In a bid to help bridge the e-Safety gap between school and home, three Local Authorities including Englands 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.
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PublicTechnology on 20th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
When Birmingham Council announced that the regeneration of the Bull Ring and the rest of Birmingham's city centre would make the place unrecognisable, I guess the people of Birmingham hadn't got this in mind.
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NorfolkBlogger on 14th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
When Birmingham Council tried to instil pride in recycling efforts, it had the clever idea of sending out 360,000 flyers showing the city skyline. Unfortunately the leaflets, saying: 'Thank you, Birmingham,' actually had a picture of Birmingham, Alabama, on them.
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Ordovicius on 14th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Birmingham City Council admits sending out leaflets which showed its US counterpart's skyline by mistake.
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BBCPolitics on 14th Aug 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
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...
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TaxPayersAlliance on 18th Feb 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
There's been a great deal of fuss generated over a picture mistake in a Birmingham City Council leaflet. Apparently, the graphics designer responsible opened an online folder of Birmingham West Midlands images and picked one that looked nice but had been misfiled as it was of Birmingham Alabama in the USA. Yet no one up the food chain, with increasing levels of responsibility and pay was able...
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GallimaufryChips on 14th Aug 2008 (via listeningblogger.blogspot.com)
One of the biggest mass demonstrations seen in Birmingham for years was being staged by city council workers this afternoon. Trade Unions were expecting up to 1,000 council employees to pack Victoria Square in the city at lunchtime in a protest over swingeing pay cuts.
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LabourUnionDigest on 14th Jul 2008 (via tinyurl.com)
If you can't tell the difference between these two pictures Then you are either work for Birmingham City Council or you are a Tory MEP. A leaflet from Birmingham City Council thanking residents for recycling actually carried a picture of Birmingham, Alabama - a fine city, no doubt, but not significantly responsible for recycling in Birmingham, UK. Rather than putting their hands up and admitting a...
The Conservative leader of Birmingham City Council is a buffoon. Just how embarrassed must his fellow Tories be (and the Lib-Dems with whom he has a cosy coalition) about this proposal.... Council leader tells Aston Villa: Call yourself Birmingham. How to upset the football supporters of both Aston Villa and Birmingham City at the same time. Coun Whitby said: "Aston Villa is one of Birmingham'...
Today The Stirrer followed up on a story reported there yesterday about children at Birmingham schools having their fingerprints taken in order to eat a school meal. The website became aware of the procedure after being contacted by a parent...
First we had central government mistaking Newcastle-Under-Lyme for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, now Birmingham City Council has gone one better and failed to recognise their own city. If you live in Birmingham you will be receiving – or may have already received –...
