening.

Workers and local shoppers on the High Street in Kings Heath, where Big John’s is due to open were asked, but no one knows yet. However, word from the Selly Oak branch says it will open ‘very shortly’.

Big John’s, a popular fast food

outlet in Birmingham, which re-cently opened a branch in Leicester, is popular amongst the people of Brum, with branches in areas such as Shirley, Selly Oak, Acocks Green and other areas around the city.

The opening of this branch is one to look forward to - it would be a con-venient place to go to for the locals of Hall Green that live in the south of

the area.But it has also attracted regular

shoppers on the high street.“It’s much more convenient now”

sais Kings Heath Local Shoab Hanif.“Before I had to travel a long dis-

tant for it.“I might as well drop by now every

so often, so it’s very convenient.“Yes I’m a Big John’s fan!”

Manager: Sohail Shariff

The finalists pose for a team photo

BIG JOHN’S TO OPEN SOON IN KINGS HEATH - BUT LOCALS ASKING ‘WHEN’?

The annual car boot sale is taking place again this week in a bid to try and raise as much money as possible for our local charity Christian Aid.

Be sure to come down! Don’t miss on a great opportunity to bag some bargains.

For selling information, contact Pete at PeteGlover@gmail.com.

When: Saturday 23rd October, 1pm - 6pmWhere: Robin Hood School

Hall Green Car Boot Charity Sale!

Raising Money For Flood Victims

They came second in their group, winning 4 and drawing 2, and have advanced to the final to play a team from Erdington, due to take place next Friday at 8pm.

Rising Stars, as they are known, are managed and captained by So-hail Shariff, who set up the team in order to bring some price and success for him and his friends and team mates.

“We have achieved something great this tournament and to be mentioned is a great feeling. It feels like we’re real rising stars!

“And it adds nicely to the build up. We’re out to win!”

By KAZIM PARDHANChief Reporter

By KAZIM PARDHANChief Reporter

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