Conservative party conference overThe 2010 Conservative Party conference held in Birming-ham’s ICC on Broad Street has come to an end. Many issues, local and dis-tant, were mentioned by the ruling party, but most notice-able agenda took place on the conferences second day, where the chancellor of exchequer George Osborne addressed plans for cuts to child benefits. The cuts are to affect 15% of households that are the

By Sogand Akrawi‘wealthiest’ constituting those who earn more than about £44,000. A controversial decision, but one which has been met with both residents of Edgbaston delight and dismay from those who attended the address. A dynamic area population by those who are better off, and those who are trying to make ends meet, will greet the pro-

posed with a reined response. A family household with one sole breadwinner who earns an annual income of £50,000 would be worse off than a household with the breadwin-ner earning £42,000. Of course, the cost of living in Birmingham is no way near as high as the cost of living in the area of London, so some of our Edgbaston residents can consider themselves lucky in that regard.

Broad Street Birmingham: Conservative conference taking place inside Picture: SP

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Girl, 15, strangled to death in her own school

By Sogand AkrawiOn the 25th September 2010, the start of an aca-demic year for the young ladies of St Pauls Catho-lic Grammar School, Nathan Smith aged 25, snuck into the building in search of a 15 year old student (Liberty Yates) who he claimed to be the love of his life. Her body was found at exactly 2pm when the school cleaner opened the store room door to find her body lying there on the floor with bruises around her neck. Nathan told the re-ceptionist that he was

there to say goodbye his younger sister, giv-ing her name and year group, before he went on holiday, because he didn’t get a chance in the morning. He sat quietly in the waiting area and once the receptionist had left the room for a few minutes, he didn’t hesi-tate to go through the main doors and start his own search around the school. When he found her, they argued and he dragged her into a small, dark store room and strangled her to death. Students in nearby

classrooms said that arguing and shouting was heard but seemed to be quite far away and thought it must have been a teacher telling off a student. Karen Johnson (school cleaner) said: ‘I opened the door and she was just lying there on the floor lifeless. It was the worst thing I had ever witnessed in my life.’ She cannot be named for safety reasons, how-ever it has been con-firmed that Liberty and Nathan they were having a rocky relationship for 7 months.

Victim:15 year old Liberty Yates Picture: SP

Murder scene: St Pauls Grammar School for Girls where 15 year old Libery Yates was mur-dered dur-ing school hoursPicture: AP

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In his interview with the police he said he only wanted to patch things up with her and didn’t mean for it to go that far. He claimed that even though they had been having problems, he loved her more than anything and didn’t know what came over him at the time. Nathan Smith has been charged with

murder and will face a life imprison-ment with a minimum of 25 years. As he was sexually active with an underage girl, he has been placed on the sex offenders list.She won’t be named for safety reasons however he appears in court this morn-ing for the final verdict of the court trial.