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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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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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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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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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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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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Forecast: 1.6% annual growth for Brum
Birmingham and the West Midlands will see steady growth over the next three years, according to EY’s latest regional economic forecast. GVA (gross
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Syria: Lammy’s measured tone is wise
According to some estimates, as many as 1,500 mainly Shia Muslim Alawites have so far been killed in Syria’s Latakia and Tartus provinces
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Lions squad for Australia?
As the Six Nations ends, talk turns to who will make the British & Irish Lions squad for this summer’s three-Test series in
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Barristers on 100km Sahara charity trek
A bevy of Birmingham-based barristers will next week trek 100km across the Sahara Desert in a bid to raise £100,000 for a leukaemia