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HS2: new driver needed

  • 29th August 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Burnham, Andy Street, Cllr Ian Ward, Featured, HS2, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Is the Oakervee Review “welcome”, “frustrating” or the end of the line for HS2, asks Kevin Johnson? It was no surprise to see Andy Street prosecuting a positive take on

Dawn goes Down Under

  • 11th July 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr Robert Alden, Councils, DCLG, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
It might appear that Birmingham city council changes its chief executives more regularly than its bins. News that Dawn Baxendale is leaving the local authority after little more than a

130 years on – a council with lessons still to learn

  • 17th January 2019
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Featured, Kerslake Review, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore
This week, Birmingham has been marking 130 years as a city. It has much to celebrate – looking to both history and the future. But, as Kevin Johnson writes, the

C4 disappointment must lead to focus on skills and local investment

  • 2nd November 2018
  • Andrew Howell
  • Andy Street, Arts, Cllr Ian Ward, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, WMCA
Channel 4’s decision to move to Leeds underlines the need for a long term commitment to creative industries development in the West Midlands, writes Andy Howell in the second part

Location, Location, Location: Leeds wins Ch4 commission

  • 31st October 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Cllr Ian Ward, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills
Leeds will be the location of Channel Four’s new National HQ as Birmingham misses out. Bristol and Glasgow will be the locations of its two new Creative Hubs, reports Kevin

Where was the Mayor’s John Hancock?

  • 18th September 2018
  • Chris Game
  • Andy Street, Birmingham, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Councils, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Transport, west midlands combined authority
In the West End district of Boston, Massachusetts, there’s an unremarkable brownstone apartment building with a remarkable address: 42, Lomasney Way.  Remarkable, because No. 42 isn’t in the middle of

COUNCIL: High Noon for Ward?

  • 14th September 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, Birmingham City council, birmingham independent improvement panel, Cllr Ian Ward, Councils, Featured, Kerslake Review, News, Partner Posts
A botched attempt to conclude an industrial dispute effectively brought Cllr John Clancy’s short tenure as council leader to an end. Now, a row with another union and a protracted

West Midlands to become UK’s first large-scale 5G testbed

  • 4th September 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Cllr Ian Ward, Devolution, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
The West Midlands has been selected to become the ‘innovative home’ to the UK’s first multi-city 5G test bed. The multi-million pound trial of new high speed connectivity will pave

Brum makes 4’s top 3

  • 23rd July 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Andy Street, Birmingham, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Birmingham has been shortlisted but Coventry loses out as Channel 4 confirms it is to progress advanced negotiations with three cities across the UK as part of the process to select

Council: ‘time is running out,’ but when?

  • 29th June 2018
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Birmingham, birmingham independent improvement panel, Cllr Ian Ward, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, Lord Kerslake, Opinion, Partner Posts, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore
“Time is running out and we need to see real progress.” So says John Crabtree OBE, chair of the Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel (BIIP), on Birmingham city council in its
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