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Drive to develop green car technology set to create 250 jobs
Economic Development
The project aims to help the º£½ÇÊÓƵ car industry supply base develop low-carbon vehicle technologies and test their viability in production, while driving down research and prototype costs.
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MTC to play role in driving green technology to automotive industry
Economic Development
Project will create facilities in Yorkshire and in the West Midlands.
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Helping garden wildlife
Retail & Consumer
Wildlife is preparing for winter, looking for cosy corners in which to snooze, places to lay the eggs that will produce next year's insects, and feeding up whilst there is plenty to feed on.
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Wheelie bins roll-out for Birmingham to take two more years
Economic Development
Bin-makers can't keep up with demand from councils
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MPs try to get the wheels turning on safer cycling
Opinion
The standard speed limit for a built up area is 30mph although councils are free to impose a 20mph limit if they wish, and often do so near schools.
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Fracking protesters on alert in Midlands
Economic Development
The Midlands could be hit by a wave of protests over fracking as it emerged the region is at the centre of a number of applications for controversial shale gas mining.
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Birmingham crop pickers in a race against time to halt urban decay
Retail & Consumer
Mary Griffin reports on the Urban Harvest “crowdfunding†plan to get fruit out of Birmingham’s gardens and into supermarkets.
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The troubled waters along our coasts
Retail & Consumer
On and around our beaches and cliffs, and beneath the waves, spectacular wildlife is holding on in a fight against a host of damaging activities.
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Enjoy the abundance of wildlife summer brings
Retail & Consumer
Nature provides an abundance of delight and entertainment for us, whether on holiday or at home.
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Sparking interest in Electric Cars needs more than infrastructure
Opinion
Last year there were just 4,100 electric vehicles (EVs) registered in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ, while over the last three years, local authorities have spent over £7m on charging points.
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Counting on you to help butterflies
Retail & Consumer
The Butterfly Conservation is asking people to record their butterfly and day-flying moth sightings from July 20 to the end of August.
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Matchstick men, chopstick men and everything in flux
Opinion
Industrial pollution is having a grave impact on both health and public mood in China.
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Using HS2 to re-invent Birmingham
Opinion
 Professor Kathryn Moore, speaking on  'Transport and Living Futures'  delivered a lecture which was, for me, in a different league.
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Triffids in Birmingham!
Retail & Consumer
Peter Shirley is enjoying new book, The 'Flora of Birmingham and the Black Country', packed with stunning photographs, is a landmark publication for the natural environment in the conurbation.
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Re-Discovering Good Planning
Opinion
Alister Scott writes "Planning generates controversy, passion, money, winners and losers in equal measure."
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Birmingham Airport reveals vision of new runway
Economic Development
The runway would form a crucial part of the airport’s vision to expand into a global hub capable of dealing with 70 million passengers each year – equal to Heathrow’s current throughput
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Boris Johnson forms alliance with Birmingham Airport over plans to expand
Economic Development
Mr Johnson has welcomed the Birmingham proposals – because they endorse his campaign for more aviation capacity in the south without building a new runway at Heathrow
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Visit a bounty of public gardens in the West Midlands
Retail & Consumer
With the gardening season underway, get a bit of inspiration for your own back yard by visiting a bounty of public gardens open in the region.
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The importance of five years
Opinion
Dr Steven McCabe writes "If we cannot guarantee economic growth, we will be faced with the need to either raise taxes or reduce services; precisely the sort of debate that we will hear in the forthcoming general election campaign".
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Birmingham Post Letters To The Editor - Friday May 3
Economic Development
This weeks Birmingham Post Letters To The Editor on Friday May 3.
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James Leaper: Future of the office is clean and Green
Economic Development
Companies today are increasingly concerned with their environmental credentials - and rightly so.
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'LEPing' forward in spatial planning in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership
Opinion
The GBSLEP is preparing a spatial framework recognising the linkages between economic growth and good spatial planning.
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Peter Sharkey: Nike walks the walk with the Trash Talk shoe
Economic Development
At first glance, Nike's green "vision of the future" reads much like any other corporate PR - but Nike has gone beyond righteous-sounding words.
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Birmingham Post Business Awards 2012 - The Winners
Economic Development
Category winners at the 2012 Birmingham Post Business Awards, plus photo gallery.
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