Plans for a £34 billion high speed rail line linking Birmingham with London, Manchester and Leeds have been thrown into turmoil after the official public spending watchdog concluded the HS2 business case does not make sense.
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Plans to divert billions of pounds from central government to the regions could be piloted in Birmingham and the surrounding area if the city’s business and civic leaders get heir way.Read
West Midlands councils have had their budgets cut by £76 million this financial year. Jonathan Walker looks at how a flawed US study could have led Chancellor George Osborne to wield the axe unnecessarilyRead
Plans to revive the West Midlands economy by handing billions to Local Enterprise Partnerships have been thrown into confusion after Business Secretary Vince Cable ruled them out.Read
Government ministers have denied doing a deal with rail operators who were demanding £40 million in compensation after the bidding competition for the Great Western rail franchise was scrapped in January.Read
The true devastating impact of benefits cuts in Birmingham can today be revealed with more than 14,000 households facing drastically reduced incomes.Read
New BBC Director General Tony Hall is to meet city leaders as they put forward proposals to make Birmingham the centre of the corporation’s digital revolution – clawing back major under-investment in the region.Read
Criminals who siphoned more than £1.8 million from a city charity used the money to buy themselves houses, employ family members, and handed themselves up to £10,000 “petty cash” a time, an inquiry has found.Read
One of Labour’s most senior MPs in the Midlands is at the centre of a major row with activists and union leaders after he refused to vote against the Government’s “workfare” plans in the Commons.Read
The trust which runs Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital has become embroiled in a bitter row with another Midland health trust over suggestions that it could take over another hospital.Read
NHS managers in failing hospitals will be put on a blacklist to ensure they can never work in the health service again - to prevent a repeat of the Stafford Hospital scandal.Read
