Updated 12:34pm 26 May 2012

Powered by Google

Mike Olley

Mike Olley: Weasel words hide NHS devastation

BIRMINGHAM and Black Country hospitals face massive cuts, that’s a fact.Read

Mike Olley

Mike Olley: Truly valuing our heroes

ANY visit to the United States will underscore the fact that ex-service personnel are very much welcome.Read

Mike Olley

Mike Olley: West Bromwich is an area that's now up-and-coming

SANDWELL council leader Darren Cooper, recently introduced 2,500 “snow champions” to the borough.Read

Mike Olley

Could planners send Subway City under?

OUR local democracy is a truly wonderful thing.Read

Mike Olley

We're not 'all in it together'

DAVID Cameron stated clearly last August that “we are all in it together”.Read

Mike Olley

The markets need to stay

COUN John Clancy made a great point last week at the council meeting.Read

Mike Olley

Dishonesty at new level

I AM a lucky fellow with four delightful kids to my name. The first two are doing very well indeed, Leah is carving a successful career for herself as is Josh. The twins, Harry and Michael, are going great guns.Read

Mike Olley

Give public a real say

AS A former Birmingham councillor I often attend full council there.Read

Tories sapped UK's energy

I SERVED my time as an apprentice gun-maker at the BSA at the back end of the 1970s.Read

Mike Olley

Rob heralds rebirth of Royal town

THE Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield may well become a reality again.Read

Mike Olley

Good work, but bad ties

I FIND council leader Mike Whitby a nice guy. Leastways he always laughs when I greet him as “Comrade Leader”.Read

Mike Olley: Andrew Mitchell's excellent work for overseas aid

MY LABOUR Party mates often fidget with discomfort when I write about Andrew Mitchell.Read

Mike Olley

Chico and pals just want a better deal

I WAS standing in Victoria Square with a pal bemoaning the protesters’ tents.Read

Mike Olley

Peter's got bright ideas

COUNCIL planners are largely an ignored bunch until you want something off them. Then they can provoke mixed feelings.Read

Mike Olley

BBC cuts bad news for us

COUNCIL leader Mike Whitby rightly described it as “a slap in the face”.Read

Mike Olley

Tikka leaf out of our book

LEADING councillor Tim Huxtable was in Manchester last week for the Tory party conference. He very kindly agreed to update me on events there.Read

Mike Olley

David's big debt deceit

A YEAR or so ago Labour had just selected Ed Miliband as leader of the party. This was a drawn-out process that probably did more damage than good. Locally in Birmingham we know how to elect Labour’s leaders. Swiftly with Albert Bore always winning.Read

Mike Olley

Nick's taking them to ruin

I FELT anger and sorrow during Nick Clegg’s closing speech at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham last week.Read

Mike Olley

Time to right a jobs wrong

A LIVERPOOL hospital gave the game away the other day when they published an application for a top job.Read

Mike Olley

Terrible trio of axe men

BY ANY measure it’s difficult to knock the manner in which councillors Whitby and Tilsley have looked after Birmingham.Read