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Post Comment: Buildings must be designed for people

One of the puzzles of modern life is why the Victorians were able to do so many things which nowadays appear so difficult - from building railways to designing beautiful buildings.Read

Post Comment: Now we need to see results

It was all smiles as George Osborne and Michael Heseltine joined Birmingham's business leaders and politicians to launch the city centre enterprise zone.Read

Post Comment: A better time than ever to go racing

The Birmingham Super Prix has become a divisive issue.Read

Post Comment: Welfare to Work isn't working

Once again, the monthly unemployment figures have provided a mixed picture.Read

Post Comment: E-cigarettes light up the region's economy

The West Midlands is the home of innovation and the success of Bromsgrove firm E-Lites is just the latest example.Read

Post Comment: City plan must serve everyone

Birmingham City University has high hopes of creating a state-of-the-art campus in the heart of the city.Read

Post Comment: The Burley file needs a public airing

We all make mistakes. And many of us would lead miserable lives if we weren't eventually forgiven for our errors and allowed to move on.Read

Post Comment: The party's just beginning

Gusty seaside towns used to be the venue for party conferences.Read

Post Comment: Digging deep for the real Richard III

He was a greedy and sometimes cruel king who used violence to seize a crown to which his claim was dubious at best.Read

Post Comment: BBC must accept that it needs city

Birmingham may be the home of some of the BBC's greatest achievements - The Archers - but it's enjoyed an unhappy relationship with the broadcaster in recent years.Read

Post Comment: Driving the quest for the 'Holy Grail' of fuel

Phrases like advanced manufacturing and green technology are thrown around a lot, not least because almost every part of the country hopes to become a "centre of excellence" for them, or whatever the fashionable phrase is.Read

Post Comment: With wealth comes jobs

The nation has entered a period when some people could have mixed feelings about the celebration of wealth. Read

Post Comment: Take heed on gender diversity

The last thing that companies in the West Midlands need is more red tape at the moment, but the issue of increasing female representation on boards will not go away.Read

Post Comment: A plan that the city can be proud of

Good news has been hard to come by of late, but progress with the Big City Plan has to be welcomed.Read

Post Comment: We need a growth Coalition

What is the Coalition for? In a sense, it's just there to give Britain a government.Read

Post Comment: Hard to escape from a very tricky business

Of all the services that could be managed by the private sector, prisons are perhaps the least obvious.Read

Post Comment: Passenger patience tested to the limit

It’s the same old story every January. Long suffering travellers express outrage that their rail tickets have gone up by an inflation-busting amount yet again.Read

Post Comment: A speedy job that must make work a pleasure

The plans to make a car to smash the world land speed record makes one wonder why there was ever a shortage of engineering graduates.Read

Post Comment: Border force is first line of defence

Given the greatly increased security at all airports in response to the threat of international terrorism, it is incredible that travellers still seem to think that they will be able to smuggle weapons and ammunition through customs.Read

Post Comment: Make Eastern dreams reality

Search beneath most positive business news stories at the moment and you don’t usually have to look to hard to find the word “China”.Read