From the Birmingham Mail: BIRMINGHAM City Council is hoping to slash gas and electric bills for householders and businesses by setting up its own energy supply business. The local authority wants to use its clout as a wholesale energy buyer and solar power generator to offer gas and electric to the city’s 440,000 homes and

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } More than 26,000 staff at Birmingham City Council are being given the opportunity to volunteer for redundancy. A trawl of the entire non-schools workforce is underway as Britain’s biggest local authority prepares to cut £330 million from its budget. The unprecedented exercise was approved by council leaders who are nervously awaiting the

An Employment Tribunal in Birmingham today found in favour of 1400 women represented by the GMB union in their equal pay claims against Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in the land and run by a Tory Administration. The Tribunal will now go on to assess the level of award to the women which

Birmingham City Council is celebrating winning funding from a Government initiative designed to bring local Government decision making closer to people.

This is a case study from a finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2008. Awards category 11) e-Government excellence: For sustainable, 'green IT' or 'carbon-efficient services'. Sponsored by KPMG.

So Birmingham City Council are looking to freeze council tax at 1.9% this year and plan to keep it there right up until 2018 whilst pursuing an “aggressive cost-cutting programme aimed at eliminating waste”. But while many will view this...

I see that Birmingham City Council has decided to abolish apostrophes from its road and street signs. Obviously simple punctuation is beyond them. So St. Paul's Square , which presumably has been St. Paul's Square for centuries, will become St Pauls Square, which doesn't actually make any sense. Womble On Tour is quite passionate about grammar and punctuation, and tries to explain i...

Despite increasing their middle-management spend by over £11million in just one year (alongside the raft of six-figure salary directors on their payroll) it was revealed today that Birmingham City Council will spend no less than £67m on consultants and advisors...

In a bid to help bridge the e-Safety gap between school and home, three Local Authorities including England’s largest, Birmingham City Council, have partnered with Forensic Software Limited, manufacturers of the e-Safety product Policy Central Enterprise (PCE) to offer all parents of school age children within its jurisdiction a free e-safety product for in-home use.

Politicians from all four parties on Birmingham City Council have called on the Council leadership to pursue a policy of instituting sanctions against Israel. The call, for a boycott of Israeli goods and services, was initiated by Cllr Salma Yaqoob, Leader of the RESPECT Party, and supported by Tariq Khan (Deputy Leader of the Liberal