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Beleagured Birmingham City Council's relief at Eric Pickles' team of trouble shooters

Worries that Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles would send some politically motivated gung ho character to stride into town like a new sheriff in Dodge City to clean up the Council House have to some extent been allayed.

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Murder trials, cheap suits and a hotline to a bygone era

The passing of former Birmingham Post crime reporter Harry Hawkes at the age of 86 marks another severance of a link to an era routinely viewed as a golden age for newspaper journalism.

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Time for real change to address inequality

Frequently change is driven by a plethora of headlines based on reports based on data showing why it should happen.

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Want to know what ��ƵIP believe? Read their manifesto pledges

��ƵIP's 2014 manifesto has been delayed, but we can look at what Nigel Farage and his colleagues were promising last time

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Sky announces extension to broadcast deal

As Sky announces extension to broadcast deal, some counties are crying out for new schedule which will help boost their profile.

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Birmingham doesn't always have to go for the bull's eye to win

Rebalancing the economy of the ��Ƶ has become the new orthodoxy among all political parties. Rebalancing back towards more manufacturing, certainly.

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Debate over architecture is vital - even if some of it grates

Buildings, both internally and externally, are the physical setting for our lives, and for better or worse, their design directly affects all of us.

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No apology for being sick of apologies

The culture of mob rule via social media is starting to irk Birmingham Post columnist Jon Griffin

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Polls' worrying message for the Midlands' Tories

Polling data suggests Nigel Farage's ��ƵIP party could rob the Tories of seats in the West Midlands, and help Labour.

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Eric Pickles' shadow looms ominously over Birmingham's beleaguered council chief

Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore has spoken of a "sword hanging over them" in the form of Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles

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Chris Game: Who will go in this year's General Election?

Despite this Parliament running its full five-year term, far fewer MPs will retire than in 2010.

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Examining the productivity dilemma

Contained within the Office for Budget Responsibility's analysis of last December's Autumn Statement there is an assumption that productivity will rise steadily to reach 2% by 2019.

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Jaguar steps up the Pace

The firm has already invested £1.5 billion in the Solihull plant to enable it to increase production and said this week its workforce there had almost doubled over the past three years to around 9,500

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The future could be mediocre without some radical thinking

Some experts are already signalling that markets could crash this year, with professional investors heading for the exit

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Birmingham schools are pretty good - so why the flak?

Birmingham has a lower proportion of residents with level 4 or above qualifications (23 per cent) than England and most comparator areas.

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General election throws a spanner in the works for Sir Albert's cabinet

Labour leader Sir Albert Bore is as nailed on a certainty as you can get to retain his Ladywood seat for another four years, but the same cannot be said for some of his cabinet colleagues.

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Dickens of delays as the little men lose out yet again

For the uninitiated, iSoft became a byword in Birmingham and further afield for a financial morass.

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��Ƶ car sales boom in 2014, set to peak in 2015?

The surge in ��Ƶ car sales last year even caught the Society of Motor Manufacturers (SMMT) on the hop, and it had to raise its forecast for 2014 sales growth from 6% to 8%. Even that was eventually surpassed.

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Andrew Whitehead: It's beginning to look a lot like biomass

Drax Power is the operator of the second largest coal power station in Europe, and has an ambitious corporate strategy, based on gradually converting a number of its generating units to become predominantly a biomass-fuelled power generator reliant on wood pellets in place of coal.

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Take a bow after a year of ups and downs in Birmingham

A year of ups and downs for the city's political leader as Neil Elkes takes a sideways look at those deserving an award

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Prince Charles re-enters the planning debate

Planning is about building quality places for us all. I remain concerned that the present planning agenda is neglecting issues of affordability, environmental and social justice and we urgently need to have planning principles that are inclusive and egalitarian.

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The enduring appeal of pantomime at Christmas

One tradition that many families indulge in during the festive season is a trip to the theatre to see a pantomime.

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National Planning Policy Framework School Report: 48% Could do much better

The media is alive with the sound of planning policy again as the Communities and Local Government Select Committee publishes its report looking into the operation and impact of the National Planning Policy Framework.

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Another blow for Rolls-Royce workers at Ansty

It's correct to say that Rolls-Royce faces a number of major headwinds in terms of military defence expenditure cuts, a perceived global slowdown, appreciating currency, and sanctions on Russia which will impact on its business there.

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