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Out - West Midlands: Monday January 23, 2006 | | Empty
homes | | Boarded
up - empty homes can blight surrounding properties |
Across
the West Midlands, around 76,000 homes stand empty and unused.
Many of
these properties become a magnet for crime and anti-social behaviour 聳 and
drag down the value of neighbouring homes.
Yet, while these houses and
flats stand empty and neglected, thousands of people are struggling to take their
first step on the housing ladder.
Inside Out meets a first time buyer
who has become so frustrated with soaring house prices that she is considering
buying and renovating a derelict home.
We also head out on to the streets
of Birmingham with a new council team which has the task of reducing the number
of empty houses in the city.
But while the broken glass and boarded windows
may make these properties easy to find, tracking down the owners and forcing them
to act can prove a much harder task.
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| Senior
Singletons | | Lonely
hearts united - older people seek their love match |
Kay Sutherland
is fed up of feeling lonely.
The grandmother from Coventry has been on
her own for more than seven years - but now she wants to find a new companion.
And she is not alone.
An estimated 300,000 senior singletons live
in the West Midlands and many of them are seeking their love match.
There
are so many people over 60 looking for love that seven new specialist dating internet
agencies sprung up in the last year alone.
With all those potential partners
out there, can Kay find her perfect match in a world she still feels is obsessed
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for the content of external websites | Coffin
factory | | Newmans
- what future awaits the former factory? |
For more than 100
years, a family-run factory in the West Midlands produced some of the world聮s
finest fixtures and fittings for coffins.
Newman Brothers聮 聭furniture聮
featured at funerals throughout the 20th Century, including those of Queen Victoria,
Winston Churchill and Princess Diana.
But since the company closed in 1999,
its Birmingham base has stood untouched, the contents left to gather dust.
Inside
Out takes a tour around this intriguing factory and asks why more is not being
done to preserve what is a unique piece of Birmingham聮s manufacturing past.
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