MINISTERS have vowed to press ahead with controversial voting reforms to end the fraud that led a judge to compare Birmingham to “a banana republic”.Read
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has sacked Birmingham MP Liam Byrne from his senior post leading Labour’s policy review and replaced him with a London MP with close links to trade unions.
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AN INNER city Birmingham MP has made an outspoken call for nine men responsible for abusing girls as young as 13 to be deported after serving their sentences – even if they are now British citizens.Read
CHILDREN who need new families are forced to spend two years in care before moving in with adoptive parents in Birmingham, ministers have revealed.Read
A DIRECTLY-elected mayor could still be created to run Birmingham even though voters overwhelmingly rejected the idea in last week’s referendum, Ministers have revealed.Read
MINISTERS have denied secretly approving plans to close rail ticket offices across the West Midlands after a leaked e-mail from government officials claimed the closures were going ahead.Read
THE battle to become Birmingham’s first directly-elected mayor was blown wide open when former cabinet minister Liam Byrne announced he wants the job.Read
EVERY young person should be guaranteed a job if they are unemployed for more than two years, the Government’s official inquiry into last summer’s riots has recommended.Read
PRIME MInister David Cameron was under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into the “cash for access” scandal last night, after he appointed a Conservative peer to lead an investigation.Read
AN official report into riots which led to the deaths of three people in Birmingham has been condemned by an MP – who compared it to BNP propaganda.Read
HOME Secretary Theresa May has stepped into the row over controversial police “privatisation” plans – praising the West Midlands force for its “innovative” proposals.Read
Liberal Democrat Birmingham MP John Hemming has urged the chancellor to delay plans to introduce bitterly contentious “local pay” deals in Wednesday's budget.
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