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Graeme Brown

Graeme Brown is the Editor, New Audience at Birmingham Live

Expansion for Harborne pub as traditional local takes on new form
Harborne
Extra space brings different offerings and more jobs to The Plough in Harborne
Teams bid to win Engineering YES challenge
Post People
Engineering YES held its seventh national final at Faraday Wharf on the Innovation Birmingham Campus.
Magical evening for retail property agents
Post People
London & Cambridge Properties (LCP) held its annual social event, in conjunction with the Shop Agent Society (SAS).
Droitwich dinner event celebrates area's food producers
Post People
St Andrews Town Hotel in Droitwich hosted a celebration dinner which showcased the best of the area’s food producers and suppliers.
Two new Walkabout Australian bars in West Midlands after sale
Broad Street Birmingham
Après Bars Solihull and Lichfield will be refurbished and re-open as Walkabouts in September –  in time for the Rugby World Cup
Jacobs Engineering to create jobs on back of HS2 move
Engineering
International company expects to grow its Birmingham workforce by around 140 staff with the potential to create hundreds more jobs
Asian Network staff to strike over BBC Birmingham production cuts
BBC
Staff have been angered by shows being moved out of Birmingham, following the likes of Coast, Countryfile and Hairy Bikers, which are all no longer produced here
Q&A: BBC Birmingham boss Joe Godwin gets real on funding
BBC
The former BBC Children's boss has had a baptism of fire in his new role heading up BBC Birmingham. Ahead of it starting to recruit for 100 HR jobs at The Mailbox, Mr Godwin spoke to head of business Graeme Brown about its future in the region and the Post’s demands for half of money raised in the Midlands to be spent here
West Midlands unemployment falls to lowest level since 2007
Employment
Joblessness falls in the region, despite a º£½ÇÊÓƵ-wide rise, to lowest point for eight years
Recruitment drive as HydraForce moves into new Birmingham plant
Engineering
The firm now plans to almost double its workforce to 500 in the next three years after relocating to the 120,000 sq ft purpose-built facility
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
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
Cost of climbing West Midlands property ladder rises £35,000 in five years
Lloyds
New research shows those already on the property ladder are seeing above-inflation costs of climbing it
New campaign to protect thousands of pubs from closure
Economic Development
The Campaign for Real Ale is targeting 3,000 pubs in England for listing as so-called Assets of Community Value
Jaguar Land Rover's China sales slump
Jaguar Land Rover
Economic slowdown in Far East powerhouse has affected Midlands car-maker with sales dropping to just under 22,000
Lawyers on board after Central RPL takeover completed
West Bromwich
The corporate team at Higgs & Sons has assisted Boing Boing Group (BBG) on its acquisition of Reliant Products, which trades as Central RPL
Joe Richards' fruit and veg empire nears sale after entrepreneur's death
Economic Development
Experts appointed to oversee the sale of the fruit and vegetable retail chain bearing his name said they were confident of a quick disposal
Output rises - but optimism falls - for West Midlands businesses
BDO
BDO’s Output Index rose to 104.4 this month, up from 104.1 in July, which indicates growth in business activity
City design talent showcased at Birmingham Made Me awards event
Post People
Birmingham's influential professionals gathered at Millennium Point to recognise some of the city's leading talent in design and innovation at the Birmingham Made Me awards
Value-seeking rich help to boost growing Poundland
Walsall
Midland retail giant Poundland has opened its 600th store - after being boosted by growing sales from Britain's wealthy
Staff-owned manufacturer Alloy Wire invests £700k in expansion
Economic Development
Alloy Wire has invested to increase capacity amid a target of reaching £10 million of annual sales by 2016
Lifford chairman quits over 'personal vendetta' in BID campaign
Business Improvement District
Robert Grosvenor hits out at process which 'spread ill feeling' among companies ahead of key vote on whether to establish business improvement district in south Birmingham
Assay Office moves to new Jewellery Quarter home after 137 years
Jewellery Quarter
Famous marking office which was founded by renowned industrialist Matthew Boulton in the 1770s starts new chapter in purpose-built HQ
Go-ahead for giant housing scheme on old golf course
Housing
Green light for proposals for new homes on the 60-hectare former Tamworth golf course could help with a housing shortage in the region