FOI reveals huge scale of waste at Birmingham City Council Monday, 19 January, 2026 A freedom of information request released by Birmingham City Council last week has confirmed the scale of waste and potential savings that could be used to help balance the council’s books and clean up the city. For the last decade, Birmingham Local Conservatives have been bringing forward alternative budgets calling on the council to reduce spending on consultancy, legal services, recruitment and... Articles
Council falls short on budget yet again as overspends continue to mount 13th November 2017 Only in March Birmingham's Labour administration called the 2017/18 budget the ‘most analysed and scrutinised budget that has even been put before the Council’... Local News
Labour Mismanagement Costs Young Brummies £15m Additional Skills Funding 20th October 2017 A report to Cabinet on 24 October shows how Council procurement failings have cost the City region £15m in skills funding at a time it is badly needed. The... Local News
Conservatives welcome PM's commitment to allow Grammar Schools to expand 20th October 2017 The Conservative Group on Birmingham City Council welcomes the comments from Prime Minster Theresa May and School’s minster Nick Gibb, reaffirming the... Local News
Gary Sambrook slams fire safety failings of Birmingham's tower blocks 16th October 2017 The BBC has broadcast an 'Inside Out' documentary, detailing ‘completely avoidable’ and serious failings in the fire safety of Birmingham’s tower blocks... Local News
Protest demands Labour Council drops plans to move to fortnightly refuse collections 2nd October 2017 Ahead of the Labour Council Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a protest has been held demanding that the Labour Cabinet axe their plans to adopt a new waste strategy... Local News
City Auditors Slam Labour Administration's Poor Value For Money 26th September 2017 As a part of the annual audit, the City's external auditors are required to make a judgement as to whether the Labour administration delivers value for money to... Local News
Fortnightly bin collections are not good enough! 22nd September 2017 With the strike action for waste collection currently suspended whilst the Labour Council and Unite the Union battle it out in court, for the next six weeks at... Local News
Birmingham Conservative group responds to High Court ruling 20th September 2017 The judge was today asked to rule in what he has described as an ‘unusual’ and ‘very remarkable case’ resulting from an ‘internal rift within the council.’... Local News
Cowardly Clancy cancels cabinet 31st August 2017 The Labour leader of Birmingham City Council has cancelled the Cabinet meeting planned for Sept 1st which was due to resolve the bin strike in Birmingham. This... Local News
Prime Minister’s address to the nation on booster jabs 12th December 2021 Boris Johnson addressed the nation on the need for all of us to get our booster jabs. National News
Home Secretary: Backing the Bill on illegal immigration 8th December 2021 Read Priti Patel's speech on illegal immigration in full here. National News
