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Council’s £470k bill to trace just 14 fly-tippers
Economic Development
Birmingham City Council fined just 14 fly-tippers in the last 12 months – in spite of being hit by 38 incidents every day.
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Rugby World Cup 2015 could leave a legacy
Economic Development
Birmingham Rugby Partnership to host a star-studded conference to discuss how best to ensure both Birmingham and the sport of rugby enjoy lasting legacy from the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
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£300m invested in firms managed by council body
Banking & Finance
Birmingham City Council’s lending arm Finance Birmingham has racked up £300 million under its management as work to balance out a tough funding climate continues.
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Child protection not just council issue – Peter Hay
Economic Development
Children’s services failures are not just a city council problem the new head of service has claimed,
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Shroud of secrecy around the £342,000 a day we pay Capita
Opinion
Capita makes £58,000-a-day profit from its Service Birmingham deal with the council – yet the contract details are kept secret, leaving taxpayers in the dark.
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A veneer of transparency
Opinion
Taxpayers money is being increasing foisted on companies to deliver public services whose cost and effectiveness are not open to public scrutiny.
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Birmingham's oldest nightclub Snobs to make £2m move across city
Economic Development
The venue will move to a new home in Smallbrook Queensway in April, in a move next April that will double capacity and create new jobs
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Birmingham City backs campaign to end youth homelessness
Economic Development
Birmingham has become the first city to sign up to a collective approach to end youth homelessness.
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Grave warning over cuts to Birmingham's parks
Economic Development
Council head of parks Darren Share paints bleak picture for the department amid budget cuts
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Birmingham's 20mph plans draw support
Economic Development
Campaigners get behind plans to reduce speeds in city's residential areas
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Midland developer lands New Street Station deal
Economic Development
Cannock Developments has been appointed by Network Rail and Birmingham City Council to work on the scheme
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Birmingham is cycle to work capital of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ
Economic Development
Survey by insurance company Cycleguard found 69 per cent of regular cyclists in the West Midlands use their bikes to get to their workplace
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Top civil servants earn more than private sector counterparts
Economic Development
Data reveals disparity between top earners in private and public sector
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£4m needed to repair city libraries
Economic Development
Call for investment in community libraries after data uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act
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Battery Park Sainsbury's scheme gets the green light
Commercial Property
Plans by the Harvest Partnership - a joint venture between Land Securities and Sainsbury’s - have been approved by Birmingham City Council
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The disgrace is national
Opinion
It is almost with disbelief that those in charge of Birmingham’s child protection services have greeted the assessment from Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw that they are a ‘national disgrace’
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Birmingham planners give Tesco green light for Stirchley store
Economic Development
The council's planning committee gave their unanimous support to the scheme which it claimed would regneration one of the city's struggling local centres
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Sir Albert Bore hits back at children's services criticism
Economic Development
Council leader defends department branded a 'national disgrace' by Ofsted chief
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Clean up after your customers or be fined, council to tell firms
Economic Development
Birmingham businesses could be asked to take a greater responsibility for tidying litter under new proposals
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Former Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby takes seat in House of Lords
News
He dressed in the traditional ermine robes for the short ceremony of introduction, which involves swearing allegiance to the Queen
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First tram in new £40 million Midland Metro fleet unveiled
Centro
New trams will go into service on the existing Metro route between Birmingham and Wolverhampton next year after undergoing several months of testing
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Top surveyor says business rates are being distorted
Economic Development
Head of rating at Birmingham surveyor Johnson Fellows David Cureton says the government to use the Consumer Price Index instead of Retail Price Index
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Sir Michael Wilshaw brands Birmingham City Council’s children’s services an ‘absolute disgrace’
Economic Development
An Ofsted report found more than half of councils were failing to protect the nation’s most vulnerable children.      
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Birmingham councillors' pay frozen for fourth year running
Economic Development
Councillors are best paid in local Government, but panel recognises that as well as running Europe’s largest local authority, they also have some of the largest wards in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ
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