Simon Evans

Editor
Simon is a former Press Association news wire journalist. He has worked in comms roles for Thames Water, Heathrow, Network Rail and Birmingham Airport.
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Worcester Warriors back to pro rugby

Worcester Warriors will re-enter professional English rugby at the start of the 2025/26 season, the club said today. The Warriors will join the

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Life Sciences

Plasma: saving lives with ‘liquid gold’

The NHS Plasma Donor Centre on New Street, Birmingham, is one of just three such facilities in the country – and it’s making

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Environment News

Emergency powers used to collect bins

Thousands of tonnes of uncollected household waste will start being removed today from Birmingham streets after the city council said it was deploying

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Business News

“Robust” Q3 results for JLR

Jaguar Land Rover has posted a “robust” set of results for Q3 of FY25 as prime minister Keir Starmer seeks to persuade his

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News Viewpoint

Youth Demand’s PR gift from Met

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Who’d be a police officer in 2025? The court of public opinion is weighing up

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Environment News

Streets of bin-strike Brum … spotless

Take a walk through Birmingham’s central business district and you’d be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about. Glass-fronted financial services

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Business News Tech

Driver-less shuttles at NEC

Autonomous vehicles are being trialled at the NEC in Solihull.  Visitors are being offered lifts on the self-driving shuttles during busy events. The

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Environment Politics Viewpoint

Reports don’t fix potholes

Talking a good game. Blagging. Spouting hot air.  Nothing is more infuriating than politicians and bureaucrats blame-shifting and giving breezy platitudes about how

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Viewpoint World Affairs

We must be more Finnish

We Brits are a miserable bunch. Not helped by an incessant flow of negative headlines and social media outrage. Our smartphones, even our

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Business News Tech

JLR creates 150 EV jobs

JLR is hiring 150 maintenance technicians in the West Midlands to work on creating electric versions of all its vehicles. This news comes

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