Tonight, BBC Panorama will air a special episode about supported exempt accommodation, exposing the exploitative practices that are rife in the sector in Birmingham. The hour-long documentary (online ...
On Monday night a group attacked the property, smashing the windows and pelting it with stones. The same thing happened on ...
A blistering letter: Are Birmingham’s council officers to blame for our exempt accommodation crisis?
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 ...
One of my earliest memories is from the old Birmingham Science Museum on Newhall Street. I don’t remember much about the exhibits or the building, except for one thing: the Smethwick Engine. I used to ...
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 ...
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) is perhaps the easiest of sci-fi author John Wyndham’s novels to love. You might ascribe this to its neat elevator pitch of a plot: one day, every woman in a village becomes ...
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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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