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All the latest news and information about Birmingham, UK. Birmingham is at the heart of the West Midlands and is the UK’s second largest city. Among its many claims to fame, it is home to the Bullring shopping centre, the Jewellery Quarter, Cadbury chocolate, two football clubs - Aston Villa and Birmingham City - and Spaghetti Junction.

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The Brummies who share most Christmas cheer by lighting it up
Midlands News
Festive look at some of the more colourful streets in Birmingham
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Birmingham council leader says 'historic injustice brought to end' amid equal pay agreement
Politics
Birmingham City Council and unions have reached an agreement to settle equal pay claims
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Historic equal pay deal struck between Birmingham City Council and unions
Birmingham City Council
It's confirmed - a deal has been done to end Birmingham City Council's equal pay nightmare
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Storm Darragh creates Birmingham havoc - pictures as man killed in winds
Birmingham
Storm Darragh wrecked havoc across the region
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How bustling Birmingham suburb that could become centre of bakery war has changed over the years
Nostalgia
Moseley has always been a lively beating community
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Boarded-up house with holes in the floorboard could be yours for £75,000
Property
The house in Rednal has boarded up windows and doors, and an overgrown back garden
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Mum-of-two 'trapped' in mouldy hotel room with family distraught after ceiling 'collapses'
Acocks Green
Birmingham City Council has apologised over the conditions after the family-of-four were placed into temporary accommodation at the hotel in September
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Devastated neighbour tried to feed boy found buried in Birmingham garden
Handsworth and Soho
Carol Read tried to get food to little Abiyah Yasharahyalah before he was secretly buried by his parents in their Birmingham garden
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The lost Birmingham swimming baths we all loved as children
Nostalgia
Moseley Baths restoration has taken a step forward
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Inside Birmingham medical centre put up for sale
Birmingham
Millennium Medical Centre in Weoley Castle is up for auction
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'We will find you' pledge as Aston street piled high with rubbish by flytippers
Aston and Nechells
The street in Birmingham saw a mountain of rubbish dumped as authorities vowed 'we'll get you'
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20 demolished buildings in the last 20 years in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is an ever changing city and we look at some of the changes over the last two decades
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The price of Birmingham's road safety crisis - with each death costing millions
Transport
A new council report has shed light on the significant financial impact of road harm, with each fatality costing over £2 million
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'My husband was killed by a reckless driver - the trauma is unbearable'
Birmingham
Lesley Bates lost her husband of 42 years in a head-on collision in May 2017, she described the pain of losing a loved on as a 'crippling torture'
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'There's no fear' - Grieving sister's driving plea after brother killed in speeding horror smash
Birmingham
Sonia Gandham, whose brother was killed in a terrifying crash in 2021, has spoken of her grief as part of Road Safety Awareness Week
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Hit-and-run driver hunted as car 'deliberately' hit fans outside Villa Park after Premier League match
Aston Villa FC
An Aston Villa supporter told how it was fortunate that no-one was killed after suffering serious leg injuries just minutes after the team's match against Crystal Palace
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Animal activists demand Birmingham pub changes name as it's 'derogatory' to foxes
Pubs in Birmingham
The Sly Old Fox in Birmingham has been targeted by animal rights campaigners who have demanded the pub change its name as it is 'derogatory' to the animal
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The year Concorde landed in Birmingham and Aston Villa conquered Europe
Nostalgia
What a year 1982 turned out to be
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The six men who were wrongfully convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings
Birmingham Pub Bombings
On November 21 1974 two bombs exploded in Birmingham and six men were wrongfully convicted
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Man arrested in Edgbaston murder probe after victim shot dead and another fighting for life
Edgbaston
A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of murder after a shooting as police were called to Rotton Park Road, near the junction, with City Road, in Edgbaston, last night
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Storm Bert live as weather warnings blanket UK for snow, rain and wind
UK weather
The West Midlands faces heavy rain as Storm Bert batters the UK
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Inside £170k Birmingham house on sale that's the blankest of canvases
Birmingham
Yardley house with bare bricks and plaster on the market
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Birmingham in 1988 pictured - the Super Prix, Diana visit and Bull Ring
Nostalgia
We take a nostalgic look back to 1988
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First picture of BMW killer driver who clocked up to 62mph before hitting boy
Courts
Shazad Alam fatally stuck 12-year-old Azaan Khan as he crossed Coventry Road on his bicycle
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