NIGHT shifts are being reintroduced for thousands of workers at Land Rover’s giant Solihull factory in a major vote of confidence in demand for new models, it was revealed today.Read
LDV’s Russian owners GAZ said today they had “exhausted all possibilities” in the fight to save the van-maker in another apparent huge nail in the coffin for 7,000 UK jobs.Read
APPRENTICE finalist Yasmina Siadatan spent part of her childhood in the West Midlands staying with her Iranian father and his harem of three wives.Read
A BIRMINGHAM postman with a gambling debt who stole letters addressed to his estranged wife and failed to deliver thousands of items of mail has been given a two-year community order.Read
Colleges have been told to scale down multi-million pound expansion schemes and warned funding for rebuilds were unlikely in the latest twist to the further education funding crisis.Read
DOUBTS persisted today over whether troubled Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle would be fit to perform live in Birmingham on the first night of a spin-off national tour.Read
A MAJOR campaign has been launched across inner city Birmingham to help patients cut down on medicine wastage which costs the NHS at least £100 million every year.Read
DESIGNS for Birmingham’s £58 million state-of-the-art Olympic swimming pool and sports centre have been met with a mixed response from residents and sports clubs.Read
A BIRMINGHAM businessman owed around £50,000 following the collapse of Bloxwich Engineering has seen his losses double – when the firm’s new owners also went bust.Read
With the UK facing a shortfall in electricity production by 2015 due to projected economic growth and life expectancy of existing power stations, coal will play an important role in generating electrical power.Read
