Birmingham has been selling itself to the world at the Sister Cities festival in Chicago. Post magazines editor Jon Perks looks back at the week-long festival.Read
Volunteers who have worked for months helping to inject a sense of green tranquillity into a Birmingham suburb have seen their work attacked by vandals.Read
Insurance giant Norwich Union is to axe around half of its workforce in Birmingham – cutting nearly 300 jobs – as part of a major restructuring of its general insurance arm over the next two years.Read
The last chances of Birmingham getting a Grand Central railway station at Eastside have disappeared after city planners approved a £350 million scheme for flats, offices and shops on land earmarked by supporters of the ambitious project.Read
A Worcestershire village used as the burial site for 100,000 animal carcasses during the foot-and-mouth epidemic could now become the home of a giant ‘titan’ prison.Read
Birmingham’s claim to be a modern global city has been questioned after plans for a digital advertising screen were blocked on the grounds it would spoil the view.Read
