Marsh Baxter News Today

good morning. iam good morning. i am out of the very front and to get this prized position you had to be here two days ago, at a 7am on saturday morning. it wont be long before this lot are inside. that is wherejohn and carol r. yes, good morning. the big news on day one of these wimbledon championships is the withdrawal of nick kyrgios. the beaten finalist last year and the amount�*s singles is out because of a wrist injury after what has been an injury ravaged season. and will it s...

controversial end to the second ashes series. welcome back to verify life. a watchdog has found that uk drivers paid more for fuel at supermarkets last year because of a lack of competition between retailers. the competition and markets authority says drivers paid an average of an extra six pence a litre for fuel, with diesel 13 pence a litre more expensive. the government is now promising a change in the law to increase competition. simon williams, the rac�*s fuel spokesperson, gave...

So, what were trying to do with this project is is recreating the high street from the �*40s to the �*60s. so burgin�*s newsagents was the real heart of the community. it was famous. it wasnt a place you just came to buy a newspaper, was it? absolutely not. it was the place for all the gossip. it also makes you feel quite... its quite a sad feeling as well, isnt there, about whats happened? yeah, i suppose theres a melancholy there that, you know, the high street as it was doesnt exist in ...

Of recreating something like this. youve got that nostalgia thats within living memory. people still remember these buildings very fondly. indeed. so much has gone. stanton�*s is now a betting shop. brierley hills marsh & baxter is a nail bar. the next door bank is standing empty. and burgin�*s, on wolverhampton street in dudley, closed for good seven years ago. but cynthia burgin, here in the middle, who ran it for 56 years, is rather pleased her little shop will live on in a museum. well, ...

Dudley high street doesnt look like this anymore. no, absolutely not. this is spectacular. absolutely amazing. and unlike most museum exhibits, these are far from ancient history. steve and sandra, born and brought up in the area, soon began to recognise some old high street landmarks. marsh & baxter. yeah, they started in brierley hill in about 1867. oh, you know your marsh...? yeah, yeah. theyre very well known. it was an empire, wasnt it? an empire? it was an empire, really, yeah. so this is ...