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Paul Dale

Paul Dale

Birmingham City Council schools chief won't ask teachers to refuse to strike

The Conservative politician in charge of Birmingham’s schools is refusing to call on teachers not to walk out on strike in Wednesday’s national day of industrial action.Read

Aston's white community feels forgotten because of 'political correctness'

A white working class community in Birmingham feels its rights are being harmed by “political correctness”, according to research.Read

Iron Angle: Mike Olley gets serious in bid to be police commissioner

The debate about whether Birmingham should have a directly elected mayor has so gripped the chattering classes that another of the Government’s equally ground-breaking proposals to transform public governance has attracted little in the way of comment.Read

Birmingham Airport in row with CBI over London expansion plans

Birmingham Airport is at loggerheads with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) over its outspoken support for expansion of aviation services in London.Read

Indian restaurant plan approved for former Moseley pub The Jug Of Ale

A move to turn a former Birmingham pub into a king-size Indian restaurant has been approved.Read

Bids sought for £125m contract to bring faster broadband to Birmingham

The country’s biggest IT companies are lining up to bid for a £125 million city council contract to provide Birmingham with faster broadband services.Read

Faltering economy could still derail HS2, warns Network Rail chairman

A high speed train service between Birmingham and London is far from a done deal and could be thrown off course by further deterioration in western economies, the chairman of Network Rail has warned.Read

Moseley community activist to receive MBE in Birmingham

A Birmingham community activist who was appointed an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours has chosen to break with tradition by receiving her award in the community enterprise she helped set up, rather than at Buckingham Palace.Read

Underground car park with 1,000 spaces sought for Birmingham Eastside

Engineers are investigating the possibility of building a vast underground car park close to Birmingham’s planned high speed rail station.Read

Iron Angle: Boondoggle blues at the city council

Brandwood Labour councillor Dr Barry Henley is a clever chap, possibly a touch too clever for his own good.Read

Metro tram extension won't run in Birmingham city centre until 2015

The complexities of building the Midland Metro extension through Birmingham’s central shopping area make it unlikely that trams will be running along city centre streets until early 2015, it has been confirmed.Read

Birmingham's child social services department remains in special measures

Children’s safeguarding services in Birmingham face a fourth year working under an Improvement Order after Ofsted found that overall standards were still not high enough to remove the city council department from special measures.Read

Birmingham City Council chief apologises to staff for stress caused by cuts

Birmingham City Council chief executive Stephen Hughes has issued an extraordinary personal apology to “angry” local authority staff for the stress they are under as a result of an unprecedented redundancy and public spending cuts programme.Read

Rival bid for Jewellery Quarter building set to end hopes for Jesus Army centre

Plans to open a Jesus Army drop-in centre for prostitutes and drug addicts in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are on the brink of collapsing.Read

Jesus Army bid for drop in centre plan for Jewellery Quarter looks set to collapse

PLANS to open a Jesus Army drop-in centre for prostitutes and drug addicts in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are on the brink of collapsing.Read

Iron Angle: Lord Mayor Anita restores order at the council

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham had her strict, no nonsense, head on at this week’s meeting of the full city council.Read

Labour slams 'shameful' council for Birmingham job cuts

Birmingham’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition should be ashamed for acting so forcefully to drive through public spending cuts and axing hundreds of local government jobs, a leading Labour city councillor has insisted.Read

Rise in number of Birmingham children taken into care

The number of children being taken into care by Birmingham City Council is on the increase again after falling steadily for four years.Read

Birmingham City Council to make all spending cuts suggestions public

All suggestions about ways in which Birmingham City Council should deliver huge public spending cuts will be published as part of a unique consultation exercise.Read

Birmingham City Council advisors help people claim £10m in benefits

More than £10 million has been paid out to vulnerable people across Birmingham who did not realise they were entitled to claim welfare benefits.Read

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Paul Dale has been writing about local government in the West Midlands for more than 20 years. The Post's public affairs editor, he is a previous political editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph and Local Government Correspondent of the Oxford Mail.