The network allows home-workers to access the full range of council applications, together with email, the intranet and the council's computerised telephone network.
According to the folks at the council, applications, both from young scientists and from companies, have already started piling in, even though they have yet to advertise or even put out a formal press release.
Evidence that other councils' applications have been rejected comes from the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).
The result is that the three clubs with whom Las Vegas Sands had concluded deals, Rangers, Birmingham and Sheffield United, find themselves in a strange footballing competition, supporting their local councils' applications to be granted the first UK licence.
Mrs Justice Lang said the council's application was flawed and its legal team was told to present its application for a possession order in a new form by 8 October, or see it withdrawn or dismissed.
Magistrates rejected the council's application, saying emergency action was unnecessary.
Considerations like these inform the purchasing decision more than whether we have a business continuity plan, which is the sort of thing a council tender application looks for.
A DfE spokesman says: "Following discussions with the local authority, it was felt that the council's application for an IEB would not secure the necessary improvements at the school".
Space life science is a fledgling discipline that boasts barely enough critical mass to survive in the cutthroat world of research council grant application.
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said the Department for Education had approved the council's application to appoint temporary governors and disband the previous executive board.
