Birmingham and Solihull RFC

16:25, 3 AUG 2017

The Queen 'Street triage' cuts detentions under Mental Health Act The initiative aims to give people suffering from mental health issues much better initial support on the city’s streets

Chamber of Commerce Greater Birmingham combined authority calls win Black Country support The chair of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce Devolution Group says the region would be better served under the Greater Birmingham banner

Finance Wesleyan director Ahmed Farooq takes over as BPS Birmingham chair

Mr Farooq has taken on the role at BPS, which represents the professional and financial services sector in Greater Birmingham

Politics West Midlands nears combined authority after Solihull backing A pledge from Solihull leader Bob Sleigh comes after Coventry City Council backed plans for the new body overseeing areas like skills and regeneration

Finance Finance Birmingham agrees funding deal for Contact Transport The investment will allow the company to continue growing, following a 60 per cent increase in turnover to nearly £20 million in the last 12 months

Curzon Street Station Ed Balls promises city centre enterprise zone will extend to Curzon HS2 Station Business leaders welcomed an earlier vow from George Osborne to extend the enterprise zone which would open up the door to borrowing millions needed to regenerate and create thousands of jobs

Birmingham city centre Conservatives vow to extend Birmingham enterprise zone to Curzon Street George Osborne has announced an expansion of the city centre enterprise zone to take in the regeneration area around Curzon HS2 Station

Birmingham Metropolitan College Birmingham Metropolitan College axes up to 250 jobs

Funding cuts blamed as further education college reveals major cutbacks across the region

BBC Birmingham chosen to pilot BBC Make it Digital Traineeship programme The BBC Make it Digital Traineeship programme is a partnership between the broadcaster, the Department for Work and the Pensions and Skills Funding Agency, supported by a range of other organisations

Andy Street BPS Birmingham and Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP launch SME funding portal The website has been launched jointly by BPS Birmingham, the organisation representing the region’s business professional and financial services sector, and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership

Colmore Row Birmingham artist Reuben Colley opens Colmore Row gallery City artist's paintings of Birmingham will sit next to work from the likes of Warhol and Damien Hirst

Andy Street Wholesale Markets and Icknield Port Loop on show at MIPIM 2015 Greater Birmingham’s schedule will comprise 11 events and 25 speakers across the four-day property exhibition

BBC BBC Midlands fair share campaign backed by production industry Senior industry figures say the television production sector in Birmingham has been crushed with BBC investment largely focused on all regions but the Midlands

NEC Birmingham NEC Group sold to LDC in £307m deal

Sale of the NEC Group represents one of the largest in the history of Birmingham City Council, while new owners have pledged improvements to the venues

Centenary Square Architects' plans to transform Centenary Square revealed

Artists' impressions show architects' plans to transform one of the most central public spaces in Birmingham

Birmingham Airport Birmingham bumps Berlin off list of 20 top travel destinations Egencia, the business travel offshoot of Expedia, chooses the city in its list of 20 top destinations in Europe

Local Enterprise Partnership £350m Greater Birmingham growth deal 'is just the start'Nick Clegg said councils would need to embrace change if they hoped to win further funding and devolution packages

SMEs Birmingham named start-ups hub as entrepreneurs 'taking city seriously'Birmingham has retained its position as the most entrepreneurial UK city outside London, with more than 18,000 new businesses registered in the city last year

New Year's Honours Hippodrome boss Stuart Griffiths, Meera Syal and Brendon Batson among the New Year's Honours Mr Griffiths is awarded an OBE for his services to the arts in the city, while Ms Syal and Mr Batson both upgraded their MBEs, with Wolverhampton-born actress Syal made CBE and footballer-turned-administrator Batson made an OBE

Birmingham City Council Sir Bob Kerslake: Birmingham's poorest are being let down

A damning report commissioned by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has warned Birmingham of City Council to stop making excuses for its failings, and to change the way councillors are elected

Birmingham City Council Birmingham Curzon HS2 Masterplan wins planning award

Plans drawn up by Birmingham City Council to transform the city centre win national accolade

Local Enterprise Partnership A quarter of enterprise zone jobs created in West Midlands A total of 3,200 of 12,530 jobs created since enterprise zones were launched have come in Birmingham and the Black Country

Politics West Midlands mayor: The possible candidates With talk mayor for the West Midlands back on the agenda, political editor Jonathan Walker assesses the potential candidates

Centenary Square Birmingham’s Centenary Square to be redesigned A competion for the public space is now being launched through the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Landscape Institute on behalf of the city council

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