Staff at Birmingham City Council ignored a last-minute plea by bosses to work normally and walked out on strike today, closing schools and disrupting public services.Read
Birmingham City Council has accused union leaders of spreading "scurrilous and inaccurate" information in an attempt to boost support for a two-day strike.Read
Birmingham and other major English cities should be run by a directly elected mayor in order to "reinvigorate" local politics, one of the Government’s favourite think tanks has said.Read
Children at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School in Worcester recently took part in a competition to name Barratt West Midlands' forthcoming new homes development, on the site of the former Cinderella Works on Watery Lane.Read
