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Jon Griffin

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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

West Midland ex-miners get memorial

HUNDREDS of ex-miners who worked at a colliery are being sought to add their names to a permanent memorial to decades of Midland underground history.Read

Video: New look Edgbaston cricket ground ready for royalty

THE covers are about to come off the biggest redevelopment in the near 130-year history of Edgbaston – following a mammoth £32 million investment.Read

More High Street casualties predicted

MORE High Street retailers are on the verge of collapse as the consumer spending squeeze intensifies, say West Midland insolvency experts.Read

£5 million youth centre approved for Longbridge

A NEW multi-million pound youth centre has been approved as a key project for the redevelopment of Longbridge despite major cuts facing Birmingham’s youth service.Read

Site of legendary Birmingham club rises from ashes

THE former home of legendary Birmingham rock venue Edwards No 8 has risen from the ashes – with a major £3 million restoration.Read

Redditch coach firm collapses

ONE of the Midlands’ longest-established coach firms, Redditch-based Hardings, has closed after crashing into administration – with dozens of workers facing the scrapheap.Read

Historic Aldridge firm goes bust

A UNIQUE 140-year-old Midland firm has gone bust, plunging the futures of 62 workers into uncertainty.Read

400 TJ Hughes workers in West Midlands face race to save their jobs

MORE than 400 West Midland workers are facing a race against time to save their jobs after 100-year-old department store chain TJ Hughes collapsed into administration.Read

Take That at Villa Park: The story behind the Big Yellow Man

MOVE over Robbie – Take That have a gigantic new star, and he’s 100 per cent Brummie through and through.Read

Black hole fears over Birmingham City finances

BLUES could face a financial blackhole if Carson Yeung is found guilty of money laundering and stripped of his 23 per cent stake in the club, it has been revealed.Read

Looking back: The day 10,000 strikers marched on Saltley

FLYING pickets, secondary action, 47 per cent pay claims, three-day weeks and power cuts were the order of the day in the West Midlands back in 1972 when Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath took on the might of the miners.Read

Jaguar XF launched at Castle Bromwich as China sales soar

CHINESE dancers brought a touch of Eastern promise to Castle Bromwich – to help launch Jaguar’s newest model, the Jaguar XF.Read

MG Motor UK cuts losses dramatically

LONGBRIDGE has drastically cut its annual losses from over £12 million to just £392,000 as the rebirth of Birmingham’s most famous factory gathers pace.Read

Birmingham businessman branches out into ethical travel

A BIRMINGHAM businessman who ploughs all his firm’s profits into conserving African wildlife in memory of his late wife has branched out further – into ethical travel.Read

Two top Midland hotels up for sale

TWO of the Midlands’ best known hotels are looking for new owners after 42 Marriott outlets were caught up in the collapse of an offshore property company.Read

300 DIY jobs face axe at Tamworth

MORE than 300 Midland workers face the axe with the imminent closure of the region’s main distribution centre for collapsed DIY chain Focus, it was revealed today.Read

Midland post offices face closure warns MP

POST offices throughout the West Midlands will close with “devastating” job losses and the six-day-a-week service jeopardised by government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.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.