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Queen's Speech: "A blueprint for those who want to work hard"
Economic Development
A crackdown on immigration and measures to boost the economy were at the heart of the Queens Speech as the Government set out its legislative programme for the next 12 months.
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Memorial to wartime 'Bevin Boys' unveiled in Staffordshire
Economic Development
A memorial has been dedicated to the thousands of men who worked in British coal mines during the Second World War, known as Bevin Boys.
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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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Council leader Sir Albert Bore to quit as Birmingham hospitals chairman
Economic Development
Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore is to stand down as chairman of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, according to reports.
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ƵIP council election success just the start, says MEP Mike Nattrass
Economic Development
ƵIP’S West Midlands Euro-MP has called on the main political parties to wake up and take notice after the anti-EU party gained its first local council seats – winning a quarter of the vote nationally.
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Noddy Holder heads back out onto the road
Retail & Consumer
Noddy Holder was just seven years old when he stood up on stage at a working men's club to sing.
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Neil Elkes: What price the city jewels?
Economic Development
Former Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby set a few hares running some years back when he suggested that some of the city's assets could be sold to wealthy Arabs.
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West Midlands hospitals missing A&E waiting time targets
Economic Development
The number of patients forced to wait hours for treatment has shot up at many West Midlands hospitals, official figures have revealed.
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Russell Luckock: Strikes loom - but it could be worse
Economic Development
As our nation commemorates the life of one of the most remarkable women of our times, Margaret Thatcher, the strident sounds of war drums are heard from some of this country's leading unions.
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John Clancy to challenge Albert Bore for Birmingham council leadership
Economic Development
A Labour backbencher has launched his second bid to become Birmingham City Council leader with a pledge to get the city building and invest in small businesses.
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John Clancy: A new municipal bank may pay off for our region
Economic Development
Regional development banks and municipal banks have been at the heart of my calls over the last 16 years for radical reform of banking.
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Birmingham MP Liam Byrne battles Labour left over welfare reforms
Economic Development
One of Labour’s most senior MPs in the Midlands is at the centre of a major row with activists and union leaders after he refused to vote against the Government’s “workfare” plans in the Commons.
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Lack of social care blamed for rise in bed blocking in Birmingham
Economic Development
The number of patients stuck in hospital unnecessarily has shot up by 70 per cent in Birmingham in the past year, official figures have revealed.
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Birmingham's old Queen Elizabeth Hospital reopened in beds crisis
Economic Development
Patients are being sent to an obsolete hospital dating to the 1930s – because the £545 million superhospital built to replace it cannot cope.
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Birmingham City Council’s equal pay claims bill rockets to £890m
Economic Development
The cost of equal pay claims has rocketed by £130 million – leaving Birmingham City Council facing a colossal £890 million bill.
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Council leader dismisses MP's HS2 'dumping ground' claim as 'hypocrisy'
Economic Development
A council leader in Warwickshire has attacked an MP’s claims Labour would “dump” a maintenance depot for high speed rail in the county.
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War of words as Birmingham City Council announces £102m cuts to services and 1,000 jobs lost
Economic Development
Birmingham city council leader Sir Albert Bore stressed his commitment to job creation and economic growth as he announced a budget of swingeing cuts.
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Rich List 2013: No.7 - Peter Coates (£840m)
Economic Development
Recession or no recession, people are still ready to spend money on gambling.
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Jobs 'disaster' as Walsall Council regeneration project falls through
Economic Development
Plans to create 4,000 jobs by regenerating 37 acres of derelict industrial land have suffered a setback after a deal to sell it fell through.
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A warm welcome to our city for Comrade Pickles
Economic Development
It’s not often that Labour and Conservative politicians can appear side by side in public without one trying to outdo the other.
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40 years on from the miners' battle of Saltley Coke works
Economic Development
Jon Griffin marks next month’s 40th anniversary of a Birmingham industrial dispute which signalled the beginning of the end for Prime Minister Ted Heath.
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Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley 'hired nazi uniform for groom', claims report
Economic Development
Staffordshire MP Aidan Burley has been sacked from his role in the Department of Transport despite apologising for attending a stag party where the groom dressed as a Nazi and toasts were made to the policies of Hitler.
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Iron Angle: Lord Adonis sticks the knife in at Lunar Society date
Economic Development
One doesn’t want to name drop, but it seems like only yesterday that I joined city council leader Mike Whitby in the office of then Schools Minister Lord Andrew Adonis to talk about Birmingham’s exciting plans to turn several under-performing schools into new city academies.
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Post Comment: Lord Adonis and the home truths
Economic Development
In delivering the annual Lunar Society lecture, Lord Adonis reminded us of some timely, but highly uncomfortable, facts about the state of Birmingham in 2011.
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