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UK News: 80,000 rise in jobless forecast

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:15 GMT

The Government is braced for more bad news on the jobs front with new unemployment figures expected to show another increase, sparking fresh calls for action.

Transport News: London Midland sorry for tweets concerning rail deaths in Birmingham

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:24:00 GMT

A rail firm has apologised after its Twitter account told a commuter to “Go to the pub” after a suspected suicide at a Birmingham train station.

West Midlands News: Dangerous laptop chargers seized by Birmingham Trading Standards

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:20:00 GMT

Thousands of potentially deadly laptop chargers and leads have been seized in raids on three warehouses in Birmingham.

West Midlands News: Heating firm keeps Birmingham City Council contract despite poor results

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:10:00 GMT

A boiler repair firm accused of leaving Birmingham families without heating in the run-up to Christmas has won a stay of execution despite still being behind on repair targets.

UK News: Bid to rescue crisis-hit Rangers

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:05:20 GMT

Efforts have begun to secure the future of football giant Rangers after the club went into administration.

West Midlands News: National Motorcycle Museum staff may have to quit over bus route changes

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:57:00 GMT

Dozens of long-serving workers at the National Motorcycle Museum near Solihull could be forced out of their jobs by the re-routing of a National Express bus service.

West Midlands News: Council tax payments for West Midlands fire service frozen again

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:40:00 GMT

The amount of money residents in the West Midlands pay for the fire service is to be frozen for the second year running after councillors voted against a plan to increase levels.

Latest News: More than 5,500 families across Merseyside likely to be hit by tax credits ‘bombshell’

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT

MORE than 5,500 poorer families across the Merseyside area will be hit by a "tax credits bombshell" within weeks, Labour has warned – losing nearly £4,000 a year.

UK News: Inequality 'hits child development'

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:05:26 GMT

England is failing its young children "on a grand scale" due to inequality, with many not achieving basic levels of social and emotional development, according to a leading expert.

UK News: MPs seek 'answers' on independence

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:05:25 GMT

A Commons committee has called for clarity on the "unanswered" questions of Scottish independence.

UK News: Poll reveals GP hospital care fears

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:05:25 GMT

A third of GPs know a patient who was given "dangerously sub-standard" care at their local hospital in the past year, according to a poll. One in 10 have even had one of their patients die, potentially as a result of poor hospital care, in the past 12 months.

UK News: Legal challenge to pensions reform

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:05:24 GMT

A leading teachers' union is to issue a legal challenge to the Government over its controversial pension reforms in a fresh blow to ministers' hopes of an end to the long-running dispute, it has been announced.

UK News: PM to tackle drink abuse 'scandal'

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:05:17 GMT

David Cameron will vow to take on the "scandal" of public drunkenness and alcohol abuse that costs the NHS £2.7 billion a year.

UK News: 107,000 sign 'stop health bill' bid

Birmingham Post — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:16 GMT

More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Government to abandon the Health and Social Care Bill.

UK News: Eurozone Greece talks called off

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:05:27 GMT

A meeting of the finance chiefs of the 17 eurozone countries to discuss Greece's second multibillion bailout planned for Wednesday has been called off after Athens failed to deliver on several demands made by its partners in the currency union.

UK News: Peers curb 'bedroom tax' plans

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:05:26 GMT

Peers have imposed new restrictions on the Government's proposals for a "bedroom tax" on council tenants with spare rooms but backed down over changes to other parts of the coalition's controversial welfare shake-up.

UK News: Key Greek finance meeting put off

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:05:15 GMT

The meeting of Eurozone finance ministers to settle Greek's bailout deal has been postponed.

UK News: Rangers in crisis over £9m tax bill

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:05:14 GMT

Scottish football giant Rangers has gone into administration over an unpaid tax bill of £9 million - accrued since Craig Whyte's takeover.

UK News: Fresh setback for welfare reforms

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:05:14 GMT

The Government has suffered a fresh setback over its controversial welfare reforms as peers voted to limit the impact of the "bedroom tax" on social housing tenants with spare rooms.

UK News: Kate greets crowds on solo visit

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:15 GMT

The Duchess of Cambridge has spent Valentine's Day nearly 8,000 miles away from her husband but had no shortage of admirers as she visited Liverpool.

UK News: Whitney funeral at childhood church

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:05:16 GMT

Whitney Houston's funeral is to take place at the church in which she performed as a child.

UK News: Care probe hospital suspends staff

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:05:15 GMT

A hospital has suspended members of staff and closed a medical ward as part of an investigation into the care of a patient, it has said.

UK News: Rangers FC enters administration

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:05:14 GMT

Rangers Football Club has gone into administration following a tense court battle with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

JLR news: Jaguar Land Rover posts £559m profit in single quarter

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Soaring demand from growing Asian economies has helped car giant Jaguar Land Rover to post pre-tax profits of £559 million in just three months.

UK News: Bangkok bomber injured in own blast

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:05:16 GMT

An Iranian armed with grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians in a trio of blasts in Bangkok.

UK News: Houston's hits set to storm charts

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:05:16 GMT

Whitney Houston looks set to storm back into the top 10 following her death.

UK News: £500,000 seized from canoeist wife

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:05:15 GMT

Prosecutors have recovered more than half a million pounds from the wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin.

UK News: Rangers FC appoints administrator

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:05:14 GMT

Rangers Football Club has named an administrator after HM Revenue and Customs lodged a court petition to have one appointed.

UK News: Most hate crimes feature racism

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:05:17 GMT

More than four-fifths of hate crimes prosecuted last year were racially aggravated, figures have shown.

UK News: Perjury file over Lawrence trial

Birmingham Post — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:05:16 GMT

Prosecutors are considering allegations of perjury against certain witnesses in the Stephen Lawrence trial, it has emerged.