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High fibre breakfast for Chamber of Commerce
Post People
Ultrafast fibre was the main item on the menu at a business breakfast briefing hosted by Openreach’s chief executive, Clive Selley, and Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.
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New plans for multimillion-pound rail innovation hub
Engineering
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is working with Warwick Manufacturing Group to develop a new hub to revolutionise very light rail technology
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Review of 2017 - November: Paradise walkway reopens, £250m for Metro and museum funding drive
Longbridge
After being closed for two years, the walkway under the old Central Library building reopened in November while Theresa May announced £250 million worth of funding to improve transport in the West Midlands
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Review of 2017 - September: Midland Metro extension, council leader quits and HMRC chooses new Birmingham base
Birmingham City Council
More details of the city centre extension to the tram network were revealed in September including the exact locations of five new stops while city council leader John Clancy quit following the fallout from the bin strike
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Review of 2017 - August: Bin strike halted, new transport chief and council watchdog steps away
Midland Metro
There was a fragile ceasefire in August as the bin strike which had gripped the city was halted and Mayor Andy Street recruited a new transport chief to oversee the stream of major projects planned over the next few years
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Review of 2017 - July: Channel 4's move, Library of Birmingham on a stamp and investor sought for Smithfield
Jewellery Quarter
The campaign to bring Channel 4 to the West Midlands was officially launched in July and the Library of Birmingham featured in a new stamp collection
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Review of 2017 - January: Commonwealth Games, green belt housing and Colmore Row makeover
Midland Metro
Our Review of the Year for 2017 kicks off with the news London Olympics bosses were recruited to help Birmingham secure the Commonwealth Games and Sutton residents were battling developers
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We want West Midlands firms to work on our tram lines say Midlands Metro bosses
Midland Metro
The Midlands Metro Alliance, working on a series of tram line extensions, wants 80 per cent of suppliers to be based in West Midlands
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Birmingham office market has 'everything to play for'
Invest in Birmingham
Jonathan Carmalt from JLL assess the future for the city's office market as work on HS2 gets going and the squeeze on supply starts to ease
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Review of 2016 - March: £13m office facelift, new Aston Martin and major Eastside regeneration
West Midlands Police
A major masterplan to bring new commercial and civic space to Birmingham's Eastside was unveiled this month while sports car brand Aston Martin showcased its latest new DB model
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Innovative online careers platform for young launched
Post People
More than 60 guests from business, education and the public sector attended the launch of PLANit Global
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Midland Metro appoints new director to lead tram extensions
Midland Metro
Alejandro Moreno will spearhead new alliance as it embarks on a decade of work to expand the West Midlands' tram network
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London Midland signs new transport partnership
Midland Metro
Rail operator says it will work with new body Transport for West Midlands to deliver more improvements to local services
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Birmingham 'better placed' to survive Brexit fallout than rival cities
EU Referendum
City's economic and development chief says the city will weather the storm created by the EU referendum
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Midland Metro tram named after Ozzy Osbourne
Midland Metro
Legendary Black Sabbath singer will be in Birmingham this week to see the tram named in his honour as countdown begins to opening of long-awaited metro extension
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º£½ÇÊÓƵ investors 'most prominent' in Birmingham
Colmore Row
Almost 60 per cent of property transactions carried out in the city have been done by º£½ÇÊÓƵ-based institutions
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New Street offices to undergo £13m facelift
Birmingham New Street Station
Home of Boots and Bella Italia to benefit from massive revamp which will shift main entrance to Stephenson Street side to connect with tram extension
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Birmingham City Council director Waheed Nazir placed in charge of economy
Birmingham City Council
The man who spearheaded a series of major regeneration schemes has been promoted at the city council
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Review of 2015 - November: City council vision, Metro extension and delays hit Park Regis
Midland Metro
Radical plans emerged in November to break up Birmingham City Council, it was announced the full Metro extension would not open until 2016 and the Park Regis hotel opening was put back by six months
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Review of 2015 - July: Land Rover Defender, Christopher Wray regen and Google's boost for library
Lasan
Land Rover revealed this month it would continue production of its Defender into 2016, a new future was unveiled for some of Birmingham's oldest houses and tech giant Google offered a helping hand to the beleaguered Library of Birmingham
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Plans for rail lines, cycleways and Metro extensions agreed by chiefs
Birmingham city centre
Movement for Growth sets out plans to extending the Metro, a wider Sprint bus network and train lines in Castle Bromwich, Moseley and Kings Heath
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Expansion for Rex Johnson and Sons - months after owner considered shutting down
Birmingham city centre
Rex Johnson and Sons, which has been run by the Johnson company since 1973, has invested £100,000 to double the size of its Corporation Street store
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Midland Metro extension will complete in 2016
Centro
Transport body Centro said first phase to Bull Street would open in December but work on the rest of the new line to New Street station would be scaled back to minimise impact on the festive period
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Birmingham feels the squeeze as South East dominates us all
Birmingham city centre
Gap between economic power of London and the rest of the country is laid bare
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