
Council agrees £10,000 boost for businesses that missed out on government support
Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:49One-off grants of £10,000 will be paid to 421 hospitality and leisure businesses across Birmingham which have previously missed out on Government support or require emergency intervention to protect...

Cladding flat owners told not to talk to press
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 02:04Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval. A draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times,...

Kinaxia strengthens Midlands team to spearhead further growth
Monday, 11 January 2021 01:02Kinaxia Logistics has recruited a business development manager for the Midlands region to help drive further expansion for the group. Stuart Arms has joined Kinaxia to bring new opportunities for...

GBCC Chief, Faulkner, leaving Chamber to join Richardson family business
Monday, 11 January 2021 00:13It has been announced that the chief executive of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC), Paul Faulkner, is leaving his position and will take up a new role as chief of staff and operations...

Black Country business owners offered free expert support to get through lockdown
Saturday, 09 January 2021 05:44Business owners from across the Black Country and Shropshire are being offered free expert support to help them get through the latest lockdown. Multi-award-winning business coach, Andy Hemming, is...

Cutting police staff jobs will leave public worse off and weaken service, says UNISON
Tuesday, 05 January 2021 23:39Warwickshire Police’s plan to replace more than 80 police staff with officers will undermine the service provided to the public and isn’t value for money, says UNISON. The union’s West...

Research reveals the UK's hottest and coldest property markets of 2020
Tuesday, 05 January 2021 23:14Average house prices in Liverpool are up 15.1% since the start of the year, making it the UK’s top property hotspot in 2020, according to Land Registry data analysed by Movewise, the...

PM announces new coronavirus lockdown
Tuesday, 05 January 2021 03:23Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that everyone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February. All schools and...

New hope for first-time buyers
Monday, 04 January 2021 04:18The Government’s Help to Buy scheme, designed to help first-time buyers on to the property ladder, is changing soon, offering fresh opportunities to would-be home buyers in Birmingham, says...

Major Research Study to Assess Impact of COVID-19 on Central Business Districts
Sunday, 03 January 2021 02:50To poorly paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the office are greatly exaggerated but at the end of 2020 when ‘Zoom’ and ‘remote’ appear in the list of words of the year, there are few who...

PM Johnson urging MPs to back trade deal
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 04:22Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge MPs to "open a new chapter in our national story" by backing his post-Brexit trade deal with the EU in a Commons vote today. Parliament is being recalled to...

Living expenses remain the number one reason Brits go into debt
Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:51Almost 8 in 10 UK adults will be carrying debt into 2021, new research has revealed. And, while the average amount owed has reduced compared to the previous year, the most common reason for 2020...

Graffiti clean-up teams blitz railway over Christmas
Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:34Specialist graffiti clean-up teams have been ridding the railway of unsightly vandalism between Euston, the Midlands and the North West this Christmas. Network Rail staff in the North West and...

Nearly 3.4 million PPE items distributed to frontline workers
Monday, 28 December 2020 03:18Well over three million items of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) have now been distributed to frontline staff by the City of Wolverhampton Council since the start of the coronavirus...

Brexit negotiator call Brexit trade deal a moment of national renewal
Sunday, 27 December 2020 00:01Following the agreement announced on Christmas Eve, after months of fraught talks on issues such as fishing rights and business rules, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord...

Over-65s earn £9,200 in a year from their homes
Friday, 25 December 2020 03:27Over-65s saw their property wealth increase by more than £9,200 each on average in the past year as the housing market benefited from strong demand partly driven by the temporary Stamp Duty holiday,...