Apr
2005
Articles from 11th Apr 2005
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Win Blues tickets!
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
What would it be like to be a guest in the Directors Box of St Andrews, cheering on Birmingham City? Read
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Save our city!
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
Mike Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, has sent an urgent letter to Tony Blair asking him to open a dialogue on the MG Rover crisis. Among the measures demanded by Coun Whitby from the Prime Minister are: Read
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Round-world race 'like being mugged'
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
When retired company director Major Malhi envisaged sailing round the world, he pictured cool gin and tonics and a warm breeze ruffling his hair. Read
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Chinese may already own enough to build vehicles
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
Administrators at MG Rover are still discovering what they have left to sell. Read
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Howard cashes in on Labour's discomfort
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
Chief Reporter Paul Dale was the only journalist with Conservative Party leader Michael Howard when he met Longbridge workers in Birmingham yesterday. Read
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No illusions in can-do city
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
This is the full text of the urgent letter Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has sent to Tony Blair asking him to open a dialogue on the MG Rover crisis and stressing the need to work together to address its long-term impact on the West Midlands Read
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Not-so-fab four and their palatial piles
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
They have been accused of reaping rich rewards while the company they run is on the verge of closure. Adam Aspinall went on the trail yesterday of the homes and lifestyles of the Phoenix directors Read
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£6.5m to stop sackings
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
The Government has stepped in with a £6.5 million loan to prevent redundancies at MG Rover today. Read
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Perhaps new firms will rise from ashes
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
Last week, two days before news broke that the administrators were going into MG Rover, the Institute of Directors argued the end had come for the Birmingham carmaker. Bob Michaelson, West Midlands chairman of the IoD, explains Read
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9,000 primary school places going begging within five years
Apr 11 2005 | West Midlands News
Declining birth rates in parts of Birmingham mean more than a tenth of current primary school places will no longer exist by the end of the decade. Read
