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Welcome to the Princess Royal

Princess Anne gave the royal seal of approval to the new multimedia home of the Birmingham Post and Mail during a special visit this week. The Princess Royal toured the newspapers at Fort Dunlop following a pounds 15 million relocation from its former city centre site.

From This ... To This ... ; John Griffith, Managing Director of Bpm Media (Midlands) Lauds the Remarkable Transformation of One of the City's Most Iconic Buildings and the New Home for Bpm Media

ort Dunlop has provided a fabulous new home for BPM Media, the new name for the Birmingham Post and Mail. Our name change signals the beginning of a new era as a multi- media publisher - and our new home reflects that new era also.

The Heart of the Tyre Industry ; Chris Upton Looks Back at the Origins and History of the Mecca of Tyremaking for the World

B irmingham's industrial growth was always based on its ability to take raw materials from elsewhere - iron and brass and precious metals - and turn them into something more 'valueadded'. And what was true of the metal industries was equally true of more natural ingredients such as rubber. What could be made of that sticky and pliable substance, of course, lay in the eye of the industrialist and his workers.

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Birth of a Regional Daily Newspaper ; Chris Upton Recounts the History of the Region's Bestloved Newspaper Brands: The Move to Colmore Circus

T he Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail have, like a comfortable and familiar settee, been fixtures in the city's living room for a century and a half. But, like the sofa in your own living room, they have not always been in the same place, and not always looked as they do now. Indeed, Birmingham's newspapers have been in a state of constant flux ever since the day, in 1741, when Thomas Aris launched the first of them.

Scheme to Get Long-Term Unemployed Into Work

A groundbreaking project born in the heart of Birmingham is taking a different approach to the problem of long-term worklessness and is due to save the tax payer more than pounds 1m in just nine months. The Connection to Opportunities (C2O) project, which has been developed by the East Birmingham North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns), gives local companies access to a bespoke professional development mentoring and coaching programme that will help them support the long-term unemployed once ...

Ebns Helps Fazeley Studios Launch with the Promise of 500 Jobs

Digbeth welcomed its latest home for the digital and creative industries recently, with the official launch of CFNX's impressive Fazeley Studios development. Advantage West Midlands, working in partnership with the East Birmingham North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns), invested gap funding of pounds 2.2m into making the visionary scheme possible.

Kirkbride Fights for Her Future

Tory MP Julie Kirkbride was fighting for her political future last night as it emerged that local Conservative activists would decide whether she should step down when she faces them at a meeting in Bromsgrove. The embattled Worcestershire MP said she wanted to stay in her post and defended her expenses claims yesterday after Conservative leader David Cameron warned that she must explain herself to the public.

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What: The penultimate performance of La Boheme Where: The Birmingham Hippodrome, Hurst Street Details: A new production of Puccini's opera is planned for the near future, so this is your last chance to see the adored WNO classic. The opera contains one of the most famous of Puccini's arias - Your tiny hand is frozen.

Why Can't Kirkbride Admit That She Did Something Wrong?

Reports that MP Julie Kirkbride has employed a relative, or allowed one to live rent-free in her home, are froth which distract attention from the real issue. So are suggestions that her situation is fundamentally different to that of her husband, Andrew MacKay, who has announced he is standing down as an MP.

Spend Now to Put Midlands On Right Road ; Birmingham Post Comment

Threat to transport - page 14 Plans to build hundreds of thousands of homes in the West Midlands have sparked lively debate.

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BUSINESS NEWS 4-10 GM in crisis Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has held talks with General Motors bosses about a financial contribution to secure car maker Vauxhall as takeover talks continue . Page 4 Battle against debt As the region battles with the highest rates of unemployment in the country and the number of those out of work looks set to climb well into 2010, Anna Blackaby looks at the impact this is having on those struggling with high levels of consumer debt in the West Midlands. P...

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Tata Loan Deal ; Update

Tata said yesterday it had successfully concluded a deal to amend the terms of the bridging loan it took out to buy Jaguar Land Rover last year. The Indian industrial group said it had extended the final maturity of a $1 billion loan by 18 months to December 2010.