Star Reporter Adam

Brummie hard news reporter, bylines all over the world but local news is my bread and butter. Current Midlands Daily Journalist of the Year

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

@joshsandiford_ Good work kid.
As a print journalist I was never taught broadcasting skills so when I was told to do a video on a Nokia next to the burning St Barnabas Church, Erdington, I corpsed and couldn't stop laughing.
You do great work....

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Hello @andy4wm
For the Invictus Games can we make sure there are not teenage agency workers not being forced to work 6am to midnight on minimum wage with unpaid breaks!
Behind the gleaming events is corporate greed + exploitation which is a shocking indictment on Birmingham

[Andy Street @andy4wm]

A fantastic night at the European Athletics Championships, and a reminder of how we’ve become a sports-hosting powerhouse.

✅ Best ever Commonwealth Games
✅ First EAC in GB
✅ Invictus Games back in the UK

Thank you to everyone now & during my Mayoralty who made it happen 👏🏻

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Full day of admin today as hours of being on hold to banks, various council departments, solicitors, USA embassy, estate agents.
Lost phone + number created a Kafkaesque two step authentication nightmare, holding up house sale + getting US media visa for Nov midterms.

#Ballache

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

In danger of sounding like a "if u've done nothing wrong uve nothing to worry about" div...
As someone who recently homed a vulnerable homeless man, noone in Brum should be homeless. HMO companies are lining to get £1,200 plus a month housing benefit for a room!

#R4Today

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Fair play to @andyburnham for trying to eradicate #homelessness but due to disastrous Care in the Community mental health policy means it's almost impossible to achieve zero rough sleepers.
Mistaking begging "tappers" as homeless is another problem

#R4today

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Blimey - started as an account for my charity PR job as like so many other things in my life I lost log-ins for @HardNewsAdam - amazingly somehow @stevezacharanda is still active whereas beloved Facebook account lost

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

First Stokeless test, only English cricket could lose our captain + best player over a nightclub visit.
Anyone "let down" + blarted about a grown man having a tot are to blame for the gaping world class hole in our line up.
Whole scandal was overblown by idiotic #ECB

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

@duncanjourno @birmingham2026 @EuroAthletics Whatever the stats, Mon+Tuesday empty stadium was embarrassing + someone deserves sacking.
I live by the stadium + spoke to workers.
Shocked teenage agency staff were slaving away 6am-midnight on minimum wage with 2 30min breaks and hour lunch (unpaid).
Is that even legal?

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Several of the agency staff who ensured The European Athletics Championships was a success in Perry Barr were being forced to work from 6am until midnight!
An 18 hour shift with unpaid 2 30min breaks + an hour.
Staff, some 16, on minimum wage being exploited for overpriced sport!

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

@LiamKeen_Star Youve done a great job, the paper will miss you, another legend leaving :)

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

#Birmingham2026 I've got a six day parking pass for a spot 500 metres from Alexempty Stadium............

[Chris Brown @ChrisBrownSport]

Lots of comments on the empty stands in the stadium last night.

You can see the exact row where the price of ticket goes up! It was packed in the cheap seats.

Monday night is a tough sell & it will pick up, but maybe the price point should be cheaper on weekdays?

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Maybe telling people nearest parking is Bescot in Walsall is putting people off #birmingham2026

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

So according to Midlands Today #Birmingham2026 "has caught the imagination" but we at saft.

Thousands of empty seats say it all, if tonight is empty then someone needs to be sacked. Embarrassing.

Then again Birchfield Harriers couldn't even afford to get in their own stadium

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

For that one hotdog you can get a mixed grill at Church Tavern

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Yep, that's the Midlands Daily News Journalist of the Year hawking his residents parking permit for #Birmingham2026 holding a can of cider before 1pm on a Monday ....

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Yep, that's the Midlands Daily News Journalist of the Year hawking his residents parking permit for #Birmingham2026 holding a can of cider before 1pm on a Monday ....

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

#journorequest

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

How much is the food at #birmingham2026 please

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

I tell you what would be great for #birmingham2026 visitors to Perry Barr is a Boxpark!

Remember that broken Commonwealth Games promise to Perry Barricans @BhamCityCouncil ???

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

How much is the food at #birmingham2026 please

[Star Reporter Adam @AdamLocal]

Thanks for ruining my news detox @stevezacharanda as I recalibrate my daily news sense bashoutability to the more strategic style of writing books.

But, it's only stopped spinning after my beloved once Mighty HN didn't splash on discovery of Phil Lynett's Rowley Regis house

[Steve Zacharanda @stevezacharanda]

@halesowennews PA story of Bill Oddie death in 'celebrities' section.

No mention Oddie was from Halesowen.

Until Morgan Rogers, Oddie was town's most famous son edging out that forgotten 1900s thriller writer.

Hard news hero @AdamLocal will be spinning in his journo grave.