Birmingham Post

For What It's Worth ; the Guide Figures Are the Only Real Link Between This Week's Price Band Neighbours. And a Guide Price Is Only a 'Guide' After All.

4, Newent Road Firmly within the protected patch of Birmingham's Bournville Village Trust, 4, Newent Road is an evolved, early 20th century house available with a guide price of pounds 545,000.

Hall You Could Ever Hope For

If you get a chance to read the book, you'll have to see the film. But without access to pounds 5.75 million or so, it will be the closest you come to realising the dream of owning Hopwell Hall. The compelling title of the marketing DVD for this magnificent Derbyshire estate is ' Britain's Best Home'.

Show Apartment Launched

Linfoot City Homes launches its new duplex show apartment at Rectory Place in central Worcester, tomorrow, Saturday Oct 1. The company's initial showpiece home, a new build penthouse, was swiftly reserved.

Two Meals for Price of One at Don Salvo ; Eating Out Offer

The Birmingham Post offers its readers another spectacular restaurant offer, with a 2-for-1 deal at Don Salvo. Don Salvo occupies an idyllic canal side setting that provides an authentic taste of Italy in the heart of the city.

Culture : Unsung Solomon Back On Display ; Birmingham Is Hosting the First Major Exhibition for Almost a Century of a Precocious Victorian Artist Whose Career Was Ended by Homosexual Scandal Terry Grimley Reports

The name of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) will be familar to anyone who has taken an interest in the Pre-Rapahelites, but until now it has not been easy to get an overall picture of his career. A member of the supporting cast around the second, Rossetti and Burne-Jones-dominated, phase of the movement, he is distanced from it by two characteristics which deeply affected his work: Jewishness and homosexuality.

Culture : Classical Review: Weller Pulls Out the Stops ; Cbso Symphony Hall

It is good to see Walter Weller, such a good friend to the orchestra in the past, back on the CBSO podium. This time he is standing-in as a late replacement for the indisposed announced conductor, which means we lose a Shostakovich symphony but gain a Dvorak treasure not often heard, the Symphony No 5.

Culture : Dvd Review: A Shot From Outlaw Country ; Waylon Jennings - Renegade Outlaw: The Authorised Biography / the Lost Concert (Prism Leisure) Pounds 12.99

As Buddy Holly's bass-guitarist, Waylon Jennings would have perished, along with his boss, in that fateful plane crash of February 1959, had he not given up his seat to the Big Bopper. Instead, Jennings survived to become one of country music's most respected renegades, until his death in 2002. Prism's excellent DVD delivers an illuminating 1990 documentary plus an incendiary live concert (from Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, in August 1978 and los...

Investors Savour Jupiter Scheme

Some 70 per cent of apartments at Redrow's Jupiter scheme in central Birmingham have been sold to investors. And it seems that 41 per cent of interviewed investor buyers still believe residential property will this year provide the best returns.

Culture: Kuno's a Fantasy Footballer ; Kuno Becker Is the Newcastle Signing Who Could Give David Beckham a Run for His Money in Looks, but His Footballing Skills Are Strictly for the Cameras. Alison Jones Met Him

There is a hoary old actorly rule about never acting with children or animals. Wise directors might add a cautionary note to anyone attempting to make a film about football. Past attempts to try and capture the excitement and adrenaline rush of the beautiful game have been as off target as a Beckham Euro 2004 penalty.

Archive

25 years ago Park and Ride bus services to the Motor Show were saved last night when West Midlands bus officials and union negotiators thrashed out an 11th hour deal. The deal, which will ensure that the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive retains the pounds 100,000 contract to run the services emerged at the end of a mammoth eight-hour negotiation.

Theme

Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is remembered too frequently for his bad temper! Apparently he had great spiritual struggles with his temperament. He was, as someone has said, no admirer of moderation whether in virtue or against evil. He was swift to anger, but also swift to feel remorse, even more severe on his own shortcomings than on those of others.

Anniversaries

They Said

Self-restraint, modesty and respect for elders have flown out of the window as TV, magazines, games and films promote moral and social anarchy Tory MP and agony aunt Ann Widdecombe

Post People: Birmingham City Golf Day

Birmingham City's Community Department ensured the annual Birmingham City golf day trophy stayed in house. Dean Holtham's team won the event - sponsored by Eminence Leisure - that was held at the Forest of Arden Golf Club.

A Classic Victorian Legacy

Given the slightest excuse, and a relatively uninspiring brief, Victorian designers could do wonders with the utilitarian. When Staffordshire needed a pumping station to provide clean water to an expanded population, the will - and the money were there to make it a good one.

Orion's Crowning Glory

It is being billed as the city's "most des res" - and with an estimated price tag of pounds 1.65 million, it will be Birmingham's most costly penthouse to date. There was a marketing launch this week, but big spenders will have to wait until next year before moving into the one-off, top notch property that is the crowning glory of The Orion Building.

The Pinnacle of Apartment Life

Apartments offering a private, residents' swimming pool have been selling well in Redditch. There is nothing left to buy at Pinnacle on the Evesham Road at Crabbs Cross where prices ranged around pounds 220,000.

Motoring : New Kia Tops for Caravan Judges

The best new vehicle for towing a caravan is a Kia Sorento, according to a panel of independent experts who subjected more than 40 vehicles to four days of rigorous testing. The 2.5-litre turbodiesel version of the Sorento emerged victorious in the Caravan Club Towcar of the Year 2006 awards ahead of rivals costing almost three times the price.

Motoring : Speeding Fines for Hire Cars at New High

Motoring : Avis Cashing in On Students

More than 377,000 students will be travelling to universities to start the autumn term during the beginning of October. To cash in on this business opportunity Avis is offering students and their parents a special 'Fly the Nest' discount, saving up to 30 per cent on renting estate cars and large and medium people- carriers, with prices from pounds 125.