A blueprint for UK Central (UKC) – the area around the NEC and Birmingham Airport – claims it could boost the region’s economy by £19.5 billion by 2040
Civic Catering told a committee it is hamstrung through direct council control with problems including having to pay £15,000 a year extra in agency costs
The Midland arm of private equity house LDC has given the manufacturing and specialist engineering sector a
boost after announcing a pledge to increase its investment from £200 million to £300 millioN
The
children’s social care watchdog committee heard the department is on course to spend its fifth year tagged as inadequate unless there is a drastic turnaround
Sarah Evans writes "Most
of the country swept away single-sex education in the 1960s and 70s but
Birmingham was much less keen to embrace this for a number of historical reasons."
Reggae stars Aswad are in town, Bruce Springsteen will rock Coventry's Ricoh, there's chilling opera at the Hippodrome and Flowers and Fables at the Symphony Hall
More than 4,000 winners and their guests attended the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2013 held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole at Birmingham NEC.
The an annual tongue-in-cheek awards event, The BRENDAs, organised by Birmingham’s commercial property sector, was held at the Burlington Hotel in Birmingham.
Neil Elkes writes "Two of the more seasoned politicians
in Birmingham appear to have fallen out with party colleagues and ruled
themselves out of next year’s local elections."
The
children’s social care watchdog committee heard the department is on course to spend its fifth year tagged as inadequate unless there is a drastic turnaround
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