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Holocaust survivor meets Walsall students

Susi Bechhofer with a book on her life story. TS7019-1982WA</B>

Thursday, January 28, 2010

A HOLOCAUST survivor visited a Walsall school as part of a week of events marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Susi Bechhofer, who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom in 1939, visited...

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Parents' anger over school place fiasco

Thursday, October 22, 2009

FURIOUS parents have reacted with anger at a decision to amend the admissions policy at a Walsall Wood secondary school just five days before the...

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Lyrics have a positive take on life

Songwriters Mithun Soul from Great Barr, Bradley Bates from Willenhall with Garry Leahy and Gurdeep Kainth, both from Birmingham, watched a special performance of Life is a Game, a musical they co-wrote, at the CBSO Centre this month. AcornsMusical-WA

Thursday, October 22, 2009

TALENTED songwriters from a Walsall hospice attended a special performance by secondary school pupils of a rock musical charting their fight against a...

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Town's teens have made the grade

Star turn: Imogen Brooke (left) from Lichfield Road in Rushall achieved four As at A-level and hopes to start a career in musical theatre with a scholarship at a top drama school. Imogen Brooke-A-levels-WA

Thursday, August 27, 2009

IMPROVING A-level results have continued in Walsall this year with 94 per cent of students achieving two or more passes and the majority gaining three...

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College prepares to open the doors to 'world class' campus

The main foyer inside the Wisemore campus. Right, Director of Estates, Deb Rajania with principal and chief executive of Walsall College, Amarjit Basi.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

THE keys to Walsall College's new £64 million campus have been handed over ahead of taking on its first students in September. Chief executive of...

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Centre for deaf marks 15 years of student support

Students and staff celebrated 15 years of the Deaf Base at Walsall College this week. TS6382-5766WA

Thursday, June 11, 2009

AN award-winning centre for deaf and deaf-blind learners has celebrated a special anniversary this week. Walsall College's Deaf Base marked its 15th...

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Little celebrity Connie set to lead massive walk to school

LConnie Talbot will lead the Walk to School Week in the Walsall borough.

Monday, May 18, 2009

A CELEBRITY Walsall schoolgirl will join 20,000 youngsters from across the borough to help boost the numbers of children walking to school. Britain's...

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Parents' anger as academy bid gets go-ahead

Thursday, April 30, 2009

ANGRY parents and pupils will demand answers tonight (Thursday) after Walsall Council controversially agreed to make their school the first engineerin...

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Hard-hitting way to drive home safety message

Students get a de-briefing. JS1424-0017WA

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The shocking consequences of drinking and driving were made graphically clear to Walsall students when firefighters mocked up a crash scene. Students...

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Head teacher suspended

Streetly School head teacher Debbie Hunton. PH120906-0001WA

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Parents have been left baffled by the news that the head teacher of a Streetly school has been suspended. The announcement that Debbie Hunton, head of...

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