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Business Profile: Kuldip Singh Wouhra

One of the West Midlands’s most successful entrepreneurs has been presented with an honorary doctorate. Tom Scotney speaks to Tony Deep Wouhra, the founder and controller of East End Foods about family, God and organic farming.Read

Applying the art of war to your business

The last decade has been a time of huge change and trouble for both the military and business worlds. Tom Scotney speaks to Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Yardley about bringing strategy from the battlefield to the boardroom.Read

Applying the art of war to your business

The last decade has been a time of huge change and trouble for both the military and business worlds. Tom Scotney speaks to Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Yardley about bringing strategy from the battlefield to the boardroom.Read

£35m apartments turn to nightmare for Jewellery Quarter neighbours

The owner of an art gallery in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter is set to take legal action against a developer he says turned the area around his business into a “bombsite” while building one of the city’s most exclusive new apartment blocks.Read

Lord Bhattacharyya's £1m gift to the University of Warwick

Editor Alun Thorne spoke to Professor Lord Bhattacharyya on why he is about to put his own money where his mouth has long been.Read

TB infects politics as NFU conference demands badger cull

West Midland farmers facing a disease which has seen thousands of the region’s cattle slaughtered have accused the Government of lacking strong leadership over its refusal to cull infected badgers.Read

Farmers weighed down by paperwork, NFU conference hears

An end to excessive paperwork which forces farmers out of the fields and ties them to their computers was another key call at the National Farmers’ Union conference in Birmingham.Read

British Gas to take on 190 new Midland workers

British Gas has said that it is recruiting staff in the West Midlands for a new insulation business to capitalise on a market expected to be worth £1.4 billion by 2015.Read

Travel group National Express makes loss of £83.5m

Birmingham travel group National Express has made a loss of £83.5 million after losing control of its East Coast rail franchise.Read

Centrica fuel anger as British Gas sees profits jump

Centrica fuelled anger over energy bills by revealing its British Gas residential arm made profits of £595 million last year - up 58 per cent on 2008.Read

Warwickshire County Cricket Club double their profits

Incessant summer showers and rising costs have not stopped Warwickshire County Cricket Club from more than doubling profits.Read

Strong buyer interest in collapsed Worcestershire training companies

Students left stranded by the collapse of two Worcestershire training firms were given fresh hope after administrators said there had been strong interest from potential buyers.Read

Former West Bromwich Building Society chairman Frank Pool Dilkes dies

A former war hero who went on to become the chairman of the West Bromwich Building Society has died after a short illness.Read

Centrica set to post 50 per cent hike in profits

British Gas parent Centrica will run the gauntlet of public outrage when it unveils a near-50 per cent hike in annual profits at its residential arm today.Read

Armoury Group appoints new commercial manager

The Armoury Group, the demolition firm, has appointed Tony McGovern as commercial manager.Read

United Nations set to step into Falklands oil row

Argentina’s foreign minister is to meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as tensions rose over a Worcestershire company's oil exploration off the Falkland Islands.Read

Mandelson still waiting for assurances from Kraft over Cadbury

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is still waiting for reassurances from Kraft about its plans for chocolate-maker Cadbury.Read

Birmingham city centre pub relaunched after refurbishment

A Birmingham city centre pub has relaunched after a £250,000 refurb.Read

Argentina's claim on Falkland Islands backed by Rio Summit

Latin American and Caribbean nations have backed Argentina's claim of sovereignty to the Falkland Islands in a growing dispute with Britain over a Midlands company's plan to drill for oil off the islands.Read

Boss of Luminar nightclubs to step down

A former motor mechanic who switched careers to create the UK’s biggest nightclub operator is to leave the business he founded 22 years ago.Read