Reports that the Government is to announce a separate fraud investigation into the collapse of MG Rover are as alarming as they are frustrating for the 6,500 workers who lost their jobs at Longbridge.
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A planning application to build 16 new homes in Birmingham’s Moor Pool Estate conservation area is not, in the grand scheme of things, one of the biggest applications that city planners will have to consider this year.
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Gradually, month by month, the traditional pattern of council-run institutional social services care in Birmingham is changing – and with that change comes major implications for the local authority workforce.
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Birmingham has always been known as the UK’s motor city with landmarks like Spaghetti Junction defining its place at the centre of the UK’s transport network.
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There is nothing very unusual about shopkeepers complaining that their rents are far too high. Such has been the lot of the small trader over the centuries.
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As our MPs wake up today, some red faced at the exposure of their expenses excesses, all can take some comfort in the fact that they are not yet in the big-spending league of former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin.
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There’s little doubt that for one brief period in the 1980s the Brum Super Prix presented Birmingham, possibly for the first and only time in its history, as a pretty cool place to be.
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