Gearing up

There may be a recession on and champers budgets may have been cut, but plenty of bods from the West Mids are still preparing to head out to Cannes for MIPIM next week.

As ever, a team from Birmingham will be flying the flag for the UK's second city. And the publicity machine has been put into overdrive to communicate what Team Birmingham will be up to.

So far this week I've seen stories about a competition to win a VIP motoring day in Brum (see pic above), the high number of one company's MDs originating from Brum, the Brum band who will play in the Martinez every night next week and other things which escape me already. All good stuff, but nothing yet to do with, er, property. Ah well, no doubt TB is saving all the serious stuff for next week!...