Preston v Birmingham preview
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- Preston v Birmingham preview
- CapitalSouth exploring ’strategic alternatives’
- Birmingham-area residents and panelist sound off on economic crisis
- LPO/Jurowski at Symphony Hall Birmingham
- Southeast storms bring heavy rains damage school
Preston v Birmingham preview
SkySports
The Blues will be aiming to capitalise on any potential slip-up from leaders Wolves while Preston are out to secure themselves a psychological boost by re-entering the play-off places. Preston boss Alan Irvine is hoping striker Neil Mellor recovers from injury in time for his side’s home match. Mellor only managed 45 minutes of the Lilywhites’ 2-0 defeat at Cardiff last weekend before being replaced by Stephen Elliott following a recurrence of a hip injury first picked up in the recent home win against Bristol City. The former Liverpool forward subsequently missed the midweek 1-0 home win over Doncaster as Chris Brown and Elliott led North End’s attack.
CapitalSouth exploring ’strategic alternatives’
Bizjournals.com NC
The company announced Dec. 10 an engagement with Birmingham-based Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. stating that no decision have been made to participate in a transaction but it was “for the purpose of assessing strategic alternatives. ”CapitalSouth also announced that its initial stock offering for shareholders to purchase up to 7. 5 million shares at $2 per share closed Dec.
Birmingham-area residents and panelist sound off on economic crisis
The Birmingham News – al.com AL
WILLIAMSNews staff writerBirmingham-area residents and panelists at a town hallmeeting Thursday said average folks are suffering while fatcats on Wall Street are getting bailed out by Congress. During a nearly two-hour session at the Birmingham CivilRights Institute several panelists and citizens sharedtheir views on what caused an economic crisis many arecomparing to the Great Depression and what they feel mustbe done to help struggling homeowners and financiallystrapped citizens cope. The “Roadmap To Economic Recovery” meeting wasone of 30 sponsored this week across the country by theNational Reinvestment Community Coalition a WashingtonD. -based group that represents 600 community-basedorganizations.
LPO/Jurowski at Symphony Hall Birmingham
Times Online UK
The London Philharmonic’s showcasing of thesecond act of Tristan und Isolde in Birmingham and tomorrow inLondon is almost everything he didn’t want. This heavily bleeding chunk issung from the music-stand — and dawn and twilight become one brilliantly litday with house lights full up Christmas trees and surtitles twinkling. The orchestra far from being shrouded in the darkness of a pit is centrestage. Yet it is the LPO and their conductor Vladimir Jurowski who are theheroes of this concert performance through playing as passionate and as fullof Wagnerian presence as the composer could have hoped for. So steamy and sensual is the love music in the introductory fast-forward ofthe great Liebestod that you almost don’t mind when Robert Dean Smithstrides on stage sweeping his music-stand aside beaming at Isolde andsinging impressively enough from memory if also somewhat by rote.
Southeast storms bring heavy rains damage school
The Associated Press
(AP) — A night of unseasonably warm weather has generated torrential rains and tornadoes across the Southeast and some states are bracing for snow and sleet as temperatures drop Wednesday. Officials said classes are canceled after an apparent tornado ripped off part of the roof of an elementary school in Walker County Ala. northwest of Birmingham. Dozens of homes have been damaged in Alabama and Mississippi. Heavy rain has caused minor flooding in western Tennessee. Sleet is possible in areas of Louisiana and the National Weather Service issued a winter weather watch for parts of Mississippi warning that a rare snowfall accumulation was possible.
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