Tag: Birmingham

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

  Cadbury dropped from royal warrants, apparently for still operating in Russia

  

  For the first time in 170 years, chocolate maker Cadbury has been dropped from the list of royal warrants. The Birmingham-based chocolatier was awarded its first royal warrant as a chocolate and cocoa manufacturer by Queen Victoria in 1854, but it lost its royal endorsement under King Charles.

• Friday, July 21st 2023 - 08:36 UTC

  Falklands/Brize Norton air bridge will fly to Birmingham two weeks in August

  

  BFSAI has been informed that due to unexpected repairs to the Brize Norton runway there will be changes to the South Atlantic Arbridge (SAA) to the Falkland Islands, between 14-28 Aug 2023.

• Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Work started on Royal Navy's next Type 26 frigate “Birmingham”

  

  Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Birmingham 2022 Queen's Baton Relay in the Falklands on June 7

  

  The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to take place from 28 July to 8 August will be preceded by the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay. An epic journey across the Commonwealth, with the Queen’s Baton visiting all 72 nations and territories, reaching Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and in the Americas, among others the Falkland Islands on 7 June 2022.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  A 106-year-old great granny “beats” coronavirus and anxious to see her family

  

  A 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be the oldest patient in Britain to beat the novel coronavirus, was discharged from hospital to applause from nurses and health workers.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  “Tories will also be the party of business”, Hammond tells Conservative conference

  

  Conservatives cannot afford to look like the party of “no change”, British Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned colleagues. Mr Hammond said the Tories could not “outspend” Jeremy Corbyn's Labour with “short-term gimmicks”. Instead he said they urgently needed to make the case for capitalism and “take our people with us”.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Royal Navy will have a Type 26 frigate named HMS Birmingham

  

  Speaking in Birmingham at the Conservative Party conference, the Defense Secretary outlined that one of Britain’s new cutting-edge Type 26 frigates will be called HMS Birmingham, becoming the fourth Royal Navy ship to bear that name.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:07 UTC

  Falklands at UK key party conferences, six months ahead of Brexit

  

  Falkland Islands Members of the Legislative Assembly Mark Pollard and Stacy Bragger are travelling to the UK to attend Labor and Conservative Party Conferences. This is a special year for British politics given the ongoing Brexit debate, and countdown to UK leaving the European Union on 29 March 2019.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 10:04 UTC

  Plot to oust PM May withers, but big challenge anticipated at Tory conference in Birmingham

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May seems to have overcome an internal escalation from her own Conservatives to have her removed, but her supporters are confident she is safe in the leadership, for now. Ms May is under pressure over the so-called Chequers proposal, which her opponents say binds the United Kingdom too tightly to European Union rules and regulations following Brexit.