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🚨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:
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It’s March 1940. Blackouts are in force across Birmingham and gas masks bump against torsos as citizens bustle around the streets.
At 38 Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston, two men are writing a note about their current research project: how to build a workable nuclear bomb.
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Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch are Jewish refugees, physicists, and housemates. Their discovery will change modern warfare - and geopolitics - forever.
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Birmingham Dispatch retweeted
Jun 11
Sheffield looks like one city - but is it? 🤷
People’s experiences of living here can be very different, depending on who they are and where they live.
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“They don’t want to take the phone away because it causes a huge meltdown."
Smartphones have changed young people's lives with many parents and teachers in despair. How are Birmingham's schools and their pupils faring?
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Birmingham Dispatch retweeted
Sister sites @ManchesterMill, @sheffieldtrib, @theglasgowbell and @brumdispatch are also doing sterling work in their respective cities. This by @joshi is the single best piece on Andy Burnham produced to date, and was rightly picked up by the nationals
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If you’ve looked at our homepage today, you might have noticed the progress bar has turned a very encouraging shade of white...
As of this afternoon, 506 brilliant people have joined our campaign 🙌
We are exactly at the halfway mark!
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Your Monday briefing has arrived ‼️📍
Top story: at Birmingham city council’s meeting last Friday, Labour and Reform tried to get into bed with the Tories, agreeing to divvy up seven scrutiny roles between them.
Photo of the week ron.a.photo / Instagram
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However, at the eleventh hour, it was revealed that the Tories had been negotiating with the other parties and secured all scrutiny positions.
Click the link below for further background and information on the above story.
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Also today: ‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’ in The Guardian, a documentary on five Wolves fans who left for the 1986 world cup and never came back, and your to do list.
Read here:
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In New Orleans, 1999: Prof. Charles Craddock was one of the first people to hear about a drug that would go on to change the course of medical history.
'You could hear the gasp go round the room,' he told The Dispatch.
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27 years on, and he claims to be at the vanguard of a revolution in UK medicine, one that will speed-up access to potentially life-saving blood cancer treatments, with Birmingham at its very heart.
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Delays, pint-induced rants, and one very angry Irishman. What will it take to get phase 4 of the Eastside Metro Extension finished?
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Find out in today's story, out now:
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Birmingham Dispatch retweeted
Incredible journalism here from @brumdispatch! If you want to see more reporting like this please do think about subscribing...
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Today's Monday Briefing is out now:
⚖️@RTCORGUK founder charged with murder
🪩@RichParkerLab new nightlife changes incl more night buses and lobbying for tax changes
📻The Dispatch goes on @TimesRadio
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Today’s story is out now:
People are living in Brum’s abandoned buildings. What happens when there’s a blaze?
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Have you read yesterday's story on Operation Fearless yet?
Plus, don't miss our Brum in Brief which keeps you up to date with the West Midlands' news of the week.
Click the link below to read🔗
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Birmingham Dispatch retweeted
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Next week, my colleagues at @sheffieldtrib are up for the @PrivateEyeNews Paul Foot Award. And for the next few weeks, Sheffielders can join The Tribune as members for FREE.
Please share this link with your Sheffield friends and colleagues to join up.
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