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News published July 2019

• Illegal cigarettes and cash seized in day of action

  Illegal cigarettes worth more than £4,000 have been seized during a day of action led by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City Council’s Trading Standards team and West Midlands Police.

  

  Published 31st July 2019.

• Fly-tipper jailed for five months

  A man responsible for the dumping of waste in the garden of an empty house in Handsworth has been jailed for five months by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Crown Court today (25 July 2019).

  Published 26th July 2019.

• ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ gets new deal on digital autopsy scanner

  ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City Council has announced that it has successfully negotiated a deal that will provide the city with access to a Computed Tomography Post Mortems (CTPM) scanner on a trial basis.

  Published 24th July 2019.

• Plans for new improvement model to best serve residents

  ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City Council has published a proposal to appoint a number of non-executive advisors aligned to its priority areas, as part of its ongoing improvement journey

  Published 23rd July 2019.

• True value of city’s parks and open spaces calculated at £11billion

  The value of parks and green estate in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, in terms of what they offer to all aspects of life in the city, has been calculated as £11billion.

  Published 23rd July 2019.

• Another step forward for ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ children's ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

  The Department for Education has said that a commissioner for ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s children ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is no longer required.

  Published 22nd July 2019.

• Council awarded £1.2m of government migration funding

  ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City Council received £1.2m from the Government's Controlling Migration fund, for two projects aimed at helping asylum seekers, refugees and migrants integrate into the city's communities.

  Published 18th July 2019.

• New provider for home-to-school transport service

  ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ City Council today announced that the majority of its home-to-school transport service will be provided by West Midlands Accessible Transport Ltd, a subsidiary of National Express.

  

  Published 17th July 2019.

• Watt in the World exhibition celebrates bicentenary

  A new exhibition on James Watt has opened at the Library of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.

  

  Published 15th July 2019.

• Celebrating children's rights in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

  A celebration of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ schools achieving the Unicef Rights Respecting School award, from nursery through to secondary, took place in the city today.

  

  Published 11th July 2019.

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