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No! Look at the good stuff! The Victorian buildings in the city centre! A growing visitor economy worth £14 billion! Harper’s ...

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A huge zoo based around Edgbaston Reservoir, complete with “pleasure grounds”: a stadium, cinemas, a water park and theatres.

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A gathering at OIKOS cafe. Photo courtesy of OIKOS. The Telegraph slammed the area and one local said it was on the ‘verge of civil war’. What's it actually like? Dear readers — you asked, The ...

In Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, the character Mrs Elton is scathing about some recent acquaintances. “They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr Weston. One has no ...

The Peter Pan of Pop’s final big-screen role is a prize piece of Brummie pop culture. Just maybe not in the way he intended… At a sodden Spaghetti Junction, a Mini Clubman descends from the M6 to the ...

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