12 SATURDAY December 30 1995 LET’S DO I lIMffcU Celebrating an annus honorabilis for HM Press The year has ended quite well for those who seek to prevent the newspaper industry from being gagged even further And ironically that is down to newspapers’ two old foes the Royal Famil

1 Irish Government airport operator Aer Rianta is picked as the main investor in Birmingham International Airport when it is privatised Aer Rianta will take a 40 per cent stake in the airport valued at more than £130 million when negotiations are complete with possibly five per

act GARDENING Make sure your tools are primed for spring advises Roger Clarke Christmas and New Year gives the gardener a few days off at a time when the demands of the soil are not too pressing Unless the weather improves dramatically you will need an oil drilling rig and explo

His persecuted followers dropped anchor and nigh on 150 years later the place now within the US state of Utah extends its hand of hospitality Salt Lake City best known as home to the Mormon Church less so as host to the 2002 Winter Olympics was for me like the religion a mystery

the crowds and the flags and the massed celebration It is an enduring image of 1995 a scene which might be mistaken for an outburst of crass national chauvinism In reality the mood of the occasion was very different The flags were waved not in triumphalism but in a salute of gra

Stephen Harrison reports MIDLAND DIGEST Victims tell of moments of horror Victims of the supermarket knifeman last night spoke from their hospital beds of the moments they were attacked Father-of-four Dennis Cooksey aged 57 from Castle Vale Birmingham was stabbed in the left sho

of the picture Buyers queue to save Reliant From The Post Tuesday December 26 Midland millionaires are relying on their entrepreneurial skills to protect their fortunes as they reject the potential pit-falls of the Stock Market Many of the richest people in the region are determ

we're just waiting for your bed! (Feb 6) Don’t you think you have had enough sir? (Aug 22) Seeing the funny side the headlines as interpreted by the Birmingham Post’s Gemini in 1995 I get this huge increase in salary and everyone else gets a miserly three per cent and I feel no

of the existence of the Cevennes let alone their attraction Most of the area is a plateau cleft by deep gorges the best known of which are the Tam Gorges Among the other gorges are the Canyon de la Dourbie and the Gorge de la Jonte Perched quite literally above the Canyon de la

of 54-year-old Emma Nicholson to quit the Conservative Party for the Liberal Democrats is a shattering blow for the Government The centre-left MP who joined Parliament in the 1987 General Election has left at a critical moment for the Tories Poised on the brink of a comeback aft