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Status :@alsthom true though.
Created at : 02/01/12 9:09 AM

Status :Just found this film of Dick Gaughan in 1983. Have rarely ever seen anything so simultaneously hilarious and beautiful http://t.co/s5HKqtyE
Created at : 01/31/12 2:21 PM

Status :Good piece on the transformational potential of elected Mayors in our big cities by @kevinpmeagher http://t.co/fHKC4kf4
Created at : 01/31/12 8:36 AM

Status :It was icy on the towpath walking into the city centre this morning.
Created at : 01/31/12 6:24 AM

Status :@EvaPhillips that was a clever response. and good to see you too. see you again as discussed.
Created at : 01/29/12 12:36 PM

Status :Brilliantly funny & clever response to toast to the lassies by @EvaPhillips at Brandwood Burns supper last night. Should have her own show
Created at : 01/29/12 3:28 AM

Status :@jim49990 I will be if we have one. What you up to?
Created at : 01/28/12 6:18 PM

Status :@mcgregormt @tom_watson thank god, we didn't equalise, so no.
Created at : 01/28/12 11:01 AM

Status :@sandwellleader got @tom_watson with me today - give us a wave.
Created at : 01/28/12 9:57 AM

Status :@jim49990 Hi Jimmy. Great to hear from you. I still mention you in schooldays stories. You still in brum?
Created at : 01/28/12 6:02 AM

Status :Brummies should read this http://t.co/RtOZkuBX
Created at : 01/28/12 4:51 AM

Status :Another interesting piece on the slowing down of the Chinese economy http://t.co/lzhLCOjR
Created at : 01/28/12 3:29 AM

Status :RT @RichardBurdenMP Excellent discussion at Northfield CLP tonight on pros & cons of having #BrumElectedMayor. Discussion led by @sionsimon
Created at : 01/27/12 5:53 PM

Status :@thevicarswife Bit too early to say for sure, but maybe.
Created at : 01/27/12 12:14 PM

Status :@thevicarswife Immediately, no. Next year, if all goes to plan, then yes. £390 cash for parking in wrong space is terrible.
Created at : 01/27/12 12:11 PM

Status :@tweetcraftspace Thanks Deirdre. I have actually seen you very recently, but I can't remember where. Ring any bells?
Created at : 01/27/12 12:08 PM

Status :@r_ratclif hi rebecca. sorry haven't seen email. dm me your email address and im sure we can sort something out.
Created at : 01/27/12 8:21 AM

Status :Steve Richards: Elected mayors are a great way to return power to the people http://t.co/fdOAGrD7
Created at : 01/26/12 3:44 AM

Status :Elected Mayors are a great way to return power to the people, says Steve Richards...
Created at : 01/26/12 2:23 AM

Status :@pritchardkate @politicalhackuk thanks both. Maybe you should email midlands today... ;)
Created at : 01/25/12 5:17 PM

Status :@pritchardkate @politicalhackuk 90 secs not long, partic when the main focus of qs is why people who email midlands today are anti-mayor.
Created at : 01/25/12 5:12 PM

Status :@weavermiles yes.
Created at : 01/23/12 11:06 AM

Status :Just noticed the greatest was 70 last week. Nice pics http://t.co/mw7RlXQr
Created at : 01/21/12 6:53 AM

Status :There are two stories here... http://t.co/GGRxVoWQ
Created at : 01/20/12 4:52 PM

Status :@bonobains nice to see you too surrinder. catch up soon, like you say.
Created at : 01/19/12 12:42 PM

Status :Worth remembering private sector trade unionists are coming under pension pressure too http://t.co/C5ScUesc
Created at : 01/18/12 11:47 AM

Status :@TJHKeeley pleasure
Created at : 01/17/12 5:28 AM

Status :@TJHKeeley and my essay on what Mayors can achieve published in "Where Next for Labour" over the summer is here: http://t.co/fITFhd1e
Created at : 01/17/12 4:38 AM

Status :@TJHKeeley there is a fair summary here http://t.co/urFLdIVk. I will be publishing the full 20 page document shortly.
Created at : 01/17/12 4:37 AM

Status :@TJHKeeley how have you come to that conclusion?
Created at : 01/17/12 4:01 AM

Status :@jonhickman celebrity villa fan? Looks like it. http://t.co/kx9Y7U5N
Created at : 01/15/12 4:51 PM

Status :@ljrm1 @waseemzaffar @astonvilla_view hardly surprising is it? our whole team cost less than bent.
Created at : 01/15/12 4:49 PM

