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Birmingham City Council

Business leaders back call for new bonfire of red tape
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Birmingham Chamber of Commerce said that the proposals 'could make a very real and tangible difference to companies'
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Major step forward for Midland Metro plans
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Long-awaited city centre transport plan set to be approved by council at meeting next week
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Major step forward for Midland Metro plans
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Key city centre transport initiative set to be given go-ahead by council
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Clampdown on council tax discount fraud
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Councils targeting thousands of claimants they believe are cheating the system
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From the archives: How The Library of Birmingham could have looked
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Ken Shuttleworth, Glenn Howells and Adjaye Associates came up with designs for city's new library
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Birmingham 'slum' Lee Bank transformed into city living village Park Central
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A decade has passed since work started on one of Birmingham’s biggest regeneration schemes, Park Central.
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Petition calling for referendum on Sutton Coldfield independence is handed in
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Campaigners joined local councillors to hand over a box of names to Labour Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore.
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Late accounts leave council with £334k auditors bill
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It comes a year after the city council was issued with a warning for being late with the 2011-12 accounts
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City council in major MIPIM conference push
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Sir Albert Bore will be joined by no less than 25 partners from across the city to the world’s largest real estate show
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MP tells bedroom tax tenants to take in a lodger
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Yardley MP says those hit by benefit cuts could rent out a spare room to make ends meet
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Remembrance parade faces axe
Economic Development
Annual march in Shirley, which dates back to 1938, could he scrapped ahead of a major anniversary
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Services For Eduction prove there is life after cutbacks
Economic Development
Charity business sells a range of services directly to schools.
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Government threatens action against Birmingham's childcare agencies
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Minister issues "final warning" to under-fire child protection services
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Keanu Williams murder: Lessons are not being learned, says NSPCC chief
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“It simply isn’t good enough to say that lessons will be learnt from serious case reviews when all of the evidence before us suggests they are not."
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Keanu Williams death: Children's services boss says Birmingham doesn't have enough great social workers
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Review into Ward End boy's murder says he was failed by child protection agencies in city.
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Sir Albert cutting an austere figure
Opinion
There have been more difficulties for Sir Albert Bore as he ploughs on with his ‘armageddon’, ‘jaws of doom’ and ‘end of local government as well know it’ narrative.
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Capita's Service Birmingham profits bonanza
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Last year Birmingham City Council paid Capita on balance £126m for ICT, billing and 'business transformation'.
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Council admits Birmingham's community libraries are at risk of closure
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Cuts to funding put local services under threat as authority seeks to save £100m a year
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Profits soar at council-funded Service Birmingham
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Calls for contract to be scrapped after Capita-led company sees pre-tax profits pass £21million
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'Desperation' to avoid binmen strikes sent Birmingham council equal pay bill soaring to £890m
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Retiring chief executive Stephen Hughes says nobody could have predicted scale of the claims - and city was hit by no-win, no-fee lawyers
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End of an era as Birmingham City Council's chief executive calls it a day
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Stephen Hughes was the highest ranking council officer under both Mike Whitby and Albert Bore. He talks to Neil Elkes about his eight years in the Birmingham hot seat.
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New Oscott retirement village will be 'Center Parcs' of elderly care
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The ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Hagley Road Village in Edgbaston will open its doors on October 3, a development with 240 apartments available to buy, part-own or rent.
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A children’s department that’s on the critical list
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There has been a major change of tack at Birmingham’s inadequate children’s services department.
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20mph speed limit planned for Birmingham roads
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Major change to come in over next seven years to make roads safer
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