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Anger at Grenfell sprinkler delays which are fitted in just one in FIVE tower blocks

The cost of sprinklers is estimated at £500,000 per block. Birmingham City Council has spent £93million on 181 systems in its stock of 188 high-rises – 64% of the sprinkler installations in the survey.

Daily Mirror

The tower block where families are left gagging from 'smells of sewage and death'

Pleck House tower block in Birmingham has been left stinking of sewage due to a blocked waste pipe for weeks and the foul smell has left residents gagging

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£250m boost as Ashes and other major cricket tests coming to Birmingham

England & Wales Cricket Board reveals new seven-year allocation with Edgbaston stadium among those to benefit

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Plans revealed for 37-storey resi and student property project

Sama Investment is eyeing run-down industrial site in Birmingham to building more than 1,100 units

Birmingham Post

Vote looms over future vision for Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter

Businesses and residents are being invited to have their say on new 'neighbourhood plan' which aims to shape the next decade of historic district

Birmingham Post

Moda Living announces expansion plans for Birmingham residential project

Developer wants to boost New Garden Square scheme in Edgbaston by up to 1,600 units to rent

Birmingham Post

'The council is charging me £700 just for being a landlord - I'm furious'

A Birmingham city centre landlord has hit out at a fee issued by the council, demanding to know what the payment would be spent on

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Labour MP hits out at party’s ‘putsch’ against Birmingham council chief

Ian Ward has said he will fight to stay on as city council leader after a critical Campaign Improvement Board report.

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New masterplan revealed for huge Birmingham Innovation Quarter

Commercial property group Bruntwood SciTech has teamed up with Aston University and Birmingham City Council to reveal vision for land in city centre

Birmingham Post

DWP warns Universal Credit claimants to act over expected rent increases

Many are expecting rent increases as we head into the new financial year

Nottingham Post

Brazen fly-tipper dumps 12 huge bags of ONIONS on quiet street - but is caught on camera

A Mercedes van driver has been pictured by Birmingham City Council CCTV brazenly dumping 12 large bags of onions on a quiet road, with the vehicle later seized

Daily Mirror

Driver slapped with £105 fine for driving down bus lane before noticing scam giveaway

Delivery driver Tony Hill received a bogus fine in the post claiming he had driven in a bus lane six months ago and demanding £105, before he realised it was from scammers

Daily Mirror

Council set to support £42m plan to keep Edgbaston cricket ground in ‘elite tier of international cricket venues’

Edgbaston having to compete to maintain place as 'country's best cricket venue outside of London'

Birmingham Post

Whole family forced to live cramped in single room in three-year housing wait nightmare

Oana Stafie, 40, said her family have been sharing a single room with a double bed and two single beds are crammed into it after spending three years on a council waiting list

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Digbeth Loc. Studios launched with mission to create 760 jobs

New film and TV production studios will be housed in disused warehouses in Birmingham district

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Elderly residents are 'prisoners in own tower block' over fear of machete-waving yobs

Elderly and vulnerable tenants of a 10-storey apartment block in Birmingham, have revealed that they're worried to leave their flats due to "machete-yielding" youths

Wales Online

OAPs 'kept prisoner in their homes by machete-waving yobs' in city block of flats

Armed youths are said to have taken over communal areas and left elderly people scared to leave flats

Daily Mirror

'Britain's grottiest street' where mountains of fly-tipping can be seen from space

The stinking 7ft tall piles now stretches almost as far as the eye can see in Aston, Birmingham and contains car parts, mattresses, fridges, beds, sofas and other household waste

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Homeowner who built house on DRIVEWAY forced to tear it down in planning row

Mr Singh's family previously said they were using the 'mini-property' as a gym and were defiant it was staying put. But the homeowner has significantly reduced the structure of the approved garage.

Daily Mirror

Residents' despair over 'UK's most neglected street with post-apocalyptic scenes like The Last of Us'

Locals cannot believe the state of the road with 'crater-like' potholes, mountains of rubbish, and burnt-out cars

Manchester Evening News

Driver had bailiffs sent to house after number plate mix-up

Steven Ward woke to find bailiffs knocking at his door after a W on his car registration was mistaken for another letter

Daily Mirror

Man forced to pay bailiffs £500 fine after council misreads his number plate

Steven Ward, 41, says he was woken up by bailiffs from enforcement firm CDER Group threatening to take his and his girlfriend’s cars off their driveway

Wales Online

Bailiffs made man pay £500 and threatened to take car after number plate mix-up

After working through the night, Steven was woken by a knock at his door demanding payment

Wales Online

Council mocked for painting tiny cycle lane that's barely the length of a bike

Locals have branded it 'bizarre' and a waste of taxpayers' money

Daily Mirror

Mum-of-7 racks up £1,000 in Clear Air Zone fines while visiting her son in hospital

One of Carly Caldwell's seven children was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in July 2021 and placed in Parkview Clinic in Moseley. During her trips back and forth to support him she was hit with the fines.

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