Dear Editor, It is so sad for you and your staff that you are in such a parlous situation but the truth is that the Birmingham Post is vital to the business well-being of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. I can understand your leaning towards a weekly but each time the Post is reshaped or reorganised an important part of its fabric and character is lost.
As someone who had several happy years on the Post business desk I have many reasons to be thankful to it as it gave me the experience and grasp of business life to be able to join Tarmac as Corporate Affairs Director. It is this that prompts my recommendation. Over the years the newspaper’s grasp and handling of Midlands business stories has been of vital importance to its major companies. It has always championed the Midlands, been incredibly supportive to its business leaders and always been at the forefront of marketing and boosting the region’s achievements.
Roy Richardson, Sir Anthony Bamford, Tony Gallagher and other Midlanders in the ‘Rich List’ should launch some kind of Trust to ensure the future of not only the title but the great integrity and business balance that it has always strived to achieve. If my old boss at Tarmac, Sir Eric Pountain, was alive it would be an initiative that he would be only too happy to lead. Surely it is something that his former colleagues on the former Midlands Industrialists Council would wish to consider – after all, don’t Carillion, IMI, Cadbury’s and some of our other successful companies have good reason to want to save it?
Now that all the assets have been sold off by different owners, it should be a bi-weekly at least. A weekly could not properly highlight and cover all that is done and needs to be said in this great region of ours.
Kenneth A. Jackson,
Stafford.