Status :@gypsyteacher1 O'bama. Very good. ;)
Created at : 01/15/12 4:44 PM

Status :@astonvilla_view @ljrm1 quite so, no danger really. but still shocks me to see a team that expensive in the bottom half.
Created at : 01/15/12 4:42 PM

Status :@astonvilla_view @ljrm1 be the most influential club in the championship the way you're going.
Created at : 01/15/12 4:32 PM

Status :@AILAHT0909 via Weoley Castle, I'll bet.
Created at : 01/15/12 10:27 AM

Status :@simonjgray dread to think.
Created at : 01/15/12 10:26 AM

Status :@bounder @jonhickman has that been verified, that kim jong un is albion? or, er, not?
Created at : 01/15/12 10:26 AM

Status :@jonhickman i think it safe to say he is no baggie.
Created at : 01/15/12 10:25 AM

Status :So it seems that Mitt Romney's grandad was from Aston. Next we'll learn that Obama's was from Weoley Castle. http://t.co/7IgmSWpN
Created at : 01/15/12 9:54 AM

Status :@jassansi Hey, great work by you. Very many thanks. Catch up you soon.
Created at : 01/15/12 6:10 AM

Status :@jassansi hey, great work by you. Very
Created at : 01/15/12 6:09 AM

Status :@nickbigcat thanks nick. everybody seemed to think it went well. and, yes, see you in the week.
Created at : 01/15/12 5:36 AM

Status :@raihennefer well spotted. i'm always in the halfords, though @edballlsmp, as a norwich city fan, is generally not.
Created at : 01/15/12 5:35 AM

Status :@sandwellleader @spellar @edballsmp @tom_watson wasn't a bad game, either. just a bad result. seems @edballsmp keeps his 100% away record.
Created at : 01/15/12 5:33 AM

Status :@helgahenry thank you. and it's not me that is not smiley, btw, it's the photos (which i don't take, of course). :)
Created at : 01/15/12 5:32 AM

Status :@JohnSlinger @Jonathan_Todd @edballsmp thanks for coming, john. glad you enjoyed. by no means in doldrums, as you say.
Created at : 01/15/12 5:30 AM

Status :Big thanks to @edballsmp, @tom_watson and @sandwellleader for today. Really well received events, largely thanks to you.
Created at : 01/14/12 3:06 PM

Status :. @edballsmp commiserates with a young Baggie http://t.co/uYOw7zeR
Created at : 01/14/12 11:40 AM

Status :RT @SteveFreshwater Look fwd hearing @edballsmp growth strategy at Birmingham lunch on Sat hosted by @sionsimon @tom_watson & Khalid Mahmood
Created at : 01/13/12 5:51 AM

Status :@bonobains very interesting indeed. Many thanks.
Created at : 01/12/12 1:23 PM

Status :@nicktheowl thanks, nick. i really enjoyed chatting too. i think we clearly agree: there is a massive amount we can do.
Created at : 01/10/12 11:28 AM

Status :Great that the govt is going to stick with HS2, but we need its benefits more quickly. It doesn't need to take anything like 15 years.
Created at : 01/09/12 5:31 AM

Status :Really nice very short piece on Birmingham in the Indy http://t.co/OeAvOqqH
Created at : 01/09/12 2:58 AM

Status :@MilkyDY1 @wbafcofficial I don't think they're allowed to go under £15 in the FA cup.
Created at : 01/08/12 4:43 PM

Status :@paulmdale nothing unites a region - or anything - like success.
Created at : 01/08/12 3:49 PM

Status :@paulmdale failed brum govt makes it seem that way, but is actualky itself the real cause and the real tragedy. Successful brum is the key.
Created at : 01/08/12 2:13 PM

Status :@brumknightmare @paulmdale We don't need a regional mayor. Birmingham needs proper leadership. A more successful Brum = good 4 whole region.
Created at : 01/08/12 2:07 PM

Status :@sandwellleader @tom_watson @edballsmp very happy. #coyb #wba
Created at : 01/08/12 12:00 PM

Status :@jnewt14 yup. for sure. and thx for the link.
Created at : 01/08/12 11:34 AM

Status :I have no link to share but when listening to Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding an hour ago, I wished that I did. GP is hard to explain.
Created at : 01/08/12 10:34 AM

Status :Just noticed this admirable use, by the admirable @stevenreid12, of the excellent phrase "big-time Charlies" http://t.co/WwAv3yYG #wba
Created at : 01/08/12 8:20 AM

