BIRMINGHAM 25P JOURNAL THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009 WWW.BIRMINGHAMJOURNAL.CO.UK Gunningham Is Birmingham Becoming A Gun Town? EXCLUSIVE By Andrew Masih Will youth gang culture take over the peace of our ciy? According to government statis- tics Birmingham has now in 2009 become Britians gun capital. It is estimated that in a week over 200 murders take place in Birmingham involving gruesome fire arms. 1/10 murders are committed by the use of automatic weapons. It is a fear that sooner than we expect Birmingham will become an uncontrollable city. Recent study shows that most gun crimes are caused by youths from ages 16 +, youth gang culture adopts youths and creates them into criminals. In 2007 gun crime rates where amazingly falling but in the past 1 ½ a year gun crime has risen. Birmingham City Council along side with West Midlands Police Service are working together with local communities to try and change Birmingham as a whole. They will be mainly targeting youths on streets and college’s. Birmingham City Council and Police representatives say in less than 2 years they aim to change Birmingham completely. Will that be too late? Police found both garages full of automatic weapons in September Raza Hamza European Champion Stands After Winning GB Gold Medalist From Handsworth to European Champion Full Story: Page 2 BIRMINGHAMS EXCLUSIVE NEWS DELIVERED TO YOU BY BRIMINGHAM JOURNAL Specialists In Asian Jewellery .....Weddings & Parties Diamond,Gold,Silver WE HAVE IT ALL WE HAVE WHAT YOU REQUIRE, WE CREATE WHAT YOU DESIRE 9 Corparation St, Birmingham 527 Bearwood Rd, Bearwood 117 High St, Bromsgrove Sheldon Shopping Center AMS&SONS SPECIALISTINASIAN JEWELLERY TURN TO PAGE 4 “BIG BAD BRUM” EXCLUSIVE NEWS FOR EXCLUSIVE PEOPLE
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BIRMINGHAM
25P
J O U R N A L THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009 WWW.BIRMINGHAMJOURNAL.CO.UK
G u n n i n g h a m Is Birmingham Becoming A Gun Town?
EXCLUSIVEBy Andrew Masih
Will youth gang culture take over the peace of our ciy? According to government statis-tics Birmingham has now in 2009 become Britians gun capital. It is estimated that in a week over 200 murders take place in Birmingham involving gruesome fire arms. 1/10 murders are committed by the use of automatic weapons. It is a fear that sooner than we expect Birmingham will become an uncontrollable city. Recent study shows that most gun crimes are caused by youths from ages 16 +, youth gang culture adopts youths and creates them into criminals. In 2007 gun crime rates where amazingly falling but in the past 1 ½ a year gun crime has risen. Birmingham City Council along side with West Midlands Police Service are working together with local communities to try and change Birmingham as a whole. They will be mainly targeting youths on streets and college’s. Birmingham City Council and Police representatives say in less than 2 years they aim to change Birmingham completely. Will that be too late?
Police found both garages full of automatic weapons in SeptemberRaza Hamza European Champion Stands After Winning
GB Gold Medalist From Handsworth to European Champion Full Story: Page 2
BIRMINGHAMS EXCLUSIVE NEWS DELIVERED TO YOU BY BRIMINGHAM JOURNAL
Specialists In Asian Jewellery.....Weddings & Parties Diamond,Gold,Silver WE HAVE IT ALL
WE HAVE WHAT YOU REQUIRE, WE CREATE WHAT YOU DESIRE
9 Corparation St, Birmingham 527 Bearwood Rd, Bearwood 117 High St, Bromsgrove Sheldon Shopping Center A M S & S O N S SPECIALIST IN ASIAN JEWELLERY
TURN TO PAGE 4
“BIG BAD BRUM”
EXCLUSIVE NEWS FOR EXCLUSIVE PEOPLE
Local Shooting on SANDWELL ROAD
Local news: Local lads get shot by local thugs 2
5 young males were run out of the alley-way by 3 males with a gun. Sandwell Rd, Handsworth
On October 5th 2009 5 young men realised how dangerous their area has become. In the area of Hands-worth at 10:00pm 5 young men were shot at by 3 youths dressed in black. Reason for this is not yet known. It was re-ported by a neighbour who witnessed this happening. The caller told Police to arrive immediately
to the scene. The police arrived shortly after the call was made but found that nobody was in-jured. The boys involved
haven’t been found for Questioning by the police and police say “This is a serious matter which must be resolved.” the hope for safer streets goes on.
local alleyway in Handsworth where shooting happened
Birmingham Cape Hill Asda threatsAsda recieves threat from local councilBy Andrew Masih
Asda received threats from Birmingham City Council about rats being spotted in the toilets and in aisles of the Supermarket. Asda have no reply to theAllegation which are being made but Birmingham City Council representative say they are still investigating the hygiene of the infested store and nothing can be said for sure until reports come through. Customer complaints are believed to be piling up on the manager’s desk and Asda this week have lost out on atleast 1000 of the daily sales due to these rats. further study shows that this Asda was built on top of a old sewage compound and this could be the result of all the rats infest-ing the store.
Asda Birmingham Cape Hill
In a local area in Birmingham at local home 3 heroic builders Jack Mills, Dean Davis and Billy Dean saved a family of 5 from a hor-rific fire.
The builders working in the next door house heard a big explosion and saw smoke coming from the house, then no-ticing that people were inside; they decided to help and rescued the family from the home. Unfortunately the builders could not save the life of the youngest member of the family who died in the
explosion. The family came out alive but received a lot of burns to the arms and face. After rescuing the family one of the build-ers did collapse due to the smoke being inhaled and causing him to col-lapse. He is being treated in Birmingham City
Hospital.
The fire was caused apparently by leaking gas coming from a hole in the pipe and the child playing with matches. The builders will all receive an award from Birmingham City Coun-cil for their bravery. The family thank the build-ers for their help.
LIFE SAVING BUILD-ERS TO THE RESCUEBUILDERS SAVE FAMILY FROM HORRIFIC FIREBy Andrew Masih
GB Gold Medalist From Handsworth to European Champion by Andrew Masih
Birmingham’s...Finest young boxer Raza Phan-tom Hamza age 17 wins gold medal in Poland rep-resenting Great Britain. Now labelled European champion carries 3 titles. Originally from Aston and know living in Handsworth Raza Hamza battled 3 great fighters one of which was a world Champion. Winning he said “was the greatest thing he could have done to make his country and family proud”. It is said that Raza Ham-za’s dream of becoming Professional is yet to come for he wants to have enough experience to become the best. He will be back the ring in december for a shot at the British title under 19s.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RAZA HAMZA PAGE 60
UK BOATER’S GET ATTACKEDBY PIRATES UK travellers out at sea in the west region of Somalia, yesterday found themselves surrounded by 2 small speed boats both containing men with as-sault rifles. 3 male travellers were beaten whilst 2 woman were gang raped by what is believed to be 7 males, all belongings were taking including £2,000 which was kept in the boat for emer-gency. Police stated that this boat of UK travellers was warned about being in this part of the sea just 2 hours before they set off into the ocean. The travellers remain in police custardy until they are safely on a plane back home. The President Of Somalia personally apologised to the British Travellers. By Andrew Masih
