Business owners’ Budget warnings
Many West Midlands businesses will cut jobs or even relocate overseas if Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget fails to address key economic pain.
Business News
Politics
People
Politics
Renters face squeeze before rule change
Labour’s new renters’ rights act hailed as landmark – but experts warn of short-term pain for tenants Renters could face higher costs and.
Business News
Development
Finance
Base rate held at 4%
Elevate Property Group welcomes MPC’s interest rate decision The boss of a high-end Midlands property developer today welcomed the Bank of England’s move.
Politics
Viewpoint
Labour’s sleepwalk into irrelevance
The party that should be stopping Reform is instead fuelling its rise There are moments in political history when a government’s weakness becomes.
Jobs
Politics
Mayor to get 93,000 working
‘West Midlands Works’ seeks to lower WM region’s unemployment rate by 5 percentage points by 2035 West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker has unveiled.
Birmingham
Transport
Probe into railway near miss
Shunter at Washwood Heath had to leap clear of approaching train An investigation is under way into a near miss on the railway.
Business News
Energy
Wolverhampton
Tomato Energy goes bust
Electricity retailer Tomato Energy today announced it has gone bust after many months of failing to get its spiralling debts under control. Today’s.
Business News
Culture
Solihull
Vinyl rock shop opens
Knowle gets niche music shop run by former mental health nurse A rock and heavy metal-loving former NHS mental health nurse is opening.
Politics
Transport
HS2 and the great illusion
How speed obsession derailed Britain’s biggest infrastructure story When the history of Britain’s 21st-century infrastructure is written, HS2 will not be remembered as.
Leadership
Politics
Viewpoint
We need leadership, not management
I wanna believe Rachel Reeves, but I’m having trouble – and I think I’ve worked out why The Chancellor’s been out warming up.