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Save up to £60 per person on days out with the kids to Alton Towers, Cadbury World and more, in the Merlin Annual Pass sale

With school holidays fast approaching, and parents scrambling for cost-effective days out with the family, the Merlin sale is well-timed

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‘A tipping point for the city’: anger in Birmingham as Electric cinema closes

Campaign to save UK’s oldest working cinema and designate Station Street ‘a historic asset’ launched amid redevelopment plans

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Priory healthcare group fined £650,000 over death of patient

Matthew Caseby ‘inappropriately unattended’ before he absconded from mental health hospital in Birmingham

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First official DJI Store in America opens; will the New York location take off?

DJI already had official stores in China, the UK, and elsewhere. Now the 5th Avenue store adds the USA – but can it work?

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Birmingham council approves biggest budget cuts in local authority history

Up to 600 council jobs to be lost, arts grants scrapped, libraries closed and bin collections reduced to fortnightly

The Guardian - UK

Budget Crisis Forces UK's Birmingham Towards Service Cuts, Tax Hikes

Councillors in the UK's second-largest city Birmingham were poised Tuesday to approve tax hikes and deep cuts to public services that could include axed arts funding and reduced rubbish collection, as the city fights to avoid bankruptcy.

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‘A huge step back for the city’: people in Birmingham on council budget cuts

Proposals on services ranging from bin collections to social care, arts and libraries have left many worried for the future

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Nineteen English councils handed multimillion-pound bailout agreements

So-called capitalisation directions are risky and regarded as poor accounting practice, experts say

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TV tonight: it’s Peaky Blinders week on Bring The Drama

Bill Bailey’s strangely addictive acting competition heads to Birmingham. Plus: more witchy love on Domino Day. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Jet2 flight to Birmingham makes emergency landing after ‘smoke reported in plane’

Passengers had to board a separate plane to get home

Evening Standard

Paul Scully 'regrets' storm after claiming parts of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham are 'no-go areas'

Former mayoral candidate says he was ‘misconstrued’ in interview after he also condemned Lee Anderson

Evening Standard

Tory MP Paul Scully claims there are ‘no-go’ areas in Birmingham and London

Ex-London minister’s comment about areas with large Muslim populations – for which he apologised – described as ‘utter drivel’

The Guardian - UK

The money Sunak ‘saves’ from HS2 seems to be shrinking with every announcement

While the PM makes empty promises to the north, he lacks the courage to cancel the white elephant London-Birmingham line, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Lycett, Acosta and Duran Duran condemn Birmingham’s 100% arts budget cut

Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move

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Mayor says 21-mile cycleway alongside HS2 route a ‘no-brainer’ for West Midlands

Andy Street has asked HS2 Ltd to keep haul tracks for path linking Birmingham and Coventry

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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard review – growing up and apart

Tragedy severs five friends from their past in a subtly radical novel set in a working-class area of Birmingham

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The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art

From an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and painting

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Farmer Rish! woos the NFU conference in full-on panic to secure rural vote

Downing Street team was in love-bombing mode at farmers’ union meeting in Birmingham

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Exclusive: Apple Maps to get a big boost in the UK — Data collection to fuel improved navigation, detail, and place information with focus on Birmingham, Manchester, and London

Apple has today announced it will begin an eight-month project driving vehicles around the UK to gather data for its Maps app.

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Peaky Blinders creator calls HS2 ‘gamechanger’ for West Midlands

Steven Knight, who is building a film studio in Birmingham, says line is catalyst for activity as data shows £10bn boost to region

Evening Standard

Delays on London Euston-Birmingham rail route after landslip repair work

Tens of thousands of Avanti West Coast and London Northwestern Railway passengers were affected by the landslip

International Business Times

10 Most Dangerous Cities In The US: Unveiling America's Riskiest Urban Centers

The issue of safety in America's most dangerous cities is multifaceted, influenced by a combination of socioeconomic factors, community dynamics, and law enforcement strategies. While efforts to address crime and improve public safety are ongoing, there's no one-size-fits-all solution.

Evening Standard

Man dies of measles in Ireland after 'trip to Birmingham'

Health officials have raised concern over an outbreak in West Midlands

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘does not understand how HS2 will function as railway’

Parliament’s spending watchdog says cancellation of high-speed line’s northern leg raises ‘urgent questions’

Evening Standard

HS2 London to Birmingham cost balloons to £68billion with no open date set for Euston, report reveals

MPs are 'more concerned about the HS2 programme than ever before'

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