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Firms call for ban on Chinese steel imports
China
Trade body Ƶ Steel said Business Secretary Sajid Javid should spearhead immediate European action on anti-dumping measures
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Birmingham Labour MP to urge ethnic minorities to vote 'no' to Europe
European Union
Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood is to lead a campaign to convince the Ƶ’s black and ethnic minority voters to leave the European Union
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Seven Birmingham green tech companies share £70k in new funding
Technology
Group will use fresh injection of capital to continue developing low carbon businesses and accelerate launch of products to market
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West Midlands steel taskforce calls for action over Chinese imports
China
The Midlands Steel Task Group, which hosted its inaugural meeting last week, called for immediate action to support steel producers
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Midlands Steel Taskforce set up over 260,000 job fears
Birmingham City University
Business leaders, academics and economists will meet to thrash out a strategy to support steel-reliant manufacturers
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Clive Reeves PR treads on familiar ground with client win
European Union
Birmingham-based agency has won a brief from the European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers' Association to run a trade PR campaign
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Theresa May under fire over immigration comments
Theresa May
Birmingham MP Steve McCabe slams the Home Secretary as she claims immigrants have stolen thousands of jobs across the Ƶ
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Making M6 Toll free will cost estimated £15m a year, leaked documents reveal
Birmingham Airport
A leaked wishlist for West Midlands authority also reveals plans to host World Expo 2025 and proposed rise in business rates
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Midland scientists research into refugees' experiences
University of Warwick
Experts at the University of Warwick will attempt to understand better the journeys made by migrants across the Mediterranean Sea.
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Jaguar Land Rover: We don't use software to cheat diesel emissions tests
Jaguar Land Rover
Company makes statement in wake of America Volkswagen scandal
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Birmingham passengers are owed up to £1.7m in flight compensation
Birmingham Airport
Approximately 56,000 Brum holidaymakers were affected by flight disruptions this year while jetting off on their summer breaks from Birmingham Airport
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Tom Watson's challenge is to heal Labour
Labour Party
Black Country MP Tom Watson, the favourite to become Labour's deputy leader, is trying to heal a party divided by a brutal leadership contest
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West Midlands' exports continue to grow
ƵTI
Region exported four times as many goods to China as any other area while overall rates grew by 3.6 per cent in last quarter
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Midlands 'should be like Scotland or Wales' for BBC
BBC
MPs have urged the BBC to make the Midlands its principal focus after ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland teamed up to negotiate the new charter
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Pro bono Birmingham lawyer wins lorry driver's licence back
European Union
A driver was able to get back on the road because of a lawyer who recently joined the Birmingham office of Mills & Reeve and No 5 Chambers
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Slovakia latest weapon in JLR's global mission
Jaguar Land Rover
After a battle between several eastern European nations, David Bailey examines the impact following Jaguar Land Rover's decision to open a new plant in Slovakia
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Jaguar Land Rover unveils Slovakia factory plans
Jaguar Land Rover
The automotive giant has signed a letter of intent with the Slovak government over a plant in Nitra to be operational by 2018
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This energy policy is on a new course sunshine
Environment
In a politically “hot” and highly regulated sector such as energy, market certainty is what investors value more than anything else.
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Jaguar Land Rover thought to be eyeing Poland or Slovakia for new factory
Jaguar Land Rover
The move comes as the Midland car-maker continues its rapid growth amid plans to almost double production to 1.5 million vehicles a year
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Poland or Slovakia in the frame as JLR ups ambitions
Jaguar Land Rover
Prof David Bailey assess Jaguar Land Rover's potential move into Eastern Europe by setting up a new base there
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Midland manufacturers are most confident in the Ƶ
EEF
The annual report provides a longer-term picture of the state of Ƶ manufacturing
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Land Rover Defender production set to run on into 2016
Jaguar Land Rover
In January Land Rover announced a year of celebration to mark the final year of Defender production at its Solihull plant
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Why allowing the public to have their say is not always a good idea
Politics
Calls for a referendum on a combined authority are misguided as direct democracy only works when the public are fully engaged
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Public services in Birmingham are in decline, but is improvement on the way?
Birmingham City Council
The city council's annual performance report threw up the sad fact that 62 per cent of key targets were missed in 2014/15 - Neil Elkes looks at the issues
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