Sir Keir Starmer is desperate. He’s desperate for Dudley
The Dispatch brings you the top lines ahead of the West Midlands council elections
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Joseph Chamberlain’s cult of personality
He’s the mayor who transformed Birmingham from a sleepy and ignorant city into something great - but is there more to the myth?
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?
Birmingham: Rave's underdog
On the city's 'ultimate uncovered' musical history
‘Years of stolen wages’: School strikes loom across Brum
Plus: Andy Street’s pre-election pizzeria trip
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
