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Selly Oak

Parking wars break out on Birmingham streets
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Furious Edgbaston residents protest as roads become clogged with cars
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Birmingham plans to triple number of city cyclists by using canal towpath network
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£6.3 million plan goes before the council’s cabinet next Monday to make Birmingham’s canal network accessible to cyclists
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Watchdog slams Government's regional economic growth policies as Chancellor delivers statement
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The National Audit Office has criticised the Government's regional growth plans as Chancellor George Osborne announced measures to back high streets and cut youth unemployment
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Laura Mvula wins creative prize at Hot Women Awards 2013
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Birmingham singer songwriter honoured at Red Magazine event in London
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International interest in city life science push
Economic Development
Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore said inward investment body Marketing Birmingham had been inundated with interest
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Nine swimming pools and leisure centres to close in Birmingham
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Six new centres to be built and put out to tender for private operators
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Business rates hitting recruitment plans, claim chambers of commerce
Economic Development
Firms say soaring business rates are stopping them from recruiting after it was revealed they will jointly pay an extra £14.7 million next year.
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Call for more BBC production despite investment
Economic Development
MPs campaigning for more BBC investment in the city welcome £23.5m boost, but want more
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New £6.8m University of Birmingham biomedical hub to open next summer
Economic Development
The facility will offer laboratory and office space for growing biomedical businesses in a move expected to create 600 jobs
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Birmingham NHS walk-in centres 'safe in short term'
Economic Development
Birmingham health boss has pledged there are no plans to shut the city’s walk-in centres in the ‘short to medium’ term.
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Boost to campaign for more BBC investment in Birmingham
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MPs campaigning to get the Midlands off the bottom of the pile for BBC investment expect progress in weeks
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Birmingham children's services spared from cutbacks
Economic Development
Child protection service budgets will remain ring-fenced at a time when all other council services are facing drastic restructuring to accommodate major cuts
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Sacked nurse loses race row tribunal with Good Hope Hospital
Economic Development
Auriel Nyemitei-Addo claimed she was unfairly criticised after a death from a rare brain virus
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Jobs boost as charity Sense reveals plans to build £12m centre in Birmingham
Economic Development
Sense is building a new centre in Selly Oak in a major boost for plans to grow the city’s life sciences sector
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Huge rise in pay for temporary social workers
Economic Development
Agency staff with at least two years’ experience picking up£41.23-an-hour
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Council claims win over Sainsbury's in Lapal Canal battle
Economic Development
Councillors claim "playing hardball" with supermarket giant led to canal regeneration work
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Battery Park Sainsbury's scheme gets the green light
Commercial Property
Plans by the Harvest Partnership - a joint venture between Land Securities and Sainsbury’s - have been approved by Birmingham City Council
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Selly Oak redevelopment will not include canal, say Sainsbury's and Land Securities
Commercial Property
Partnership says it cannot develop the Battery Site and Lapal canal area, as demanded by council.
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Birmingham singer-songwriter Laura Mvula on her rise to fame
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham singer-songwriter Laura Mvula talks to Alison Jones about her rapid rise to fame.
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Birmingham social workers being lured away with £10,000 'golden hellos'
Economic Development
Birmingham’s head of children’s services has revealed that workers are being tempted by councils, including nearby Sandwell, offering huge payouts to join them
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Sainsbury's development put on hold over claims scheme 'not good enough for Birmingham'
Economic Development
The city council’s planning committee unanimously voted to defer the plan for a Sainsbury's store, a medical sciences business park, shops and students flats on the derelict Battery Park site in Selly Oak
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A major sense of betrayal
Opinion
There is a major sense of betrayal over the way the Harvest Partnership seems to have reneged on pledges to restore part of the Lapal Canal and pay £6 million towards the construction of the Selly Oak New Road.
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Sainsbury's hits back at opposition to new Birmingham store
Economic Development
Supermarket bites back after criticism of "swindling" city out of key work
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Sporting push welcomed as Birmingham lags behind in Olympic legacy
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City council plans to bid for prestigious events, including the World Indoor Athletics Championships
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