Dudley Council is consulting on proposed changes to its council tax reduction (CTR) scheme which will streamline the process and particularly help claimants on Universal Credit (UC). CTR reduces the amount of council tax that low income households (including those claiming UC) have to pay to the local authority. Currently, […]

People in Birmingham are the most worried about money in the whole country, according to a nationwide study revealing the UK’s most financially stressed cities.     Birmingham came in first out of eleven major cities, ahead of London, Manchester and Glasgow. Forty-six per cent of Brummies say they have money worries, compared […]

Major construction will begin on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in the New Year. Councillors are set to sign off funding and contract agreements at a meeting next week (20 November). Work to prepare the site is already well advanced with the main building work set to start in January as […]

Birmingham based The Rec Bank are excited to announce the official launch of their Job Board – TheRecBank.com The Rec Bank is the first of a kind, a job site built exclusively for the recruitment agency industry and features over 100,000 vacancies by some of the UK’s leading recruiters. For […]

Bobatoo.co.uk asked more than 7,000 people in the UK about their Christmas spending plans this year, including when they start shopping, how much they spend, how many people they buy for, where they plan to shop, etc. Christmas shopping is high on the list of priorities for many people at […]

People who want to shift or relocate use storage units temporarily for storing their important possessions and other belongings. Storage units are crucial to store things mainly when people need some time before they fully complete the shifting process. Different types of storage units such as document storage service units, […]

More than £250,000 is available to help support businesses in the borough who want to take on apprentices. The cash is available through Dudley Council’s apprenticeship levy. This year the local authority has £255,000 of unspent levy to share with businesses looking to start taking on apprentices, or add to […]

A six-week consultation on the future of Brandhall Golf Course will start tomorrow (Thursday 7 November). People will be asked to give their views on a proposal to close the golf course and club house as well as potential alternative uses for the site. Sandwell Council is putting forward possible […]

City of Wolverhampton Council has taken the decision to defer the item for the proposed traveller transit site until the next planning committee meeting in the new year. After receiving a series of detailed representations from the local community, the city council will now take further time to consider the […]

UK Small firms believe it has become harder to recruit and retain EU staff since the Brexit referendum, according to new statistics from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).  FSB’s research shows that one in five small employers have a team member from the EU and of these firms, over a quarter (26%) believe that recruitment of […]