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Panic at the council: the battle for Birmingham’s budget is on
Can Labour win today’s nail-biting vote?
'Late and clumsy': Maccabi fan ban verdict says Home Office 'inflamed tensions'
Plus, pints and pork scratchings win over Japanese ambassador
Ian Paterson: as 67 deaths are investigated, a new book details how he 'groomed' victims
Plus, the senior Labour councillor investigated for sexual remarks
Your commute has been nationalised: the region’s railways are now in public hands
Will it make a difference?
Why everyone in the West Mids is owed £3500 — sort of
New report shows disposable income growth has slumped
'Cheap labour': NHS scheme for overseas doctors ends after bombshell investigation
Plus, Only Scrans raves about Brum's curry and chips
West Midlands Police grapple with £41m financial black hole
Plus, Maneki Ramen gets the Jay Rayner treatment
2025 Dispatched: our pick of the year’s best stories
12 months of ‘first class investigative journalism’
Dos cervezas por favor! Birmingham should be like Barcelona, says lead commissioner
Plus: want to buy a cat on Vinted?
The councillor who can’t make up his mind
Sandwell’s Sukhbir Singh Gill has gone from Labour to Reform to independent in under 24 hours
BBC coverage of controversial Sikh Youth group misses far-right links
Plus, anti-digital ID activists protest at New Street station
From Small Heath to Whitehall: Shabana Mahmood is new home secretary
Plus, Birmingham celebrates the Balti
