The Latest Breaking News from Handsworth

The Birmingham neighbourhood is hugely significant in the Black British story – a history seemingly unknown to Tory MP Robert Jenrick – as revealed on a guided walk that remembers Nelson Mandela and Benjamin Zephaniah

Letters: Shuranjeet Singh points out that it was the Tories who threw his neighbourhood into neglect, while Edward Lindon fears the MP is sowing the seeds for tomorrow’s bumper crop of racial hatred and misery. Plus letters from Warwick Hillman, Janet Walmsley and Darryl Telles

Bishop of Birmingham says shadow justice secretary’s comments ‘entirely wrong’ and ‘deeply unhelpful’

Right Reverend Michael Volland said the shadow justice secretary’s views on the area were ‘entirely wrong’.

Tory leader says ‘nothing wrong with making observations’, after Jenrick said Handsworth was ‘as close as I’ve come to a slum in this country’

Kemi Badenoch said Robert Jenrick was ‘making an observation’ on his visit to Handsworth in Birmingham

Public hearings are due to start on a plan which includes building 3,500 homes on Sheffield’s green belt.

Letters: Shuranjeet Singh says that more help is needed in the battle against rogue landlords in Handsworth, Birmingham

Three other teenagers were injured in the Handsworth crash