There’s been a surge in ‘ghost patients’. But what’s really going on?
Plus The Dispatch is recommended in the Financial Times
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The (un)glamorous life of a writer in Birmingham
Bad gigs, being accosted in the street; and misplaced jealousy
‘Uncomfortable’: Andy Street on challenging Rishi Sunak over HS2 - and why he didn’t resign
‘I did not initiate the conversation about resigning. It was the journalists who initiated the bloody conversation.’
Our young people are struggling with their mental health. Do we know why?
Plus: A former sub-postmistress from Telford speaks out about the Post Office scandal
Did West Midlands Police properly investigate the death of Avtar Khanda?
Plus Roy Hodgson predicts Rooney's comeback
Victorian novelist George Eliot’s Nuneaton home is now a Premier Inn — The Dispatch visited
Heading to North Warwickshire for literary inspiration and beer-battered onion rings
Freezing flats and tenants ‘treated like animals’: Counting the human cost of a social housing empire
‘We had purple fingers and slept with jackets on’
Sick of that ‘click bait stuff’ - The Dispatch’s first ever member is on a crusade for quality reporting
Anne Forster tells us what she wants from her local paper - and it isn’t celebrity gossip.
The looming tower: Did a Coventry factory poison my family?
Thousands of people grew up in the shadow of ‘the tall, skinny Courtaulds chimney’. Now they can’t help wondering about its legacy.