From Ambridge baby to Birmingham Conservative Leader: Alden calls on BBC to keep The Archers in its home city His first contribution to The Archers was as a baby.
Response from Birmingham Local Conservatives Group Leader Cllr Robert Alden to the release of the 1991 Dr Jesson report - These horrific crimes, and the institutional failures surrounding them, are a stain on our city.It is welcome that this report is being published, but publication cannot be
Birmingham Local Conservatives have welcomed the announcement that Birmingham will be included in the national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs, following sustained calls for the city’s historic and current cases to be fully investigated.Councillor Robert Alden, Leader of the Conservative Group
This weekend saw our city and region celebrating Warwickshire County Cricket Club’s momentous county championship win. This is their ninth title in all and first since the Covid-affected 2021 season. Leader of the Birmingham Conservatives Cllr Robert Alden has therefore written to the Lord
The cost of Birmingham’s bin strike has reached £32.4 million, according to Birmingham City Council’s 2025/26 Provisional Revenue Outturn report.The report shows the dispute has cost the council:£8.3 million in lost income.£14.4 million in one-off co
A cross-party call for Birmingham to be included in the national inquiry into grooming gangs has been backed by MPs from both the Conservative and Labour parties. The joint letter, signed by Birmingham Conservative Group Leader Cllr Robert Alden, Sutton Coldfield MP Sir Andrew Mitchell and Birm
Three major bin strikes in the past decade have damaged Birmingham’s reputation and contributed to the Council’s financial problems following Labour’s £750 million Equal Pay liabilities arising from the 2017 bin strike settlement.ITV’s latest revelation that Birmingham City Council prepared a report
With Birmingham City Council having a new administration made up of Lib Dem, Green and Independent Councillors and 65 of the 101 Councillors on the Council being newly elect, only the Local Conservatives have the experience and knowledge to stand up for residents and hold the new administration to a
Green-Lib Dem-Better Brum Independents coalition scraps weekly bin collectionsThe Green-Liberal Democrat-Better Birmingham Independent coalition, backed by a Reform Councillor at the recent AGM, has abandoned one of its clearest promises to Birmingham residents by pushing ahead with Labour’s plan to
LOCAL CONSERVATIVES CALLS ON NEW LIBERAL DEMOCRAT-GREEN LEADERSHIP TO SAVE WEEKLY BIN COLLECTIONSCouncillor Robert Alden (Con, Erdington), Leader of the Birmingham Conservative Group, has written to Birmingham City Council’s new Leader and Deputy Leader, urging them to take immediate action to save
