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Birmingham City Council call centre slammed for delays

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT

CITY council call centre operators are using the organisation’s creaking website to answer questions while keeping frustrated residents waiting on the telephone, it has been claimed.

Birmingham's housing chief hits back at Labour claims children are risk

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:00:00 GMT

BIRMINGHAM’S housing chief is demanding the resignation of a senior opposition councillor over his claims that red tape is stopping domestic violence victims from finding secure homes in the city.

Labour fails to stall Birmingham City Council allowances plan

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:00:00 GMT

OPPOSITION Labour councillors failed in a bid to stop Birmingham City Council cutting weekend, shift and night pay for some 26,000 staff.

Council denies 'secret' plan to close 23 Birmingham nursery schools

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:30:00 GMT

EDUCATION bosses are being urged to come clean on suspected “secret” plans to close a number of Birmingham’s council-run nursery schools.

Increase in number of Birmingham children obtaining good GCSE grades still “nothing to be proud of”

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AN increase in the number of school children in Birmingham obtaining good GCSE grades is still “nothing to be proud of”, the city council cabinet was told.

Birmingham's leisure boss side-steps questions over £1 million big screen fiasco

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

BIRMINGHAM’S leisure boss side-stepped an embarrassing grilling over the city’s £1 million big screen fiasco – but served only to highlight confusion about the project.

Rejection fears blamed for Victoria Square big TV screen planning bid delay

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

A PLANNING application for Birmingham’s £1 million silent big screen has been ten months in the system because it would not be approved, it has been claimed.

Birmingham nursery shocked by council's 400pc rent rise

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT

A BIRMINGHAM nursery has been left reeling after the city council put up its rent by a staggering 400 per cent.

Sparkhill pool facelift a top priority for leisure boss

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT

THE man in charge of Birmingham’s swimming pools today insisted the rebuilding or refurbishment of a city pool was at the top of his priority list.

Handsworth sculpture green-lit by council

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT

CITY planning bosses decided beauty is in the eye of the beholder after voting through a new eye-catching sculpture dedicated to historic industrialist Matthew Boulton.