D-Day at Birmingham Airport

It’s D-Day for Birmingham Airport this week, as the Diggers move in to start work on extending the runway, allegedly needed to accommodate long-haul flights. Birmingham Friends of the Earth ran a long-running campaign against the extension of the airport, only...

Birmingham City Council Say 20’s Plenty

There was some good news from the council earlier this week, as Birmingham City Council passed a resolution calling the for the implementation of  20mph as the default speed limit on residential roads across the city. The decision, taken at a council meeting on 6...