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New Street Gateway shops just the ticket for Network Rail and Birmingham council
Network Rail can look forward to a bumper return on the £600 million refurbishment of Birmingham New Street after trading figures revealed a sharp up-turn in spending at railway station via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1eehTDA
read more‘Our clients don’t like us, but we’re winning them over’, council building company chair insists
A building consultancy company set up by Birmingham City Council to trade with the private sector is the subject of a highly critical report 18 months after being established. Acivico via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1pih9Bz
read morewww.birmingham.gov not so bad after all, unless you are searching for the Council House phone number
There’s some good news at last for Birmingham city council’s much-maligned website. A new study proves that, for most people, it’s relatively easy to access information and order services. The via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1gQcxih
read moreWhy the mental health cop ban will serve to ‘discourage the others’
The combination of a press-friendly police commissioner with an enthusiasm for social media and a West Midlands police force where information is controlled through firm rules and procedures was always going to via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1eaiIbL
read moreBalancing the scales of Justice – @mentalhealthcop
There has been much uproar about West Midlands Police’s decision to suspend @mentalhealthcop as a result of their twitter posts complaining about budget cuts as it was against their social via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1jKhFUY
read more‘If we trust police with a truncheon, we can trust them with Twitter’ insists Commissioner
West Midlands Police Commissioner Bob Jones has said he is hopeful that the suspended @MentalHealthCop Twitter account will be reinstated “within hours” following a rapid inquiry into claims that the via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1eQebvk
read moreBirmingham council hit by £88.5m pension deficit bill as financial crisis deepens
Just when Birmingham City Council thought its financial woes couldn’t get any worse, they have. Despite public services being cut left right and centre, the council now has to find via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1dZSvNd
read moreMental Health Cop’s twitter account suspended as police chiefs take fright
West Midlands Police’s claim to be at the forefront of the social media revolution took a knock at the weekend when the force suspended the Twitter feed of an award-winning via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1j3QC7m
read moreGreater Birmingham Expects
As the Files Focus on LEPs concludes, Kevin Johnson and Paul Dale sum up the week and suggest that as well as more stretching job targets, we should expect – via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1jgfCYH
read moreTory triumph in Kingstanding by-election sends shock waves through Labour establishment
The Conservative Party has pulled off one of Birmingham’s most audacious political coups in recent years by winning a city council seat in the Labour heartland of Kingstanding. Gary Sambrook triumphed via The Chamberlain Files http://ift.tt/1f04wqt
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