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      <title>“Find Freedom From Smoking”: New Campaign Launches Across Birmingham</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council has launched a campaign to help you find freedom by giving up smoking.</description>
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      <title>“Light up Your Life”: Stop smoking campaign launches across Birmingham and Solihull</title>
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      <description>The Birmingham and Solihull Tobacco Control Alliance has launched a campaign to help you light up your life, by giving up smoking.</description>
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      <title>Creating an Active Birmingham</title>
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      <description>Birmingham City Council are publishing a consultation on the Draft Creating an Active Birmingham Strategy. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Supporting cities to improve food justice</title>
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      <description>In 2021, Birmingham City Council launched the Global Food Justice Pledge (GFJP) at the 7th  Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) Global Forum.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Fast Track City partners unveils ‘Red Ribbons’ AIDS and HIV Memorial</title>
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      <description>Birmingham’s Fast Track City partners are set to unveil a memorial to honour those lost to AIDS and living with HIV.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Council encourages more physical movement in August’s fitness challenge</title>
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      <description>We’ve joined in a national campaign with WeActive and our local NHS partners to get active this August. We want you to join us, whether you are a bin man, a social worker in moving more.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr David Nabarro headline speaker at international summit on sustainable food futures at Birmingham 2022</title>
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      <description>Trade summit focussed on healthy and sustainable food futures to take place at UK House.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Birmingham and Solihull support new plan to make smoking obsolete by 2030 </title>
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      <description>Organisations across Birmingham and Solihull today welcomed the publication of the Khan Independent Review into Smokefree 2030 policies and support the review’s four key recommendations:&#13;
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      <title>Birmingham and Solihull residents encouraged to use local parent resources for infant mental health</title>
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      <description>Inaugural Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (IMHAW) 13 to 19 June, seeks to highlight the importance of babies’ mental health as well as the surrounding issues that affect it.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Innovative partnership between two councils to tackle health inequalities within Black communities</title>
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      <description>Birmingham and Lewisham Councils have jointly published a ground-breaking report identifying 39 ways to tackle health inequalities faced by people of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage.</description>
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