Who cares about Selly Oak?
To-let boards, rubbish, and rodents: for some, the South Brum neighbourhood has lost its soul
Society
Andrew Tate hero worship and Bonnie Blue ‘banter’: how are smartphones affecting Brum’s schoolkids?
To ban or not to ban? That is the question
Abandoned and on fire
People are living in Brum’s derelict buildings. What happens when there’s a blaze?
Operation Fearless: racist and short-sighted or absolutely necessary?
Hot-spot policing has arrived in Handsworth – and not everyone’s happy about it
How Coventry got its groove back
The city’s football club is flying and that’s not the only cause for cheer. Is Cov on the up?
2,500 open cases: a day inside Birmingham's courts
Double-booked interpreters, broken screens, and a system buckling under a backlog that's doubled since 2019
Piss, needles and political aspirations: the litter guerrillas cleaning up Brum
‘If there is hope, it lies in the litter-pickers’
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
Banning cars was going to revive Wolverhampton's centre. Why's it empty?
Pedestrianised Victoria Street is missing one thing: pedestrians
The fall of Craig Guildford: How botched intelligence brought down a chief constable
The police leader has retired following Maccabi fan ban 'blunders'
Birmingham and the birth of British fascism
The first in our new series looks at Oswald Mosley’s strong ties to the city
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
Two brothers arrived in Birmingham seeking safety. Four months later one was dead
Mustafa Maolanzadeh's encounter with the British asylum system has been complicated and painful
Porn stars: the Birmingham university leading x-rated academia
With its porn studies strand, BCU earns its reputation for the radical
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found