A city councillor has praised the hard work of conservationists in protecting Birmingham’s historic buildings, three weeks after describing them as “middle class idiots”.Read
Outspoken Birmingham Tory councillor Len Clark is to apologise for an outburst during which he condemned the city’s Victorian Society as a bunch of “middle class idiots” out of touch with modern life.Read
After being labelled “middle class idiots” for opposing plans to bulldoze a row of derelict Victorian villas in Birmingham, conservationists have launched a legal challenge against the city councilRead
Conservationists were dismissed as “middle class idiots” by a council chief as plans to demolish a row of derelict Victorian villas on one of Birmingham’s major commuter routes were approved.Read
The Conservative councillor appointed to turn around Birmingham’s under-performing services for vulnerable children is preparing the ground for a series of highly controversial decisions designed to deliver a complete restructuring of the social care department.Read
Birmingham’s under-fire social services bosses spent £300,000 searching for a computer software system to record details of children at risk of abuse, only to discover that what they wanted didn’t exist.Read
An investigation which branded Birmingham’s children’s social services department as unfit for purpose has won a national award for straight-talking.Read
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