On Monday night a group attacked the property, smashing the windows and pelting it with stones. The same thing happened on ...

Our streets are overrun with criminality linked to these properties, and the housing benefit team descends further into chaos ...

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In Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, the character Mrs Elton is scathing about some recent acquaintances. “They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr Weston. One has no ...

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Good morning — here is your Thursday Dispatch. Today’s story begins not in Birmingham but in Milton Keynes, one of the most successful New Towns created in the 20th Century as a solution to the ...

A gathering at OIKOS cafe. Photo courtesy of OIKOS. The Telegraph slammed the area and one local said it was on the ‘verge of civil war’. What's it actually like? Dear readers — you asked, The ...

Thousands of people grew up in the shadow of ‘the tall, skinny Courtaulds chimney’. Now they can’t help wondering about its legacy. My mum is on end of life care, visited regularly by nurses from a ...

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The Peter Pan of Pop’s final big-screen role is a prize piece of Brummie pop culture. Just maybe not in the way he intended… At a sodden Spaghetti Junction, a Mini Clubman descends from the M6 to the ...