81 years since D-Day
Officials from Allied nations joined a handful of elderly veterans today to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings which led to
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Bike Week: ‘Cycle-safe streets for WM’
A growing peloton is mobilising ahead of national Bike Week to push for cycle-safe streets across Birmingham, Wolverhampton and beyond. Next week, June
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Cov MP’s school meal joy
Coventry MP Taiwo Owatemi today welcomed the “transformative” news that 20,000 children in her city are being added to the list of those
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Thames Water: ‘Shambles’
To no one’s great surprise, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), the American private equity firm, has decided against throwing Thames Water a
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£380m of loans to WM firms
Of £5bn in loans from the British Business Bank to boost small and medium-sized firms, £380m has gone to companies in the West
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MP: Protect single-sex spaces
Bromsgrove MP Bradley Thomas is backing a parliamentary motion protecting biological sex-based spaces. This comes after the recent UK Supreme Court ruling that
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Anti-abuse art at stations
Artwork opposing violence against women and girls is being installed at five West Midlands railway stations. The art, by local illustrator Emma Kaye,
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‘22,000 WM jobs to go’
Labour’s tax changes will see 22,000 jobs go across the Werst Midlands, new research reveals today. The Government billed its autumn budget as
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‘700 jobs from Games legacy fund’
The lives of 800,000 residents have benefited from £13m of Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games legacy funding, it was claimed today. Grants of between
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Macaw Security: ‘Boring’ is best
Steve Hands and his fellow ex-Royal Marines pal Matt Fisher set up Macaw Security Solutions in 2018 with the aim of being as