MG Rover Trust Fund member Carl Chinn today branded a four-year delay in payouts to 6,500 ex-Longbridge workers “ludicrous” – as the Government inquiry grinds on.Read
LEVELS of the most serious violent crime in parts of the West Midlands have rocketed by as much as 53 per cent prompting a renewed police crackdown.Read
CONSERVATIVE Party leader David Cameron told Midland hospital campaigners during a visit to the region that improving the National Health Service remained one of his top priorities.Read
A royal slice of history is set to be unveiled in the Midlands as a piece of Queen Victoria’s daughter’s wedding cake goes up for sale at the NEC Antiques for Everyone fair this week.Read
An unemployed Algerian chemist was jailed yesterday for nine years for contaminating food and wine by spraying his own urine and faeces in supermarkets.Read
Leading Birmingham Liberal Democrat city councillor Martin Mullaney begins a one-month suspension from public duties today after losing a high court battle over a publicity stunt.Read
Businesses in Solihull plan to boost town centre trade with a £500,000-a-year business improvement district to stave off the threat from other towns in the region.Read
IT may have taken an hour longer than expected for Soldier to reach the stage, but that didn’t deter them from producing a clinical performance, lapped up by a wholesome congregation.Read
RETIRED school teacher James Bayliss said: “It’s a good idea to have a completely new coin, but not a note. Like many people, I can’t tell the difference between a real or counterfeit coin, but a coin is still better.”Read
FOR some reason that escapes me some commentators are still calling the current economic situation a “downturn,” rather than the recession that it is.Read
THOUSANDS of parents across the West Midlands are set to benefit from new rules surrounding flexible working, meaning local businesses need to act, a city employment lawyer has said.Read
THOUSANDS of parents across the West Midlands are set to benefit from new rules surrounding flexible working, meaning local businesses need to act, a city employment lawyer has said.Read
FOR some reason that escapes me some commentators are still calling the current economic situation a “downturn,” rather than the recession that it is.Read
BIRMINGHAM CITY shareholder Ralph Gold has earned himself a £56.5 million windfall after selling his stake in the Ann Summers sex shop chain – to brother David.Read
Professor Chinn, one of four trustees, voiced his anger after revelations that the state investigation set up in summer 2005 has now racked up a bill of more than £14.8 million, with no end in sight. The delay in the inquiry has left up to £16 million pledged to former MG Rover workers marooned in a bank account, scuppering potential payouts of five figure sums for ex-employees.Read
BIRMINGHAM CITY shareholder Ralph Gold has earned himself a £56.5 million windfall after selling his stake in the Ann Summers sex shop chain – to brother David.Read
FOR some reason that escapes me some commentators are still calling the current economic situation a “downturn,” rather than the recession that it is.Read
THOUSANDS of parents across the West Midlands are set to benefit from new rules surrounding flexible working, meaning local businesses need to act, a city employment lawyer has said.Read
