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Games Village planning application submitted
Birmingham’s plans to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games stepped up another gear today with the submission of the Planning Application for the residential element of the Games Village.
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Family fun at the Lord Mayor’s Show
This year’s Lord Mayor’s Show returns to Cannon Hill Park on Sunday 19 August with a fun-packed, family friendly event from 11am to 4pm.
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Book celebrating city women to be launched at Birmingham Literature Festival
A new book created by and celebrating inspiring Birmingham women and their achievements will be launched at the 2018 Birmingham Literature Festival in October.
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Working together in Birmingham’s neighbourhoods – share your views
Birmingham spans a broad and diverse range of neighbourhoods, which include hundreds of community groups and local organisations.
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Birmingham celebrates four years to go until the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Today (Friday 27 July) marks four years to go until the start of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
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Birmingham shortlisted for Channel 4 headquarters
Channel 4 (C4) has announced that Birmingham has made the final stage of the pitch process to host its new national HQ
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3,000th new home built for Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is celebrating the completion of the 3,000th home built through its award-winning house-building programme, Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT).
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Birmingham's Frankfurt Christmas Market 2018
The city’s internationally renowned Frankfurt Christmas Market returns on 15 November 2018.
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Children's rights celebrated across Birmingham schools
Birmingham schools, from nursery through to secondary, are embedding children’s rights into daily school life through the Unicef Rights Respecting School Award.
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Have your say on community cohesion in city
Simplistic analysis of community cohesion in Birmingham fails to recognise the complexity of a super-diverse city according to the Cabinet Member with responsibility for the topic.
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Birmingham 2022 Chair is appointed
The Prime Minister has appointed John Crabtree OBE as the Chair of the 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
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Average speed camera plan for Middleway corridor
Plans are being drawn up to install average speed enforcement cameras along a stretch of road in Birmingham where six people lost their lives last year.
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Dartmouth Circus works set to begin
Work to carry out essential maintenance and improvements to one of Birmingham’s busiest road junctions is set to begin next week.
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Helping young people into adulthood
A plan to support and improve the outcomes of young people with additional needs has been approved by the city council’s cabinet
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Birmingham comes in to bloom
Birmingham City Council and the Housing Liaison Board are calling on all green-fingered council tenants and leaseholders, as they launch the annual Birmingham in Bloom competition.
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Birmingham City Council publishes Kerslake Stocktake report
Birmingham City Council today publishes an Improvement Stocktake Report outlining the current position in relation to it achieving the improvements recommended by Lord Kerslake in December 2014
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A hat trick of housing heroes are recognised in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council (BCC) is celebrating after a highly successful evening at the prestigious 2018 Housing Heroes Awards in Manchester last night.
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Sports playing pitch strategy is published
Protecting the existing supply of sports playing pitches, enhancing them and providing extra new sites wherever possible are the key themes underpinning a new strategy to promote sport at all levels.
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Clean Air Zone consultation plans to go before Cabinet
Cabinet is being asked to give the go-ahead for the council to consult on plans to reduce air pollution in Birmingham and protect the health of those who live and work in the city.
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Cabinet member wants to red card domestic abuse
Statement from Cllr Tristan Chatfield, Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion, Community Safety and Equalities on domestic abuse during the World Cup.
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Council secures further £1.3m boost for cycle and pedestrian improvements
Plans are being drawn up for further safety measures to benefit cyclists and pedestrians at an Edgbaston junction after Birmingham City Council successfully bid for £1.3 million of Government funding.
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Children's social care in Birmingham makes further progress
An Ofsted report has found Birmingham Children’s Trust ‘has made further progress in improving the quality of services for young people leaving care'.
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Birmingham secures nearly £1m funding to boost integration
Birmingham City Council has received a share of the £19 million funding pot, in the latest allocation from the Controlling Migration Fund (CMF), announced today (8 June 2018).
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Weather update: heavy rain forecast
A number of areas across the city experienced flash flooding over the bank holiday as a result of extreme weather conditions, with some areas receiving a month’s rainfall in the space of an hour.
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Flooding update – 28 May 2018
Following yesterday’s extreme weather conditions, in which an average month’s rainfall fell within the space of an hour, a number of areas across the city have been affected by flash flooding.
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New Lord Mayor to support health and wellbeing charities
Birmingham’s new Lord Mayor, Cllr Yvonne Mosquito, has taken up office after the Mayor Making ceremony at the Council House.
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Windrush garden scoops seventh Chelsea Gold for Birmingham
Birmingham City Council has scooped Gold at the Chelsea Flower Show for the seventh year running for a display recognising and celebrating the legacy of the Windrush Generation.
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Council’s Cabinet line-up confirmed
Birmingham City Council’s new Cabinet has been announced.
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City pupils to open Windrush exhibition at the Library of Birmingham
Birmingham school children will meet members of the Windrush generation, as they open a community exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Empire Windrush’s arrival in Britain, this week.
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RAF Cosford to receive the Freedom of the City
RAF Cosford will receive the Freedom of the City of Birmingham during a special ceremony in Victoria Square on Saturday (19 May 2018).
