Proposals

Clothes hanging in shop Picture: Getty

Lib Dems want 1p tax on every new item of clothing

Perry Barr Stadium housing development announced - plans in pictures

Kings Heath (Photo - Google Maps)

City council to crack down on street drinking, gangs in Birmingham

Virgin Media O2 will cut up to 2,000 jobs

Virgin Media O2 to cut more than a tenth of UK workforce

Bathhouse at Sydenham Place, JQ, CGI also showing mineral pool from a different angle. Source: MOST

Grade II listed Jewellery Quarter could turn into bathhouse

Millions of patients in England will be able to get prescriptions for seven common conditions, plus the contraceptive pill and more blood pressure checks, directly from pharmacies under new plans to tackle the GP crisis in the UK.

Pharmacies to offer prescriptions for 7 new conditions amid GP crisis

Pope Francis allows women to vote in bishops’ meeting for first time

Birmingham city centre

Brummies react to plans to slash car use in Birmingham

Birmingham City Council Transport Plan

Birmingham city centre to become traffic free in radical council plan

landlords may soon be given more power to deal with anti-social tenants

Landlords to be given extra powers to evict ‘anti-social’ tenants

129 Cineworld venues face risk of closure

The 129 Cineworld cinemas at risk as chain struggles to find buyer

Full list of places that will see a council tax increase in April 2023

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day

Leading UK vet calls for outright ban on owning dogs with cropped ears

British passport prices are set to rise next month

Passport application fees to increase next month

Reading, writing, maths and science fell significantly

Hundreds of Birmingham primary school reception year places to be cut

West Midlands Railway

New train plans for East and West Midlands

Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman addresses delegates on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference. Credit: Getty Images

Home Secretary plans to crack down on protests with new bill

Edgbaston Reservoir

Edgbaston Reservoir campaigners are holding a Good Friday protest