WALLDORF, Germany, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Birmingham City Council has finalized an SAP implementation project as a key step in the total overhaul of corporate services, as detailed in an executive brief from IDC Government Insights and sponsored by SAP AG (NYSE: SAP).

By Rhona Ganguly; Ian Richardson Blogs in Birmingham and across the pond were buzzing yesterday after The Birmingham Post revealed how thousands of recycling leaflets posted to households in the city had been produced with a picture of the wrong skyline.

It is unwise to generalise in politics but, on the face of it, the will-we-won't-we struggle over the future of the Tyburn Road bus lanes appears to expose conflicting interests in Birmingham City Council's ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.

The Government must match its financial support for major rail schemes in London and the South-east of the country by quickly approving the final pounds 236 million tranche of public funding for the renewal of New Street Station, Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby demanded last night.

Government transport experts have only just been handed "crucial" research outlining passenger forecasts for a refurbished New Street Station and will have to go through the work in detail before decisions about funding the pounds 550 million scheme can be taken, it emerged yesterday.