Birmingham Post - 2015-09-03

• Anger as IT firm makes millions in council deal
• ‘Catastroph­ic’: police force set to lose 55pc of budget by 2020
• Court to decide if ‘spiritual influence’ swung election win
• Merged Midland law firm to cull 45 jobs
• Higher legal fees ‘allowing companies to mistreat staff’
• City prospers – but millionair­es are short on the ground in region
• Council criticises new combined authority plans
• New beer raises a glass to old gangs of Brum
• New dawn for old pub forced to close its doors
• Old Assay Office set for rebirth
• Rates could fall by half for owners
• One in six West Midlanders born abroad
• A £43,000 whisky... and a rare old time
• Diesel set to fall below £1 per litre
• Councillor quits Labour group in row over ‘underhand deals’
• £20,000 for E-Type... needs work
• HS2 line could face two-year delay, says rail expert
• New free school for challengin­g pupils
• How a little bit of CARE kept us going after the hell of war
• Aston Martin takes on new apprentice­s
• £4.4m handout for new staff at ‘dysfunctio­nal’ city council
• Markets plan set to get the green light
• Yet more student flats on the cards
• Battle waged to mark city heritage
• Whirlpool in rival 11th hour bid for cooker giant
• Invisible trailer brings up the rear
• Flying high as records smashed
• Council politics? Like Game of Thrones... without the nudity
• Why Labour’s electoral dilemma strikes at the heart of the country
• Get down to business and show some ambition
• Harbingers of doom ignore facts
• Capita still cashes in as city taxpayers cough up
• The hidden cost of eroding rights
• Birmingham leads way in the battle against extremism
• A shared pride in our own history will give us a stake in the future
• Why boom could turn to gloom
• AstonVilla team up with charity on apprentice­ship
• Ansons advises on Avril’s acquisitio­n
• Carrying over holiday for sick workers
• Shoosmiths wins worker satisfacti­on title
• Social media silence to raise disease awareness
• Digital helping hand for a celebratio­n of city’s fashion scene
• Builders chosen for 55 Colmore Row revamp
• Retail expert retires after 25-year stint
• Top-up state pension offers a new way to subsidise old age
• New contactles­s payment limit
• BOOK REVIEW
• LA’s trump card in bid to get the Games back to the States
• DAVID MYERS
• Budget gyms flexing their considerab­le muscle

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