Birmingham’s private sector developers and construction companies have given “sterling support” to the city’s presence at MIPIM 2010, the global property conference in Cannes in March, according to city council leader Coun Mike Whitby.Read
The plane to Nice was packed with lots of male, middle-aged men. For a minute I thought I was on the wrong flight: a try-before-you-buy timeshare trip, or a Saga golfing holiday charter perhaps. Read
You are pushing on an open door if you want to put your money into Birmingham in the next ten years, council leader Mike Whitby will tell the world’s leading investors at MIPIM 2010, the global property conference in Cannes.Read
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has given his backing the politician and an official at the centre of criticism over the Khyra Ishaq scandal.Read
Birmingham City Council is seeking to defuse trade union claims that the local authority’s severe financial difficulties are bound to result in savage cuts to jobs and services.Read
Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians running Birmingham have finally sprung to the defence of a city council budget that sets out plans for a £75 million savings package and raises the possibility of up to 2,000 local authority jobs disappearing.Read
Birmingham city council leader Mike Whitby has joined the council of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to foster links between the public and private sectors in the city.Read
The great Victorian mathematician and children’s author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson would undoubtedly have felt at home had he been able to sneak into the rows of vacant public seats at this week’s meeting of the Birmingham City Council cabinet.Read
Approval has been given for work to begin on Birmingham’s new £193 million civic library, amid a row over how much the project will actually cost. Read
