Labour has lost control — what’s next?
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A blue dawn in Brum
Fourteen years of Labour dominance are over. How will a new 'rainbow' council coalition fare?
The Black Country’s mental health trust is in a worsening crisis
In hospitals intended to provide a ‘place of safety’, five people have died in three years
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?
Exclusive: Why did Shabana Mahmood vote using the wrong ballot in 2004?
A new postal vote discrepancy – and two very similar signatures
Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood’s postal ballot was investigated in a 2004 vote-rigging scandal in Birmingham
The future home secretary submitted two postal ballot documents with very different signatures
Sean Egan tackled a shoplifter and lost his job. Now he’s national news. Why?
The making of a West Midlands cause célèbre
The dreams and dilemmas of Brum’s young Tories
‘The problem is, if you wear a business suit you look like you’ve stolen it off your dad’
Who got the Camp Hill line over the line?
Richard Parker says it was him. Andy Street says it was him. Who’s right?
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
New Street Station's got an escalating problem
The stairways are being replaced for £17m — just a decade after they were first installed
A Cypriot bouncer built a fry-up empire. His son is watching it crumble
‘I personally think it’s a form of social cleansing. They don’t want us. They want Greggs, they want Starbucks’
Inside the power struggle at Reform UK Birmingham
The party’s new recruits are locking horns with its old guard
Is Brum heading for a ‘mad coalition’ on 7 May? The government thinks so
A war of words heats up. Plus: £2m fake Gucci t-shirt Acocks Green operation busted
Can this man save the Electric?
Ian Francis has a (fully-costed) plan. Now he just needs developers on side