Birmingham barrister Ayoub Khan, a leading Liberal Democrat city councillor, is facing four counts of professional misconduct over claims he smeared a Labour opponent while giving evidence in court.Read
High profile MP Clare Short has revealed she turned down the opportunity to take part in a reality TV show where MPs learn what life is like for residents in deprived estates.Read
Five years after Richard Mawrey QC famously commented that postal ballot fraud in Birmingham, organised as he saw it by the Labour Party, would disgrace a banana republic the murky waters continue to fester and stink.Read
Birmingham city bosses are trying to cram too many major buildings into the city centre, leading to inferior facilities such as the Olympic-sized swimming pool, which could not host an Olympic swimming contest.Read
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is under pressure to sack one of his rising stars in Birmingham after city councillor Ayoub Khan failed to overturn a judge’s ruling that he behaved in a “scurrilous” manner by attempting to smear a Labour opponent when giving evidence in an election court.Read
Campaigners are calling on the Government to take action on child poverty as new figures revealed that Ladywood, in Birmingham, was the poorest constituency in the country.Read