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In the same week the Birmingham Post revealed this city is the º£½ÇÊÓƵ’s start-up hotspot with more new companies setting-up here than anywhere else outside London we launched a campaign to keep one of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ’s oldest motoring names in Birmingham.

The Start Up Britain report drew on last year’s Companies House data to assess where new companies were launched across the º£½ÇÊÓƵ and .

Meanwhile, in Castle Bromwich, and in doing so saving 300 skilled jobs.

This is a true heritage brand playing its part in Birmingham’s burgeoning reputation as a centre of automotive research and development and its exit would be a massive blow for the city.

The irony here is that Dunlop Motorsport is being forced to find a new home because of the unstoppable growth of next-door neighbours its own operations.

Here’s hoping Dunlop Motorsport considers the options being put forward by Birmingham City Council and they stick around for the next 125 years.

Continuing with the heritage theme, a new city council strategy group is recommending and lay claim to being at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.

There is a feeling that as a city we don’t do enough to honour our great forefathers who built the modern world from furnaces and factories in and around Birmingham.