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Birmingham financier gets record £1m fine over homes scam

Birmingham

Entrepreneur dubbed a disgrace to sector after receiving biggest fine of its kind to sole trader

Council bids to keep OAPs at home in cost-cutting drive

Birmingham City Council

Pensioner stock — Council reveals major changes to adult social care as drive to cut budget continues

Four workers at 2 Sisters Food Group struck by tuberculosis

Black Country

Birmingham's business community counting down to Brindleyplace Dragonboat Festival

Brindleyplace

Deutsche Bank's Hawaiian team takes part in the 2012 Brindleyplace Dragonboat Festival — Annual Brindleyplace event will raise thousands for Harry Moseley charity

HS2 demand 'has been overestimated'

High Speed 2

An artist's impression of the HS2 train — Thinktank says government is gambling with plans to invest heavily in new high-speed line

Stuart Griffiths, Hippodrome; Neil Rami, Marketing Birmingham; Andy Street, GBSLEP; Paul Kehoe, Birmingham Airport.

Marketing Birmingham Commercial Partners meeting

Left Right

Council sickness rates soar by a quarter

Birmingham City Council

Taxpayers foot the bill as authority sees the number of days lost to sickness increase

Two freed on bail after new arrests over Andrew Mitchell "Plebgate" affair

Sutton Coldfield

Andrew Mitchell leaves Downing Street on his bike — Diplomatic protection group police officer and a 49-year-old woman were held for questioning on Saturday

Outcry at council's £29,000 wheelie bin publicity campaign

Birmingham City Council

The new wheelie bins are delivered to Brandwood — Cash-strapped Birmingham authority spent funds to get public behind controversial scheme

Payout for mum arrested after death of three-year-old son

A Birmingham mum held on suspicion of murder after the tragic death of her three-year-old son has won a large payout from police.

A&E departments hit breaking point at West Midlands hospitals

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital — Three NHS trusts running hospitals in Birmingham fail to hit waiting time targets for casualty wards

Vandals attack grave of Stafford Hospital campaigner's mother

Julie Bailey, who campaigned for an investigation at Stafford Hospital — A grieving daughter who took on NHS bosses at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital has claimed her mother’s grave has been desecrated by hate campaigners.

West Midlands Police braced for more funding cuts

More than 5,000 apply for jobs at Midland Tesco

Chamber of Commerce

Rising unemployment blamed as almost 20 people apply for each position in new store

Tesco drops plan to build supermarket on site of former Moseley car dealer

Decline in state school students at Birmingham University

University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham — New research reveals a decline in state school candidates over the last decade

Mailbox refit could ruin us, say Birmingham city centre retailers

Mailbox

Retailers in Birmingham’s traditional shopping heartland fear a major investment in the city’s exclusive Mailbox could be another nail in the coffin for them.

£50m facelift planned for Mailbox in Birmingham

Birmingham Assay Office chief executive announces retirement

Jewellery Quarter

Sir Albert's 'dialogue' on how to make £340m cuts

Birmingham City Council

With at least £340 million of savings needed by 2017 and increasing burdens on social services, Sir Albert Bore has warned that the council will need ‘to do things very differently’ if services are to be maintained