Our streets are overrun with criminality linked to these properties, and the housing benefit team descends further into chaos ...

On Monday night a group attacked the property, smashing the windows and pelting it with stones. The same thing happened on ...

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Tonight, BBC Panorama will air a special episode about supported exempt accommodation, exposing the exploitative practices that are rife in the sector in Birmingham. The hour-long documentary (online ...

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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 Midwich Cuckoos (1957) is perhaps the easiest of sci-fi author John Wyndham’s novels to love. You might ascribe this to its neat elevator pitch of a plot: one day, every woman in a village becomes ...

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 ...

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