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August 2025
18:
‘No rules or boundaries’: five privately run children’s homes close after shock report
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The Dispatch
August 2025
16:
Danny, champion of Sutton Park
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Dan Cave
August 2025
13:
Inside the dramatic deselection of 11 Labour councillors
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and
Ed King
August 2025
12:
What can Brum do to become the UK's second city again?
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
August 2025
11:
Who is responsible for all the flags in Northfield?
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
August 2025
9:
Shire hopping: Birmingham's forgotten summer tradition
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and
Jon Neale
August 2025
6:
Councillor Simon Morrall says he's a Conservative. The party says he's not
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and
Rhi Storer
August 2025
4:
Reform accuses police of ‘cover up’ in Nuneaton
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
August 2025
2:
In Dudley, the Black Country Party mounts a challenge
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and
Dan Cave
July 2025
31:
The local groups trying to buy Brum back
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and
Matty Edwards
July 2025
28:
Is Birmingham the UK's 'tornado alley'?
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and
The Dispatch
July 2025
26:
Has Moseley lost its edge?
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and
Dan Cave
July 2025
25:
Three encounters with Ozzy Osbourne
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and
Rhi Storer
July 2025
24:
Brum bids goodbye to Ozzy
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and
The Dispatch
July 2025
23:
A Quinton bridge has become a point of crisis. Why?
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and
Rhi Storer
July 2025
21:
'Disappointing': Parent of coerced child criticises West Midlands police
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and
The Dispatch
July 2025
19:
Old digs, new tracks: the end of Perry Barr stadium
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and
Dan Cave
July 2025
17:
Opinion: the West Midlands economy can be reignited
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
July 2025
14:
Unite goes to war with Labour over Birmingham
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
July 2025
12:
Pebble Mill Studios and Birmingham's golden age of telly
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and
Jon Neale
July 2025
10:
Small plates vs late night drinks: can the two sides of Stirchley coexist?
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and
Dan Cave
July 2025
9:
A new poll, an 'old tosser' and the Dispatch's shortest interview
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
July 2025
7:
Did the Indian government poison a local activist?
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
July 2025
5:
Who lives in the city centre?
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and
Dan Cave
July 2025
4:
Manchester’s economy is leaving Birmingham behind
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and
Daniel Timms
July 2025
2:
Donald Trump is disrupting business in the West Midlands
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and
Chris Dorrell
June 2025
30:
Birmingham’s ‘road city emergency’ action stalls
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
June 2025
28:
One last lap in Ladywood
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and
Dan Cave
June 2025
25:
The revolution starts in Moseley
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
June 2025
23:
Balti bastion Shababs goes up in flames
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and
The Dispatch
June 2025
21:
When Brum brutally cleared its slums
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and
Jon Neale
June 2025
20:
Five students, a remote island, and the sequel to a horror classic
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and
Alex Taylor
June 2025
17:
The Solihull band that influenced Sonic Youth and Blur
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and
Ian Francis
June 2025
16:
Black Monday: two of Brum’s best-loved venues close
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and
The Dispatch
June 2025
14:
Woon Wing Yip built an empire. Is it in decline?
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
June 2025
13:
The battle for The Close
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and
Kate Knowles
June 2025
11:
Chicken Quarter: fair or fowl?
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and
Alex Taylor
June 2025
9:
A second chance for Brum's most controversial exempt accommodation provider?
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and
The Dispatch
June 2025
7:
Small Heath is drowning in rubbish. So why doesn’t the council’s data say so?
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
June 2025
5:
Old square, new tricks
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and
Kate Knowles
June 2025
2:
Lies n’ bribes: calls for chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque to stand down
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and
The Dispatch
May 2025
31:
Birmingham's prince of jazz
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and
Dan Cave
May 2025
30:
The curious case of the missing councillor
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
May 2025
28:
Last minute dinner parties, Bearwood & Bollywood
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and
Kate Knowles
May 2025
24:
The man Birmingham tried to forget
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and
Kate Knowles
May 2025
22:
Secretive and rushed: inside the fire sales flogging £1bn of Brum’s public assets
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and
Matty Edwards
May 2025
21:
The coach changing world wrestling from a Tyseley gym
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and
Annaliese Smith
May 2025
19:
Calls to ban 'sexual slavery' cleric and Britain First break in
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and
The Dispatch
May 2025
17:
No water, dead horses and a legal battle to save Bewdley's plotlands
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
May 2025
14:
The hopes and dreams of New Street
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and
Dan Cave
May 2025
12:
How much does Birmingham Pride's director owe the public?
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and
The Dispatch
May 2025
10:
The forgotten post-war decree that deliberately strangled Birmingham
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and
Jon Neale
May 2025
8:
Did Birmingham have to go bankrupt?
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
May 2025
7:
The Cadbury's superfans being left behind
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and
Anya Ryan
May 2025
3:
A lost film took Brum's surrealist past with it. Could it be found?
