Newsletter
Time Bomb: Birmingham’s forgotten film noir
The train is wired to blow
Playing Truant? The strange case of Birmingham’s ‘HS2 Academy’
Financial woes, harassment, spiralling senior pay packets - the story of how Birmingham lost its high-speed rail college
Roleplay, Cosplay, and Class Confidence
How Peaky Blinders inspires a devoted gang of fans
‘David and Goliath’ — Shock Reform council by-election win in Wolverhampton
Plus, get your Dispatch reader discount for the English Whisky Festival
Steve Winwood — Birmingham’s overlooked bard
He influenced Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. So why does his hometown ignore him?
‘Twice tried, twice hanged, twice buried’
An exceedingly creepy trek through the scenes of William Booth’s crimes
Are Wolverhampton’s top political family lying about their address?
The Dispatch stakes out a former mayor
Is Deritend still Birmingham’s Irish Quarter?
With several Irish institutions having left the area, how is the community coping with accelerated development, botched infrastructure projects and rising rents?
Where would we be without our libraries?
How Catherine O'Flynn, Liz Berry, Jonathan Coe and more teamed up to create a protest zine
The union man and the missing £30m — new details in Unite’s Birmingham hotel saga revealed
Plus, the national press discovers cheese and onion cobs
Eight stories a day keep the readers away
A Sunday editor’s note
The Smethwick gurdwara at the heart of a geopolitical storm
Guru Nanak Gurdwara has become a focal point of pro-Khalistan activism in the West Midlands. Now its political ties are coming under closer scrutiny
Invitation to our first members' event!
Tell your grandchildren you were there...