Articles...
Sep 5 2008
Jamaica, Barbados and India are the latest countries being courted by Birmingham with a view to using the city as a training base before the 2012 Olympic Games in London....
Sep 5 2008
Financial wizards at Birmingham City Council have invented a new way of accounting which may be useful to us all during these difficult times....
Aug 31 2008
Birmingham City Council’s love-hate relationship with global property experts Cushman and Wakefield will be put to the test again this month when the annual league table of the best UK business cities is published. ...
Aug 8 2008
Mike Whitby’s florid account of the resumption of production of MG sports cars at Longbridge bore more than a passing resemblance to the efforts of another Tory wordsmith, Lord Jeffrey Archer. ...
Aug 4 2008
After Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby outlined his role in the aftermath of the collapse of MG Rover, Longbridge MP Richard Burden gives his version of events....
Aug 4 2008
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has been accused of manipulating the resumption of car production at Longbridge for his own personal glorification....
Aug 4 2008
Birmingham MP Richard Burden has accused city council leader Mike Whitby of hijacking the resumption of car production at Longbridge in a personal glory-trip....
Aug 1 2008
As the first MG TF cars roll off of the production line, council leader Mike Whitby remembers the dark days of MG Rover's collapse in 2005....
Jul 14 2008
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has delivered a passionate plea for Government approval to demolish the Central Library, declaring it unworthy of preservation....
Jun 28 2008
Neville Summerfield, the Birmingham cabinet member for regeneration-lite, has suffered another humiliating put-down at the hands of city council leader Mike Whitby....