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?
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‘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
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