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Chant would be a fine thing

Birmingham City’s official pie provider has linked up with a football fan chants website in an attempt to give fans everywhere a ‘true taste of the terrace’.

Viral website, www.fanchants.com, has for years bottled the sounds from grounds up and down the country. Every team in the English football league has a section on the site devoted to recordings of their fans in full song.

But now Peter’s Pies has got involved. Every chant will now be awarded a Peter’s Pies rating out of five on the ‘pie chart’. And fans themselves can rate the best chant.

Hopefully some of them will be more edifying than the Blues fans’ favourite chant which combines bodily functions and their city rivals Aston Villa.

Arts and Kraft

Members of the Cadbury Pensions team in Bournville have been showing off their artistic flair by spending time painting and decorating the Midland Heart owned Helen Dixon House in Moseley, Birmingham.

Helen Dixon House provides safe and supportive housing for women aged 25 and over. The Cadbury workers helped to paint and decorate the communal areas and assisted with general maintenance work.

The day with Midland Heart comes as part of a longstanding relationship between Cadbury and the organisation. Last year, more than 150 employees from Kraft Foods - Cadbury’s parent - and Cadbury volunteered with the organisation as part of Kraft’s Make a Delicious Difference Week.

Three leaping lawyers

Three Birmingham lawyers will be going where only legal eagles dare when they take part in a sponsored parachute jump for charity.

Birmingham Law Society (BLS) president Dean Parnell and fellow BLS officers Andrew Lancaster and Mary Kayewill take to the skies on Saturday to leap out of a plane at 13,500 feet.

The daring trio is raising money for Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust’s Tiny Babies, Big Appeal.

Parnell said: “I wanted to finish off my presidency with an event that would not only raise money for such a worthy cause, but which would also show our members we are prepared to take risks and have fun.”

If you would like to sponsor the attempt you can email Birmingham Law Society (becky@birminghamlawsociety.co.uk) with your pledge or alternatively you can donate at www.justgiving.com/BLSskydive.