Green belt land surrounding Birmingham could be swallowed up by 5,000 new homes if ambitious plans to increase the city’s population by 10 per cent are to be achieved, it has emerged.Read
Opera companies from Venice, Lisbon, Brussels, Verona, Madrid and Austria are expected to send representatives to see a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo at a disused rubber factory in Birmingham next month.Read
Albums by Black Country rock legend Robert Plant, along with Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets and Adele have all been nominated for this year’s Nationwide Mercury Prize.Read
Two West Midland police forces could be forced to delete thousands of criminal records from the national database after losing an Information Commission ruling appeal.Read
Plans to increase the population of Birmingham by 100,000 are likely to involve substantial house-building in sensitive rural locations, reports Public Affairs Editor Paul Dale.Read
An investigation into prosecutions where controversial Midland paediatrician David Southall was an expert witness has found no breaches of disclosure rules, MPs have been told.Read
A £290 million Government agency set up to support West Midlands businesses has received a vote of confidence from Ministers after less than a year under new leadership.Read
Two West Midlands police forces may have to delete thousands of old criminal records from the national database after losing an appeal against and Information Commission ruling. Read
Plans to extend Birmingham International’s runway and provide a direct link with India have been put at risk by Gordon Brown’s changes to air tax, it has been claimed.Read