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and
Andy Howlett
May 2025
1:
Port Loop claims to be Birmingham’s ‘best place to live’. Best for whom?
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and
John Grindrod
April 2025
29:
Lost Tamworth cottages and why Birmingham should twin with L.A
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
April 2025
28:
Is this Perry Barr housing block a 'dumping' ground for the homeless?
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and
The Dispatch
April 2025
26:
How 1960s industrial Brum shaped world-conquering Black Sabbath
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and
Richard Franks
April 2025
25:
Fireworks, fraud accusations and fallouts at the Westside BID
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
April 2025
23:
Midlands weirdness meets Afro-Caribbean folklore in Michael D. Kennedy's world
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and
Michael D. Kennedy
April 2025
19:
Sham marriages and spies: rediscovering the Birmingham Group
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and
Jon Neale
April 2025
15:
Twenty years since MG Rover's demise, where is Longbridge now?
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and
Nathalie Olah
April 2025
14:
An abandoned warehouse in Digbeth caught fire last night — who owns it?
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
April 2025
12:
The future of Birmingham’s symphony orchestra is uncertain. Can grime help?
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and
Kate Knowles
April 2025
9:
With Rembrandt, a bid for relevance?
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
April 2025
7:
Farewell, Oasis - traders left in the lurch after market's sudden closure
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and
The Dispatch
April 2025
5:
Is this millionaire councillor lying about his address?
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and
Kate Knowles
April 2025
4:
Sparkbrook’s pigeon plague
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and
Alex Taylor
April 2025
2:
At Reform's Birmingham bonanza, set design is the real winner
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
March 2025
31:
Code COBRA! Should the government hold an emergency meeting about Birmingham’s bins?
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and
The Dispatch
March 2025
29:
Why does everyone hate us?
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and
Jon Neale
March 2025
27:
The council says striking bin workers are violent. The union says that's rubbish.
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and
Kate Knowles
March 2025
24:
'Toothless' charity watchdog closes investigation into mosque
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
March 2025
22:
The art of clubbing is dead. In Birmingham, it’s even dead-er
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
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and
Dan Cave
March 2025
20:
Richard Gamble had a vision. Now he's building a 51-metre wall of prayer by a motorway
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
March 2025
19:
Ancestral land owners, gangster pop stars and everything in between
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and
Kate Knowles
March 2025
18:
Making local news pay
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and
Kate Knowles
March 2025
17:
Bins boss abroad — councillor under fire for taking trip during strikes
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
March 2025
15:
Regional mayors paid £3m to a training company. What did they get in return?
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and
Abi Whistance
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and
Jack Walton
March 2025
13:
50 years after they formed in Handsworth, reggae legends Steel Pulse are coming home
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and
Kate Knowles
March 2025
12:
Lights! Camera! Edgbaston! How Birmingham supercharged the film industry
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and
Jon Neale
March 2025
10:
Preet Gill and the 'golden visa' money
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
March 2025
8:
The sets were wobbly. The budget was non-existent. But Crossroads stands the test of time
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and
Alex Taylor
March 2025
7:
Leaked recordings and scheming councillors: did Labour councillors engage in a ‘campaign of abuse’?
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and
Kate Knowles
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and
Jack Walton
March 2025
5:
On Shrove Tuesday in Atherstone: ‘bollocks is all that matters’
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
March 2025
3:
Birmingham bin men vs ‘zombie’ council
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and
The Dispatch
February 2025
26:
The loveliest part of England? How Jonathan Meades chronicled the West Midlands
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
February 2025
24:
The big Birmingham bailout. Is £180m enough to keep the city above water?
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and
The Dispatch
February 2025
23:
Waseem Zaffar’s house was turned into a filthy HMO. He says he has nothing to do with it
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and
Jack Walton
February 2025
20:
A tale of temperance and town planning
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and
The Dispatch
February 2025
17:
The vigilantes of Hall Green
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and
The Dispatch
February 2025
15:
New Street is in desperate need of renewal
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and
Jack Walton
February 2025
14:
Investigation: Raja Khan’s empire of dirt
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and
Samuel McIlhagga
February 2025
12:
‘Like gunshots going off outside my window’: how padel tore a Sutton Coldfield community in half
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and
Alex Taylor
February 2025
10:
‘Hordes of filth’ and ‘soiled underwear’: Robert Jenrick is no fan of Handsworth
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and
The Dispatch
February 2025
9:
The billionaire, the Yardley pub and the role of local news
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and
Birmingham Dispatch
February 2025
8:
Birmingham is not just heavy metal
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and
Jon Neale
February 2025
6:
An Irish hospitality tycoon promised to transform one of Birmingham’s most important buildings — three years later, and it’s falling apart
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and
Kate Knowles
February 2025
3:
All rise: citizens' jury decides future of Brum museums
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and
The Dispatch
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