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The Latest Breaking News from the West Midlands

Labour and Tory politicians honoured in New Year list

Sadiq Khan, Andy Street and Nick Gibb have all received knighthoods, while Emily Thornberry has been made a dame.

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‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park

Birmingham City University thinktank imagines new approach to urban areas and land use across the region

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Revealed: property developers behind ‘breakfast club’ that donated £130,000 to Labour

Funding from property firms raises questions over loopholes in political finance rules

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Heart attack patients told to take themselves to hospitals due to ‘significant pressures’ on ambulance service

Leaked memo reveals that, in the West Midlands, category three and four patients will be asked if they can make their own way to an emergency department

The Independent UK

Boy, four, killed following horror bus collision in West Midlands

A four-year-old boy has died after being hit by a bus in the West Midlands.

Evening Standard

Royal Shakespeare Company to look at AI and immersive technology in theatre

The RSC has previously used motion capture technology in a performance of Dream

The Independent UK

Owners’ joy as cat missing from Scottish home found 300 miles away in Coventry

Beans went missing from its home near Glasgow before turning up weeks later south of the border in the West Midlands.

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Gang behind £2.6m raids called themselves ‘Sticky Bandits’ after Home Alone

A gang who raided businesses across the West Midlands in a £2.6 million crime spree called themselves the “Sticky Bandits” in reference to the burglars from the Home Alone Christmas films.

The Independent UK

Watch: Starmer and Reeves speak after Labour’s £40bn tax-raising Budget

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves deliver remarks during a visit to the West Midlands after the Budget announcement on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer will ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of Budget

The prime minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech in the West Midlands today

The Independent UK

Boy, 13, stabbed to death in own home in Oldbury as police launch manhunt

A 13-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in Oldbury

The Independent UK

Police hunt two bulldogs as man dies in garden after suspected mauling

Two dogs have already been seized by police and officers are now searching for two American Bulldogs

Evening Standard

Pat Fleetwood-Walker obituary

Other lives: Educationist who strove to promote sustainable communities in the West Midlands

The Guardian - UK

Has Labour given up fighting Nigel Farage in Clacton? Candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul ‘sent to West Midlands’

The party has reportedly sent its candidate from the seaside constituency in Essex to campaign in the West Midlands instead

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Cleaner air in West Midlands could prevent 2,000 deaths a year, study finds

Meeting WHO guidelines would avoid many cases of diseases and save the NHS millions, research shows

The Independent UK

Embrace technology, but don’t forget the power of people

I am a food and drink wholesaler, supplying thousands of products to thousands of convenience retailers across the West Midlands and, despite the advances of technology over the years, there is no denying wholesaling is a traditional business. From its most humble beginnings, it has centred around people, and this…

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer breaks silence on Diane Abbott Labour election ban

Questioned about Ms Abbott while campaigning in the West Midlands, the Labour leader said she has not been barred from standing as a Labour candidate

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak defiant in ‘taking fight to Labour’ despite shock election losses

The Prime Minister insisted his plan was the right way forward, after the Tories lost the West Midlands mayoral contest to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour.

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Labour’s Richard Parker defeats Andy Street in tight West Midlands mayoral race after Sadiq Khan wins third term in London – as it happened

Labour has secured mayoral victories in London, Greater Manchester, Salford, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Liverpool today

The Guardian - UK

Andy Street and Ben Houchen turn to Boris Johnson in mayoral election run-in

Incumbents promote messages of support from ex-PM despite largely avoiding linking themselves with wider Tory party

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: cheering Red Rum in the Grand National

Phil Loach photographed the streets he’d known since childhood in the West Midlands for 50 years, capturing moments of everyday drama and quiet humour

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Health experts to probe increase in tuberculosis as cases rise in London and elsewhere

London, the West Midlands and the North West of England have seen the largest increases in TB cases

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'National incident' declared after measles cases soar - with some unvaccinated children forced to isolate for 3 weeks

New figures have shown an increase in measles cases in England and Wales, as MMR vaccine uptake declines

The Independent UK

HS2 cuts throw away once-in-a-generation opportunity, warns David Cameron

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced HS2 will no longer extend beyond the West Midlands.

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