Dear readers — welcome to another Monday. On Sunday we enjoyed an influx of new members (an especially warm welcome this afternoon if that’s you) taking us within 150 of the 2000 milestone. It’s good to have you here, and please do capitalise on your newly-acquired commenting privileges by making yourselves known below this briefing.
If that isn’t you, there’s still time to amend your ways. We’re going to be having a big push for 2000 members over the next couple of months and with our team about to expand again, there’s never been a better time to join.
On the menu today: The Times has been busy, digging into the apparently close ties between local Labour politicians and a couple of very wealthy businessmen. That leads today’s briefing.
Elsewhere, last week a series of firebombs was launched at luxury cars parked outside of a wedding venue in Sparkbrook. As a Lamborghini went up in flames, three men were spotted running away from the scene in rather dramatic CCTV footage that police are now investigating. All that, and more, is below.
Catch up and coming up:
- On Saturday, Kate got inside the recent, shock buy out of National Express West Midlands by the WMCA. Now the regional authority directly owns the business that runs our buses, a first-of-its-kind move among mayors. Catch up on all the details here.
- Last week, we were in Stourbridge assessing the damage done by the recent wildfires that made ‘apocalyptic’ scenes. Read all about it here.
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