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Monday, November 17, 2010

Has the X-Factor, but can they go far

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On Thursday the 29th of Octo-ber fame hit our local area when three young ladies showed the world their talents on X-Factor.

The girls who have called themselves “Amaziah” which means strength of God in Swahili astounded judge’s with their rendition of “all cried out” originally performed by the American Group Al-lure.

The group consist of Maleka(21) , Sherrel (22) and Stacy (22) who have

known each other from a young age and have all lived in the same high-rise flat in Ladywood.

All three attended the same primary and secondary school. Judges where in owe after hearing the three ladies well put together voices come together as one and where in disbelief when they were informed these three young ladies came from an inner city council estate.

The girls are the first group from a council estate background to ever make

such an amazing performance and im-pact on the judges and audience.

After hearing the girls first perform-ance the Judges had no doubts in bring-ing the girls through to the final as they believe there is so much potential in these girls and went as far to compare them to Destiny’s child.

When the ladies where asked why they chose to come on the show they replied “ we wanted to show the country that your background does not affect your

greatness or ability, there is potential in everyone it just about been given the opportunity to let your light shine.

The girls went further to say we love Ladywood and are proud to say we come from this area regardless of the views people may have about it.

The Girls also said they are glad for this opportunity to promote good public-ity for Ladywood as there has been times when that was coming from Ladywood was bad press.

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By Charlotte Charles Police have this week started an investi-

gation into a hit and run accident that oc-curred last week on a main road in Lady-wood.

The accident happened during mid-day on the St Vincent street, Miss Kirah harry was sent flying across the car by a dark blue Magan while trying to cross the road after leaving the local post office.

Police still do not know who the driver of the car was or why the individual was driv-ing at considerably dangerous speeds.

Miss Harry was lucky to be left with just a few minor injuries and a broken wrist. According to witness they where shocked to see that she was still alive after been knocked down a speed themselves.

Police believe that person involves in causing this accident could also be involved in another crime that occurred earlier in the day in which an elderly ladies house was robbed.

According to the woman the burglar d rove a blue Magan identical to that of the one that hit Miss harry. Miss harry is not the first person to be knocked down along the stretch of road.

Just last year an elderly man was also knocked over the on the same road when a car came racing around the corner of the road.

He unfortunately did not survive the ac-cident and since then locals have been petition for better safety on this road and

putting in speed bumps and more camera’s.

Police have now been put on duty around the area to patrol and look out for any cars that are going at dangerous speeds as well as encouraging road safety.

The council have now prom-ised to look into the safety of the road and adding level and speed cameras so that there will be less accidents happening.

Police have also asked that anyone who may have information please comefor-

ward as it could be vital in finding and bringing to justice the individual.

If you so not want to give information in person you can also ring : 0121 243 8765 and ask to speak to a memeber of the team .

Coffee Morning raises more then £500 On the 2nd november mothers from a local school joint forces to hold a coffee morning at St Johns school. It was the first coffe morn-ing ever heal at this school.The mother who have all experienced someone in thier family die frrom cancer decided to pull together and hold this event in aid of raising money for the cancer reaserch charity. the morning ran from 6am - 11am and everyone in the area and parents where encouraged to come along pay £1 for a cup of coffe and just have a pleas-ant time. By the time the event had finished £350 was raised and withing a few ours a annoynmous individual donated a £150 which brought the total to £500. Telephone Mrs R. Stweart on 0121 241 6875 for details on organising your own coffe morn-ing or if you would like to donate money to the charity .

Local Car Wash is shut downEasy Jet located on the edgbaston road in ladywaood was last week shut down perma-nently by the local council. This comes after 170 complaints where sent into the ladywood city council. According to Mr Jones a council worker who was investigating the car wash it was found they had been causing a lot of problems for the locals who lived on the road and also its customers. Aswell as disturbance towards locals thier are acusations that the workers of Easy Jet where removing invdi-viudals personal posseions from the car befor handing back the keys. According to one gen-tleman who asked he remain nameless said that after having his car washed and valeted by this company found his nav igator was missing aswelll as a spare pair of house keys and money he kept in the glove compartment. The owner and workers of Easy Jet car are to do be in court next week on charges of theft and disturbence of the peace.

First Lady MP for lady-wood in 25 yearsOn the 16th of Sepetember 2010 Miss Harry ladywood MP was introduced to birmingham offically along with all the other New MPs for the city. Miss Harry (28) aswell as been a lady MP is also the first one since 25 yrs ago when Mrs Grant was the local MP. When intervied Miss Harry stated she hasalot of bright and fr-esh idea for the community and hopes they will work and make an difference to the everyone life. We wish her on her new job and hope she will be a sucess.