Jul 14 2009 by Andy Richards, Birmingham Mail

TASTY treats were on sale when university staff staged a special funding-raising event for the Letisha and Charlene Education Awards Scheme.
The event was held by Birmingham City University as part of its second annual Learning & Teaching Festival.
Cake and plant stalls formed part of the fete at its Perry Barr campus last...

Sep 2 2008 By Gary Marks

PARENTS are being advised today on how to spot if their child is in a gang by a charity set up by the mothers of two Birmingham gun victims.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith speaks later today at the launch of the New Year Shooting Memorial Trust in Birmingham.
The trust has been set up by Beverley Thomas and Marcia Shakespeare, whose daughters died in a...

Jan 10 2008 By Poppy Brady

HOPES of creating a national weapons amnesty day could become reality after the Home Office held talks in Birmingham with the mums of gun victims Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis.
Marcia Shakespeare and Bev Thomas have been campaigning for an annual amnesty ever since their teenage daughters were shot dead at a New Year party in Aston in 2003....

Mar 29 2007 By Poppy Brady, Birmingham Mail

THE father of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor has praised the proposed expansion of an awards scheme set up as a living memorial to teenage shooting victims Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis.
Richard Taylor, whose ten-year-old son Damilola was murdered seven years ago in London, has formed a strong bond with Bev Thomas and Marcia...