Status :@brumknightmare @paulmdale it's about grabbing power from London, not from the Black Country or Cov. We stand or fail together as a region.
Created at : 01/08/12 7:44 AM

Status :@SkyBlueStacey been there for much of last 30 yrs, stace. 10 year project to beat the cycle is finally coming good. #wba
Created at : 01/07/12 11:44 AM

Status :nice to win, for once, for the uncomplicated reason of being an obviously better team with obviously better, more expensive, players. #wba
Created at : 01/07/12 11:40 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston exactly.
Created at : 01/07/12 7:57 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston Bang on. Draw is a disaster, and therefore quite likely. Wembley be great and all that, but cup is basically a distraction.
Created at : 01/07/12 7:44 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston anyway, enough of these nasty race rows, i'm off to the football (ironic sad joke).
Created at : 01/07/12 7:06 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston you are unlikely to find me getting very excited about very much than any mp says. It was a stupid comment.
Created at : 01/07/12 6:22 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston AGAIN (third time): why?
Created at : 01/07/12 6:11 AM

Status :@Peterkynaston I told you what I think. It was a stupid thing to say. And i ask you AGAIN: why?
Created at : 01/07/12 5:36 AM

Status :@B12Simon gets better and better
Created at : 01/06/12 5:25 PM

Status :@AASaif certainly :)
Created at : 01/06/12 5:25 PM

Status :@Peterkynaston i was joking, not squirming. i have no interested in her, but it was a stupid thing to say. why?
Created at : 01/06/12 5:19 PM

Status :Brum 19th top place in world to visit in 2012, according to NY Times. For the food, apparently. http://t.co/4C5aaTiS (via @ChrisWorsey)
Created at : 01/06/12 4:35 PM

Status :@Peterkynaston So yesterday, surely? Today on Twitter it's Miliband day.
Created at : 01/06/12 4:29 PM

Status :@MDFOXY Hi michael. Honest answer is probably not, but I will take a look at it (have had a quick look, but will more deeply).
Created at : 01/06/12 2:26 PM

Status :I see that Guardian's story saying govt will back HS2 has been deleted. Let's hope govt's resolve greater than Gdn's http://t.co/qaQJdmG2
Created at : 01/06/12 1:36 PM

Status :@Jonathan_Todd @phillyluke @michael_nutter true of all jobs, I reckon. :)
Created at : 01/06/12 12:35 PM

Status :@lizlangtonjames @gabysslave You certainly were. Disappointingly childish stuff from them, on what should be a serious debate.
Created at : 01/05/12 3:38 AM

Status :@politicalhackuk The truth is about freeing Birmingham from control by London. Taking back control of our own city after too long.
Created at : 01/05/12 3:37 AM

Status :@boychana @politicsinbrum happy to meet any time. dm me and i'll send you a contact to fix up mtg by email.
Created at : 01/04/12 10:53 AM

Status :Getting a phone back after 36 hours w/out always feels like such an achievement. Props & thx to @GeekSquad, who were unexpectedly brilliant.
Created at : 01/04/12 8:41 AM

Status :@rhysmogs there's been a massive rise in homelessness and rough sleeping in birmingham since the change in government. it's not all the same
Created at : 01/04/12 8:08 AM

Status :One of the many reasons why the growing problem of rough sleeping in Birmingham needs to be tackled http://t.co/dxtedmrc
Created at : 01/04/12 5:55 AM

Status :@PauletteHamilto Thanks Paulette. What a warm start to your twitter life. I have separately tweeted you welcome. :)
Created at : 01/04/12 4:16 AM

Status :Please welcome Labour Councillor @PauletteHamilto to Twitter. An exemplary community leader in Birmingham's Handsworth Wood ward.
Created at : 01/04/12 3:47 AM

Status :Meant to say earlier: congratulations to Doug Ellis on his Knighthood. Truly, the man is an impressive institution.
Created at : 01/02/12 7:07 PM

Status :@Peterkynaston agree with all that. 14th now w mulumbu, olsson, long and brunt doubtful for tomorrow. is more like what we're used to.
Created at : 01/02/12 7:02 PM

Status :@Peterkynaston yup. pathetic. tho not the worst we've been this season.
Created at : 01/01/12 2:46 PM

Status :having done well the last 2 games, today we played badly and lost. those who are so shocked, where have you been for the last 30 years? #wba
Created at : 01/01/12 2:06 PM

Status :It's thirty three years to the day since the greatest game of football ever http://t.co/qS2YNarM #wba #mufc
Created at : 12/30/11 8:55 AM