George Osborne was urged to provide new businesses with loans of up to £20,000 to help them create jobs, as he prepared to deliver his Budget today.Read
Luxury Birmingham hotels Malmaison and Hotel du Vin have been bought by an American private equity firm following months of uncertainty and a financial crisis.
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Andy Street, the head of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, told business leaders in the borough that it forms “a critical part” of the LEP’s workRead
Chancellor George Osborne is announcing radical plans to try to get Britain’s economy growing by diverting billions of pounds to local partnerships of councillors and business leadersRead
Lord Heseltine has urged the Goverment to hand over a share of £70 billion to Birmingham and neighbouring towns and counties, as he launched the “Greater Birmingham Project” alongside business and council leaders.Read
A supermarket chain has submitted a planning application for a 30,000 sq ft store on a former engineering factory site in north Birmingham which could create around 200 jobs.Read
Regulators have been accused of “destroying” long-established Midland law firm Blakemores and throwing around 250 employees out of work with “farcical” haste.Read
George Osborne was urged to throw his weight behind plans to devolve funding from central government to local councils and enterprise partnerships, in the run-up to his Budget statement.Read
The life sciences sector has been identified as a huge growth opportunity for the region. Cillian O’Brien talks to companies about the innovations that are going to boost the West MidlandsRead
A luxury Birmingham airline which transports VIPs around the world missed out on the chance to fly the Rolling Stones in style after refusing to allow one of the ageing rockers to smoke on board.Read
A Labour government would set up a regional bank to ensure firms across the West Midlands and could borrow money to invest, party leader Ed Miliband is to announce.Read
