Billboards in Birmingham cite party leader’s remarks about a new funding model as local elections campaigning beginsLabour has begun an all-out assault on Nigel Farage over his views on the NHS ahead of key elections in...
Read MoreUnion says Labour-run council could end industrial action with ‘decent rate of pay’, but town hall says offer is fairTalks aimed at ending a strike by waste collectors in Birmingham have ended without a...
Read MoreUncollected food waste ‘poses public health danger’ as 400 workers take indefinite action over pay and conditions A bin collection strike in Birmingham could lead to rats thriving on a “banquet” of food...
Read MoreDistricts in Birmingham now ranked below poorest areas of France, Slovenia and Malta as institute urges rethink on planned welfare cutsThe UK has tumbled down the league of affluent nations after almost a decade of welfare cuts...
Read MoreRubbish piles up as all-out strike follows smaller actions since January over scrapping of some rolesRubbish is piling up on the streets of Birmingham as bin workers launched an all-out indefinite strike, with the council...
Read MoreUnions hail ‘historic outcome’ after agreement reached on claims that left council with estimated £760m liabilitiesBirmingham city council has reached an agreement to settle historical equal pay claims that...
Read MoreRelatives of those killed in 1974 attack urge government on its 50th anniversary to set up statutory inquiryRelatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have said “England’s biggest unsolved mass murder of...
Read MoreMuhammad Hassam Ali, 17, was killed by stranger after a four-minute conversation in city centreA 15-year-old boy who followed a teenager he did not know through Birmingham city centre and stabbed him to death after a four-minute...
Read MoreAhead of the budget next week, the Guardian’s John Harris is in Birmingham, where the city council in effect declared itself bankrupt in 2023. He spends time with people struggling with the severe spending cuts and asks...
Read MoreExclusive: Police investigate whether spies placed incendiary package that caught alight in BirminghamCounter-terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted an incendiary device on a plane to Britain which...
Read MoreBirmingham was planning £300m in cuts but there are concerns the council’s financial crisis was overstatedPoliticians in Birmingham have called for council cuts, thought to be the biggest in local authority history,...
Read MoreSale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’Hundreds of empty homes in Birmingham, originally designed as an athletes’ village for the...
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Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds
French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs
UK PM hosting international summit in London in attempt