Leads are they going to be telling us about. , ~ y. ,. Lets get more on Birmingham City council, europes biggest local authority, effectively filing for bankruptcy. It has issued a section 4 notice, which prevents all but essential spending. Earlier this year, the council began talks with the government after revealing it was struggling with outgoings including equal pay claims and the implementation of a new it system. This is what the deputy head of the council, Sharon Thompson had to say earlier today. As you all now know, the section 151 office of Fiona Greenway has formally issued a section 4 notice to the government, advising that the council is unable to close its budget gap in the year ahead. As a consequence, some reports scheduled for this meeting today have been deferred, or will be deferred, but i want to stress that despite the significant challenges that we face, we will prioritise Core Services that our residents rely on. We can speak now to stuart hoddinott, a Senior Re
Not have been so many consequences after that kiss. News coming in that jorge vilda has been fired. So much pressure on lewis row be our lawyers, who has insisted he will not resign despite all that pressure from fifa, from the team, internationally piling up. Of course the team coach had stayed in place, but that news just filtering in that he has been fired in at the aftermath of this. Our correspondent guy hedgecoe is there. We dont know a great deal of detail about the sacking ofjorge vilda, other than the stand and president of the Spanish Football Federation at the moment while Luis Rubiales are suspended by fifa, that he told the coach that he no longer held the post. This is something i think many people had been expecting for a while, especially since the Luis Rubiales scandal blew up a few days ago. He was seen as a very close ally of Luis Rubiales. Jorge vilda also has had quite a tumultuous relationship at times with spains womens Football Team. Around a year ago there was
He gave a defiant speech saying he wasnt going to be resigning, that he hadnt done anything wrong and that kiss was consensual. The pressure seems to have been heaped on jorge pressure seems to have been heaped onjorge vilda. He did issue a subsequent communique in which he said he did condemn the behaviour of the president. Since then there has been a lot of speculation about his future. The federation itself has said that he has been sacked and he will be replaced. I think you can say that this development is not entirely unexpected, given the relationship Thatjorge Vilda had with Luis Rubiales. Relationship that jorge vilda had with Luis Rubiales. Relationship that jorge vilda had with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the spanish with Luis Rubiales. What have you heard from the spanish fa with Luis Rubiales. What have you l heard from the spanish fa directly . The spanish fa did issu