An elected mayor should be given control or influence over all public sector spending and assets in the city, including health, policing, transport and economic development, one of the candidate hopefuls for Birmingham has argued.Read
Rich countries are failing to contribute to an international emergency fund leaving the world "dangerously unprepared" for future disasters, the International Development Secretary has warned.Read
Children need lessons to teach them how to be “financially literate” and taught in schools to use credit cards to avoid wracking up debts as adults, Midland MPs have claimed.Read
Black Country MP Ian Austin has joined the criticism of Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley by claiming the Conservative Party had attempted to 'brush the scandal under the carpet'.Read
The Government is pressing ahead with legislation to enact its controversial public sector pension reform in the new year, even though an agreement has not been reached with unions to end the bitter dispute.Read
West Midlands Police should use its £500,000-a-year vehicle budget to buy British cars and vans, according to a politician bidding to become the region’s first elected police commissioner.Read
Staffordshire MP Aidan Burley has been sacked from his role in the Department of Transport despite apologising for attending a stag party where the groom dressed as a Nazi and toasts were made to the policies of Hitler.Read
Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to ‘turn around the lives’ of Britain’s troubled families has been welcomed by Birmingham’s head of crime and communities.Read
The West Midlands MP who attended a party where friends allegedly chanted Nazi slogans should be expelled from the Conservative parliamentary party, according to a Labour MP.Read
Birmingham has been offered control over rail and bus services, job centres and further education – if the public decides it wants an elected mayor.
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