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Birmingham Strategic Partnership - goes for Sustainability

With the Birmingham Environmental Partnerships now linked to the BSP the Environmental Partnerships have been tasked with working on practical proposals for Birmingham to deal with climate change and the other requirements for a sustainable city.

My own particular interest is not in having a lot of long wordy well meaning and worthy documents, but some key actions that we need to take to improve the situation in Birmingham.

The Urban Village Environmental Partnerships in conjunction with Brumcan and the various other non-statutory organisations appear now to be moving further towards results.

We also have a further look at "Broadband Brum". It would be quite nice for Birmingham to progress to compete to be the most "wired" city in the world as well as taking serious strides towards being in the more sustainable large cities (I think we have a longer way to go there so cannot get as far as I would like that quickly).

Ayoub Khan also obtained a court order for Mohammed Afzal's phone bill. The importance of this will become clear over time.

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