Dudley North Labour MP Ian Austin has called for David Cameron to publish the results of an investigation into allegations that the Tory MP for Cannock Chase joined a Nazi-themed stag party.
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Poor management has been blamed for uncertainty facing a council-owned double glazing and door maker which employs physically and mentally disabled staff.Read
Major Birmingham City Council contracts should be independently audited to avoid a repeat of the costly off-shoring jobs to India fiasco, it has been claimed.Read
Labour has committed “electoral suicide” over the public sector strikes – handing the next election on a plate to the Tories, top national union leader Mark Serwotka said in Birmingham.Read
Labour’s plans for a “local benefit cap” could mean families in the West Midlands face tougher limits than under the Government’s controversial plans.Read
The battle over controversial reforms to the benefits system turned personal in the House of Commons as David Cameron attacked Birmingham MP Liam Byrne – for being bald.Read
David Cameron will personally decide the fate of Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley, once an inquiry into the Nazi-themed stag party attended by the MP reports its findings this month.Read
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has emerged as a front-running Conservative candidate to become the city’s first directly elected mayor after receiving a ringing endorsement from Government minister for cities Greg Clark.Read
Birmingham City Council’s debt stands at £2.5 billion, including vast amounts borrowed to pay for the new library and the purchase of the Pallasades shopping centre, it has emerged.Read
Black Country MP Tom Watson found himself apologising to followers on twitter after his intern posted an ‘inappropriate’ comment on his personal profile.Read
The £145,000-a-year job of improving Birmingham’s troubled children’s services is being handed to the head of an ‘outstanding’ department in Lincolnshire, it has been announced.Read
Birmingham’s business community is now firmly behind an elected mayor for Birmingham after the Chamber of Commerce formally joined Birmingham Forward in the ‘yes’ camp.Read
Plans for parking charges in a Solihull high street could ruin struggling businesses and choke off a town centre, an MP has claimed in the Commons.Read
Labour launched a last-minute bid to block May’s mayoral referendum, describing the Government’s decisions to force cities to hold a vote as “Leninist”.Read
Elections for up to 11 new city mayors, including those for Birmingham and Coventry, are being fast-tracked to November - if residents decide they want them.Read
An MP has revealed how his adoptive father was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, as Parliament prepared to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.Read
