Foreign businessmen and those on high salaries will be safe under the Home Office’s new plans to introduce rules designed to reduce immigrants’ rights to settle permanently in the UK. The proposal will abolish the current...

Automotive company TRW and Solihull College have partnered to train the next generation of engineers. The Solihull-based branch of the global car giant has expressed interest in reviving an apprenticeship programme. The lack of skilled engineers...

This slow period of growth needs more stimulation and keeping interest rates low is one of the few remedies, say Midland business leaders. The government must also provide other incentives to encourage companies to grow, said...

Reuters Insurers, who are struggling with flat prices and paltry investments returns, face extra pressure as companies affected by slowing economic growth and plunging financial markets decide to self-insure, causing the industry to lose money. Self-insurance,...

Bringing forward major infrastructure projects in the West Midlands, pledged this morning by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, will be a timely intervention to reduce the region’s unemployment, now standing at 9.1 per cent. Christine Braddock,...

Lycamobile representatives saw firsthand how corporate support for skills training is changing the lives of young people and their families surviving in the slums of Chennai, India. Chris Liveing, Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Landau, Chief...

By Daniel Jackson England qualified for next summer’s EURO 2012 with a draw against Montenegro but didn’t get the job done quite as elegantly as they would have liked. After goals from Ashley Young and Darren...

More footballers than ever are choosing to move countries, to test themselves on a different stage, but often find language proves to be a big problem. That was before the launch of Football Talk, the brainchild...

By Daniel Jackson With all the hype flooding through the United Kingdom in anticipation of next year’s Olympic Games in London it is interesting to note that the ticket demands for the Paralympic Games are also...

By William Walker Optimism is high in the England camp ahead of their Twenty20 match against India in Kolkata next month. English captain Stuart Broad, who tore a muscle in his shoulder in the fourth test...