Meet the men who bought a police station — straight after donating to Labour
Two property developers with ties to the party are the proud new owners of a local cop shop
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Investigations begin into the cause of devastating Stourbridge wildfires
Plus: leading Birmingham academic slams Cambridge professor’s death as a “public lynching”
Green party councillor suspended after ‘assaulting’ three police officers
Plus, mango meltdown in Handsworth over a fruit festival
Reddit thinks Birmingham’s food scene is over; they’re wrong
Plus, Jude Bellingham, the city’s favourite son, returns
Raise the cutters!
The local flaggers have been getting creative with their edits as the council considers an injunction
Raddlebarn’s headteacher bids farewell
Angela Lowry has departed the Selly Oak school, seven months after our investigation
Raise the Colours deny links with organiser accused of making indecent child images
The Birmingham-based org is keen to cut ties with Ben Cullen. But pictures say a thousand words...
Can Carns can Keir?
The Selly Oak MP's friendship with a former fraudster has set tongues wagging
Labour’s doomed deal with Reform
Both parties tried to get into bed with the Tories — and were swiftly kicked out
Raise the Colours founder charged with murder
Member of flag-raising group faces trial after beloved pub boss killed by 'being punched'
Stirchley ‘under siege’: will Raise the Colours be banned?
A man has been hospitalised after more confrontations over flags
Labour has lost control — what’s next?
Plus: Reform swoop Sandwell, potential alliances, and remembering Erdington’s world-class club
Is Brum heading for a ‘mad coalition’ on 7 May? The government thinks so
A war of words heats up. Plus: £2m fake Gucci t-shirt Acocks Green operation busted
Bullying claims at the council and ‘intimidation’ by locals - it’s all kicking off
Springtime just got serious