Can this man save the Electric?
Ian Francis has a (fully-costed) plan. Now he just needs developers on side
Culture
The Lashford dynasty: 137 years of locally-made links
'Try growing up in a sausage family; you can imagine the jokes'
The Golden Lion roars again, badgers make way for new trees, and the Mandem get out into nature
Presenting: our first ever Good News edition
Who's top dog in Birmingham? Our day at the city's weirdest — and cutest — event
The best Crufts photos you’ll see this week
Paneer and bloating on the Bearwood snack trail
An essential guide to this entirely made up attraction
Yorks cafes: inside the collapse of a coffee kingdom
Simon York Ford fled debt in Dubai. Now it’s on his doorstep
They were Brum’s answer to The Beatles — until Harold Wilson sued them
The Move were destined for stardom but a smutty postcard brought them down
Nek’s graffiti is everywhere. Who is he?
One man’s search for the meaning of a Birmingham tag
The decline of a royal town
Amazon warehouses, managed decline, and flags. What’s happened to Sutton Coldfield?
‘A horror story’: the pet shop in Aston ruffling feathers
Birds4U sells exotic birds at an inner-city retail park. Customers claim it’s an animal welfare scandal
The stubborn booksellers keeping Brum's indie scene alive
'I am not interested in running a branch of WH Smith'
My hunt for the Brummie officers of post-war Bosnia — and other observations
A writer’s edition from Samuel
The bizarre ode to brutalist Birmingham that killed Cliff Richard’s film career
The Peter Pan of Pop’s final big-screen role is a prize piece of Brummie pop culture. Just maybe not in the way he intended…
Charles Dickens was determined to help Birmingham. Do we need a new literary hero?
The city could use a friend like the great author today
The secret lives of Birmingham’s Santas
Three Father Christmases spill the beans on their biggest gig of the year
Mozart’s angels: how the CBSO is trying to win over the under-30s
‘Younger people have a different relationship with classical music than older generations’