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Birmingham Qu’ran goes on display
Station beats
competition Birmingham’s New Street Station has been crowned ‘UK Project of the Year’ at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards following a major £1bn redevelopment. More than 90 UK’s property schemes battled it out for top honours at the grand final, and it was the first time a West Midlands scheme has won the accolade. The Project of the Year award is
presented to the scheme which demonstrates outstanding best practice and significant benefit to their local area and wider economy. RICS Awards Grand Final judging
panel chairman, David Tuffin, said: “As one of Britain’s largest and most important cities, Birmingham deserves a station and shopping and leisure destination of this remarkable calibre. “This investment in the city has
created around 10,000 jobs and is expected to deliver around £2bn in economic benefits. It is the catalyst for further regeneration in other parts of the city centre, which will create even more jobs. “The team behind Birmingham
Gateway and Grand Central should be extremely proud. 180,000 passengers continued to use the station during the works, yet they still managed to create a visually striking, yet practical international gateway into Birmingham, on time, from which the city’s residents and visitors will prosper from enormously.”
A digital exhibition featuring the Birmingham Qu’ran manuscript – one of the oldest in the world – has gone on display in the Middle East. The manuscript belongs to the University of Birmingham, but it was only established last year that it was among the oldest in the world. Radiocarbon analysis dated the parchment on which
the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4 per cent accuracy, placing it close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.
‘The manuscript’s discovery captured the world’s imagination’
A digital version of the manuscript is now forming
part of the ‘UK/UAE 2017 Year of Cultural Collaboration’, which was launched at Al Jahili Fort, Al Ain, in Abu Dhabi, by Prince Charles. In a written foreword for The Ancient Qur’anic
Leaves exhibition catalogue, the Prince of Wales said: “As the British patron of UK/UAE 2017, I could not be more delighted that the extraordinary Birmingham Qur’an Manuscript is being exhibited in the United Arab Emirates as a centrepiece of the year's events. “These remarkable leaves, which are amongst the
world’s oldest Qur’anic fragments, represent a sacred document of immense religious and cultural significance. “The manuscript’s discovery captured the world’s
imagination and its first public exhibition at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom attracted visitors from across the world. “At a time when so much of mankind’s cultural heritage is being deliberately destroyed or threatened, we can only be heartened by the discovery of a previously unrecognised treasure.”
Working to reduce false alarms
West Midlands Fire Service is working with businesses to minimise disruption caused by fire alarms that go off when there is no fire. A Government estimate revealed that false alarms
in the UK as a whole cost £1bn a year. West Midlands Fire Service has a team dedicated
to bringing down the number of ‘unwanted fire signals’ from automatic fire alarms (AFAs), and the service can work with companies to minimise the disruption they cause. The WMFS Protection Team has three vehicles
dedicated to business engagement, education and support. They are strategically placed across the organisation’s service area.
Group Commander Simon Hardiman, head of fire
safety at WMFS, said: “We divide the organisation’s main activities into Prevention, Protection and Response, with everyone at WMFS dedicated to making the West Midlands Safer, Stronger and Healthier. “Five years ago we attended 9,908 AFAs a year,
compared to 5,735 in 2015-16. “West Midlands Fire Service is wholly committed to
reducing the number of false alarms, in turn helping businesses in our region to prosper and grow.”
To find out more about how WMFS can help to keep your business in business, contact the fire safety team on 0121 380 7500.
On display: The Birmingham Qur’an manuscript
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