A Midland peer and former journalist has criticised newspaper standards and claimed a "deeply rotten culture" has been allowed to develop in some parts of the press.Read
Pro-European Conservative MPs have urged the Prime Minister to ensure Britain plays a leading role at the heart of the European Union, in the run-up to David Cameron’s long-awaited speech on Europe.Read
Birmingham City Council’s new cabinet member for contracts and commissioning has been warned not to create too much red tape for small and medium enterprises in his new social charter.Read
Conservatives and Labour are targeting seats in Birmingham, Dudley and Walsall, as both parties set out their plans for winning a majority at the next General Election.Read
The new Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands is to appoint three assistants paid £22,500 each - for working just ten days a month or less.Read
It was two-and-a-half years ago that David Cameron and Nick Clegg appeared together at a press conference in a Downing Street garden to publish an historic agreement setting out what they planned to achieve in a coalition government.Read
Conservatives and Labour are targeting seats in Birmingham, Dudley and Walsall, as both parties set out their plans for winning a majority at the next general election.Read
More than 16,000 long-term unemployed people in the West Midlands would be ordered to accept taxpayer-subsidised jobs or lose their benefits under a Labour government, Birmingham MP Liam Byrne has said.Read
Britain’s most senior civil servant has warned there are “very serious unanswered questions” about the behaviour of police who leaked allegations about Birmingham MP Andrew Mitchell.Read
Conservative Party members would like to see their conference return to Birmingham, according to a man who helped to bring it here in the first place.Read
Birmingham MP Liam Byrne has defended plans to force unemployed people to work, as Labour clashed with the Government over the best way to cut the welfare bill.Read
A Staffordshire Conservative MP has cast doubt on both the police and Andrew Mitchell’s accounts of the Downing Street 'Plebgate' bust- up which led to the Sutton Coldfield MP's resignation as chief whip.Read
Councils, not the Government, are to blame for massive cuts in local services, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles tells political editor Jonathan WalkerRead
