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...

By Hemisha Morarji Cricketing legend Sir Ian Botham said corporal punishment and cricket would have prevented the August riots. The former England captain is planning to promote “cage cricket”, a version of the sport that shares...

British cycling invited Sport England’s Parliamentary Fellow Rehman Chishti to their Manchester headquarters to reveal the secrets to their success. The Conservative MP for Gillingham and Rainham, was given a tour of the world-leading velodrome and...

Ofcom has fined a local Islamic channel £75,000 for encouraging the audience to donate money in exchange for prayers. The Media regulators made the charge to Noor TV earlier this month, accusing the Birmingham based channel of...

The Selfridges store is one of Birmingham’s most distinctive landmarks, with its wavy structure and honeycomb exterior. But travel guide magazine Lonely Planet has placed the Bull Ring shopping centre store in its “craziest building category.”...