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After a 4-year hiatus, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery still falls short
'Visitors will feel the difference immediately'
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How David Lodge invented Rummidge to explain Birmingham
The late author was the city’s quiet chronicler
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Return of the bin strikes — Birmingham faces second of 13 days of action by refuse workers
Plus, Council chief to face trial for alleged antisemitism
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Investigation: The spectacular rise and sudden fall of Gurpaal Judge
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Britain doesn't have a second city
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The missing detail: Meet Akhmed Yakoob’s ‘gang leader’ business partner
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‘Total despair’: inside the meltdown at West Midlands Fire Service
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On Soho Road, a new scourge is terrorising the community: Vloggers
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The phantom tower of Station Street
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Cancel culture on campus? Inside the fight for freedom of speech at the University of Birmingham
Two students may not be allowed to graduate because they participated in pro-Palestine protests
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The rise and fall of Gatecrasher
The brand was born in Birmingham, made its name in Sheffield, and divides opinion across the country
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Before Gail’s, there was Kardomah
‘Michelangelo, ping-pong, ambition, Sibelius, and girls.’
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Seeking Scrooge-like epiphanies from one of Birmingham’s foremost clairvoyants
Everything she told me resonated as a true event that you just couldn’t explain’
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A town ringed by blossom
Birmingham's 19th Century 'Guinea Gardens' gave the city a split personality that it has to this day
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The Battle for Brockmoor and Pensnett
Amidst declining living standards, an unpopular Labour government and scandal in Dudley Council, do the forces of populism have an inroad? Or will the…
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Birmingham’s Fairground Fiasco
Plus, West Midlands Police Federation in racism row
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