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Paul Dale

Paul Dale

Labour will not save Birmingham’s controversial Central Library

LABOUR has dashed hopes it would save Birmingham’s controversial Central Library if the party gains power next May.Read

Another 1,200 jobs set to be axed by Birmingham City Council

ANOTHER 1,200 Birmingham City Council jobs are likely to disappear next year along with a £65 million cut to services as the local authority wrestles with a huge black hole in its budget.Read

Birmingham City Council plans to launch lottery to help fund services

BIRMINGHAM could get its own version of the National Lottery to help the city council escape from its financial woes.Read

Birmingham City Council's credit rating better than USA

IT IS safer to lend money to Birmingham City Council than the United States government, according to a leading firm of financial analysts.Read

£20 million revamp plan for NIA

A £20 MILLION makeover has been promised for Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena.Read

Birmingham commuter route into city centre to get a £2.7 million upgrade

The A45 Coventry Road will become the city’s fourth red route – with a tough zero-tolerance approach to illegal parking.Read

Birmingham City Council in hunt for new £155k-a-year children's social services director

Interviews for the £155,000-a-year job are expected to take place in November and December.Read

Vulnerable children are still being let down, admits Birmingham social services troubleshooter

THE troubleshooter hired to sort out Birmingham children’s social services has admitted that vulnerable youngsters are still being let down.Read

More Birmingham tower blocks to be demolished

ANOTHER eight of Birmingham’s sub-standard tower blocks will be razed to the ground in a £26 million housing demolition programme.Read

Call for council tax rise to save fire service jobs

COUNCIL tax payers will need to stump up millions of pounds to help to help save the jobs of firefighters, the region’s fire authority chairman has said.Read

Birmingham City Council's pledge on leisure centre charges

ADMISSION charges at Birmingham swimming pools and sports centres will not “go through the roof” if the facilities are taken over by private operators, the city council’s leisure chief has insisted.Read

Birmingham City Council to sell prominent empty office buildings to raise funds

CASH-STRAPPED Birmingham City Council is planning to raise money by selling several prominent empty office buildings.Read

Parents egged on gang of vandals to smash up Birmingham's Highbury Park

A GANG of young boys seemingly amazingly egged on by their parents smashed a Victorian viewing platform used by Joseph Chamberlain causing at least £50,000 damage.Read

Trade union official who refused to condemn rioting yobs on Birmingham's streets is in hot water with his bosses

Matt Raine, a Unison representative at Birmingham University, said he sympathised with young people who went on the rampage.Read

Ordinary Brummies say riots were not in our name

DEFIANT Brummies launched a fightback against the mob violence that brought destruction to city centre shops.Read

Birmingham union official refuses to condemn violence in city

A BIRMINGHAM trade union official and political activist, who said he sympathised with rioting yobs, has refused to condemn violence in the city.Read

Sparkbrook school wins fight to expand

Council planning chiefs admitted they had no idea until recently that the Birmingham Muslim School did not have formal approval to operate at the old Bisley Works in Golden Hillock Road, Sparkbrook.Read

Twitter organises riot clean up in Birmingham

Defiant Brummies launched a fightback against the mob violence that brought destruction to city centre shops on Monday night.Read

Birmingham city centre violence: Most involved under 18 years old, say those who watched it on CCTV

DEPUTY city council leader Paul Tilsley issued a blunt warning to troublemakers in Birmingham city centre: “You will be caught and prosecuted.”Read

2am update: More than 100 arrested after night of anarchy; Handsworth police station set on fire

EIGHTY SEVEN people have been arrested after the violence which has blighted parts of London emerged in Birmingham city centre.Read

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Paul Dale has been writing about local government in the West Midlands for more than 20 years. The Post's public affairs editor, he is a previous political editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph and Local Government Correspondent of the Oxford Mail.