Birmingham City Council has admitted sending out leaflets which showed its US namesake's skyline instead.




About 720,000 pamphlets praising Brummies for their recycling were sent around the city at a cost of £15,000.

But instead of showing landmarks such as the Rotunda and the new Selfridges building, it showed downtown Birmingham, Alabama,...

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So three days into running our websites my wife greets me with the question "How much money have we made?" My reply is of course "not much". "well why not?" I then begain to tell her this isn't something you start and instantly begin rolling in the cash, it is a business and as such it takes alot of work to get it running and then there still are no guarantees it will make money. My cloud at least in her eyes seems to be breaking apart. Just to give a little background...

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So in keeping with my fantasy and my wife seeing how happy it made me to have something new to spend time on that could potentially make some money she whole heartedly jumped on my cloud. Thus not only was conan site born, but so were her cell phone site and her baby site. Thus began a new saga that we could both share and work on together.

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So when does a hobby turn into a business? For me it started with the constant questions being asked...what do you get out of playing these games? You don't make any money, you don't free up any time for family, you are so involved you dont even see what is happening under your nose and it costs money every month, not to mention the initial cost of buying the game and frequent updates to computer to be able to play the latest and greatest. So when presented with an opportunity to own a website which...

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