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Last week, Cllr Lisa Trickett and Anne Shaw, Head of Transport Services, visited Brussels in order to push the urban mobility agenda forward in the European Parliament. Alongside Deputy Mayor of Malmo (Sweden), Milan Obradovic, they met with the office of Karima Delli MEP from […]

Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force heard the German soldiers singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches. The following day, British and German soldiers […]

  Pupils from Baskerville School were enjoying free rides on the carousel on the German Christmas Market on Tuesday. The youngsters were among 1178 children from special schools in Birmingham enjoying free rides on the carousel at the Victoria Square this year, thanks to the generosity […]

As announced by the University of Birmingham, on 21 October 2014, the University signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JCR) in Brussels. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Eastwood attended the signing ceremony along with the JRC’s Director General Vladimir Sucha. The […]

On 13 October 2014, Sir Albert Bore Leader of the Birmingham City Council welcomed a number of West Midlands SMEs at the Symphony Hall gathered to celebrate their successful projects. An extensive range of grant funds from both the European Community (ERDF) and Central Government […]