Sir Keir Starmer is desperate. He’s desperate for Dudley
The Dispatch brings you the top lines ahead of the West Midlands council elections
The Dispatch
For now, he is Mr Nobody. Next week, he could be our mayor
Labour’s candidate is a lifelong management consultant who is taking heat from the Daily Mail. But who is Richard Parker?
Wrong place at the wrong time
50 years after the Birmingham Pub Bombings, revisiting the groundbreaking investigation that freed 6 innocent men
On Soho Road, a new scourge is terrorising the community: Vloggers
The road in Handsworth is faced with plenty of issues. Their biggest? An onslaught of camera-toting forty-somethings
A four year old girl has died. Will the West Midlands ‘tackle the scourge’ of dangerous driving?
‘We have so much more to do’ – Andy Street
UB40 played their first gig in Birmingham in 1979. 45 years later they’re still inseparable from the city.
Finding hope at the band's St Andrew's @ Knighthead Park gig
Is the Old Rep at risk of 'cultural vandalism'?
Glenbrook property say they want the the theatre "to thrive". The public is sceptical.
The Brummie railwaymen of Transylvania
‘Rolling hills, peeing down with rain, I feel like it's nearly back at home’
