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More TJ Hughes closures cost 130 jobs in West Midlands

MORE than 130 West Midland shopworkers are to lose their jobs in the latest round of closures at stricken store chain TJ Hughes – triggering fury from unions.Read

Disgraced financier Gary Hexley issues apology over £2m debts

BANNED financier Gary Hexley has broken his silence over the £2 million collapse of his firm – and says he is “desperately sorry” for leaving over 200 creditors facing losses of up to £80,000.Read

Unemploymenr rate falls in the West Midlands

BUSINESS leaders have welcomed news that numbers of jobless in the West Midlands fell from March to June – bucking the national trend of a big rise.Read

Former Birmingham machete factory gets new £25m revamp

A NEW £25 million housing scheme has been launched in inner-city Birmingham – on the site of a former Victorian machete factory.Read

Leading Birmingham solicitor closes firm

A PROMINENT Birmingham solicitor “fed up with living on a shoestring” is closing her city centre practice after seven years to avoid running up more debts.Read

New Government probe into disgraced Sutton Coldfield financier

DISGRACED West Midland financier Gary Hexley is under investigation by the Government after the £2 million-plus collapse of Greenfield International left a trail of misery across the UK.Read

New cash hope for Birmingham City

CARSON Yeung’s Hong Kong newspaper the Sing Pao Daily has undergone a major shake-up – raising hopes of new investors ploughing cash into Birmingham City.Read

Disgraced financier's Sutton Coldfield home stripped out and for sale

DISGRACED financier Gary Hexley’s luxury detached home in Sutton Coldfield has been stripped out – and is currently up for sale at a cut-price £749,499.Read

Blues owners bid to raise £6 million

TROUBLED Blues’ parent group Birmingham International Holdings aims to raise £6 million though a complex financial transaction with a firm based in the British Virgin Islands.Read

Pay showdown looms at Birmingham Airport

A PAY showdown is on the cards at Birmingham Airport as unions fight for the first rise for around 600 workers for two and a half years.Read

Fears rise for 400 Midland jobs

UNION hopes are fading fast for the future of more than 400 West Midland workers as time runs out to forge a rescue deal for eight TJ Hughes stores across the region.Read

New Chinese factory creates 170 jobs in Birmingham

CHINA has issued another major vote of confidence in Birmingham – with a new £5 million factory creating 170 extra jobs in the West Midlands.Read

New cash storm over banned Midland financial adviser

A PENSIONER battling cancer told how he narrowly avoided falling victim to disgraced financial adviser Gary Hexley.Read

Birmingham's Assay Office saved

BIRMINGHAM’S historic Assay Office has been saved following a campaign to stop the Government scrapping hallmarking – safeguarding 120 jobs in the city.Read

Carson Yeung and Peter Pannu. Picture David Jones/PA Wire

Birmingham City special report: Bank won't pull plug on the Blues

BLUES fans fearing financial meltdown in the aftermath of Carson Yeung’s arrest and the freezing of his assets were reassured today: “All is not lost.”Read

Vital vote by West Midland bread drivers

A THREATENED bread strike across the West Midlands looks to have been averted after workers at a key Allied Bakeries site won a new pay offer.Read

Birmingham finance whizz-kid's £2m trail of heartbreak

A DISGRACED finance whizzkid has left a £2 million plus trail of heartbreak and misery across the UK – landing scores of investors with huge losses.Read

Birmingham canal scheme wins key support

BIRMINGHAM pensioner Terry Fogarty’s ten-year fight to speed up the city’s canals through a diagonal lock scheme has won key backing from British Waterways.Read

Prince Philip launches £32m Edgbaston development

HOWZAT! VIP guest Prince Philip declared himself well and truly bowled over by Edgbaston’s new £32 million development.Read

Midlands drinks campaign launched

A ‘WATCH your drinking’ initiative is being launched in bars across the Midlands – giving pubgoers the chance to tot up immediately alcohol units consumed.Read

Author Profile

Jon Griffin has been Business Editor of the Birmingham Mail since 1998. He began his career at the Peterborough Evening Telegraph in 1975 then worked from 1978-79 for the Birmingham Evening Mail. He later joined the Coventry Evening Telegraph as a trainee sub-editor then the Wolverhampton Express and Star from 1980 before rejoining the Mail in April 1996.