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The research claiming the deficit row could be academic
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West Midlands councils have had their budgets cut by £76 million this financial year.
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Tories hoping to wipe out memories of Solihull election losses
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It was a huge shock to the Conservative Party when it lost its iron grip on the safe Solihull seat back in 2005 when Lib Dem Lorely Burt replaced John Taylor as MP.
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º£½ÇÊÓƵIP council election success just the start, says MEP Mike Nattrass
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º£½ÇÊÓƵIP’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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Government U-turn over changes to planning policies
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Ministers were forced into a U-turn over proposals to relax planning rules over home extensions following a threatened rebellion by MPs.
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Birmingham City Council’s equal pay claims bill rockets to £890m
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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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War of words as Birmingham City Council announces £102m cuts to services and 1,000 jobs lost
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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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Plan ahead - because you can’t rely on the state in future
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The state of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ economy together with the Government deficit has placed the country's welfare system under significant scrutiny.
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Jobs 'disaster' as Walsall Council regeneration project falls through
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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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Iron Angle: Lord Adonis sticks the knife in at Lunar Society date
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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
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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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Lunar Society accused of bias in Citizen's Advice Bureau row
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A furious row over the closure of Birmingham’s Citizen’s Advice Bureau offices has led a senior councillor to claim one of the city’s most respected societies is guilty of political bias and could be heading for an internal coup.
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AWM under threat as critics gain key Cabinet posts
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Regional agencies offering support to industry face the axe after David Cameron appointed their most vocal critic to take charge of local government.
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Election 2010: The battle for Birmingham Selly Oak
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A bitter battle is being waged among candidates for Birmingham’s Selly Oak seat, writes Local Government Correspondent Neil Elkes.
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Election 2010: The battle for Birmingham Selly Oak
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A bitter battle is being waged among candidates for Birmingham’s Selly Oak seat, writes Local Government Correspondent Neil Elkes.
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Moving the goalpost
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Chris Game looks at voting patterns that couldbe a concern for the Conservative Party.
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Birmingham a model for other authorities, says leader Mike Whitby
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Local government officials from across the world are making a point of visiting Birmingham to discover how once-failing public services have been transformed, city council leader Mike Whitby has claimed.
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£90m question remains over Be Birmingham quango
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Staff from Birmingham City Council seconded to work for a £90 million local government quango cannot be named because doing so would breach the Data Protection Act, a town hall official has claimed.
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The Rooney Rule is all positive
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Positive discrimination can reduce unconscious bias as Chris Game explains, citing the United States as an example.
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Buy-to-let landlords falling behind on payments
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The number of landlords falling behind on their mortgage repayments has soared by 50% as the buy-to-let boom turns to bust.
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Councillor Mullaney cleared of being abusive towards traders
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A leading Birmingham city councillor has been cleared by the local government ethics watchdog over allegations that he behaved disrespectfully to members of a local business association.
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Aston election allegations - not a pretty sight
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Here we go again. The local government elections are looming and Birmingham's political classes are getting themselves into a right old lather over allegations of malpractice in, inevitably, Aston.
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Birmingham councillors rapped over trespass
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Two Birmingham Liberal Democrat city councillors broke the local government code of conduct after entering private property without permission, a Standards Committee has ruled.
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Council's star on the rise
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Birmingham's long slog to escape from the local government league of shame reaches a milestone today with Government inspectors praising city council services which are now consistently above minimum requirements.
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Lib Dem 'abused position' on council
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A Birmingham Liberal Democrat politician has been reported to the local government standards watchdog for allegedly abusing his position as a city councillor.
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