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Peugeot Citroen to cut 90 jobs at Coventry HQ
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French car making giant Peugeot Citroen is to cut 90 jobs at its Coventry headquarters.
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Neil Elkes on a combined authority
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Greater Birmingham via the back door: 'West Midlands' or 'Mega City One'... it will make no difference eventually, argues Neil Elkes
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Lawyers - a help or hindrance in tackling Climate Change? - Part 2
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The legal sector is a significant employer globally and our workforce is our principal asset.
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David Bailey on a combined authority
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David Bailey assesses the impact of the news that the West Midlands could be following Greater Manchester's footsteps and setting up a combined authority
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Super-rich Norway has pulled plug on Winter Olympics 2022 bid
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Oslo was the prospective venue for the Winter Olympics in 2022, before the Norwegian government decided against the £2billion investment.
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Time to abandon the concept of "Greater Birmingham" once and for all
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It would be silly if the long-sought after goal of greater unity within the West Midlands is put at risk because of hang-ups over a name.
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Queen's Jaguar Land Rover visit masks a pensions storm in waiting
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An internal shop stewards document was released accusing Jaguar Land Rover of "investing millions around the globe on the back of the sweat of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ workforce" while gorging on profits of £10 million a day.
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Winning Chinese Investment - Focusing on scale and proximity might be the keys
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Both in the Midlands and across the º£½ÇÊÓƵ we need to find some means of bulking up materially for the economic relations with Chinese city regions Liam Byrne aspires to be delivered.
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Steven McCabe: Existential musings
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Human beings have always had a curiosity about what the planets they could actually see consisted of coupled with, I strongly suspect, a belief that other forms of life looking back at them.
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Peter Sharkey: Ashes Test match special for city with a fortune forecasted
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Edgbaston Stadium and Marketing Birmingham announced that next year's Third Ashes Test could provide a boost in excess of £26 million to the local economy.
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Do not believe the rumours - our banks are open for business
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Barclays launched its Accelerator initiative to offer a three-month start-up programme for new businesses.
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MP John Hemming is often a beacon of truth
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Many have doubted Birmingham MP John Hemming's causes - until he is proved right.
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The MG Rover Phoenix Four must cough up
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The Phoenix Four have finally run out of excuses, and they are about to pocket another million quid each from the wreckage of the car crash that they presided over at MG Rover.
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The sorry legacy of MG Rover's Phoenix Four
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John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards became the unacceptable face of capitalism with the closure of MG Rover nearly ten years ago after racking up debts of more than £1 billion.
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Lawyers - a help or hindrance in tackling Climate Change? - Part 1
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Many commercial law firms have specialist energy, environmental and regulatory practices, and benefit a great deal from increased environment compliance activity.
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Steven McCabe: Sex, drugs and exit from the EU?
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One of the reasons our GDP has increased is because of almost £10 billion extra being included to account for the sex and drugs trade estimated to be worth some £5.3 billion and £4.4 billion respectively.
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Peter Sharkey: Bid to give football fans a greater say in how clubs are run
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Politicians want supporters involved in ownership and decision-making
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Joe Holyoak: Ordinary architecture can be out of the ordinary
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Big, expensive architecture was in the news as the Library of Birmingham lost out in the Stirling Prize.
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Jonathan Walker: Time to think the unthinkable on councillors' pay
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Holding down a job and being a councillor leaves precious little time for the other important things in life.
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Birmingham City Council's Forward publication over steps the mark with highly political content
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Criticism, the £600,000 cost of publication, and tensions within the former Tory-Lib Dem coalition led to Birmingham City Council's Forward publication being axed as a regular newspaper in 2009.
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Supermarket giants have only themselves to blame for decline
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Retail giants Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Asda have forgotten what made them successful in the first place, and are ignoring the needs of the customer.
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Birmingham bids to shed 'Cloak of Invisibility' in moves to Combined Authority
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Solihull, apparently due to its difference in political colour, is more reluctant to throw its lot in with the Labour-run metropolitans.
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David Bailey: Just how far will JLR's drive into China go?
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Jaguar Land Rover has opened its new assembly plant in China through a joint venture as it targets a key emerging market for car sales
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Peter Sharkey: Cycle stars on road to riches as big sponsors up the ante
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New €1m prize pot idea just the beginning of cycling's resurgence
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