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The Latest Breaking News from West Midlands

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

The Independent UK

‘Emotionally exhausting’: Richard Parker on his surprise mayoral win

West Midlands mayor talks about his victory, rebuilding trust in Labour and how he will handle the legacy of his predecessor

The Guardian - UK

Centrist Tories urge Andy Street to stand for parliament – and maybe one day for leader

One Nation moderates call on defeated West Midlands mayor to take ‘brand Andy’ to Westminster

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on the local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era

Editorial: The surprise defeat of the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, confirmed that the tectonic plates are shifting in British politics

The Guardian - UK

Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader – as it happened

Former home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election results

The Guardian - UK

Andy Street loses West Midlands mayor vote in election blow for Conservatives

The Conservative loss was part of a double blow for the Prime Minister after Labour’s Sadiq Khan secured a historic third term as Mayor of London.

Evening Standard

Andy Street’s West Midlands defeat shows the heavy baggage of brand Tory

Running as a ‘pseudo-independent’ in a region in which Labour faced its own hurdles was not enough to keep Tory mayor in office

The Guardian - UK

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Labour’s Richard Parker beats Andy Street to become West Midlands mayor

Tory incumbent’s hopes of a third term in the role dashed after close contest with multiple recounts

The Guardian - UK

‘Low skills blight lives’: Richard Parker on his mayoral ambitions

Labour’s West Midlands candidate says it’s time for a fresh start as he vows to create 150,000 new jobs

The Guardian - UK

Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix council funding crisis

Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands

The Guardian - UK

Sunak under growing pressure from Tories to return £10m Hester donation

West Midlands mayor and Scottish Conservatives openly question PM’s position that donor’s apology to Diane Abbott closed matter

The Guardian - UK

Tributes left at scene as girl, 10, found dead at house in Rowley Regis

A woman, 33, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the West Midlands death

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Excelr8 begins tie-up with Dynamics for 2024 BTCC season

Excelr8, which carried Tom Ingram to the 2022 crown, has moved its squad of four Hyundai i30 N Fastbacks into Dynamics’ facility in Droitwich, from which the West Midlands operation won a total of six BTCC overall titles with Honda machinery in the hands of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.

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Conservative MP writes to home secretary over Sikh activist’s sudden death

Avtar Singh Khanda’s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North America

The Independent UK

West Midlands mayor asks Home Secretary to transfer police commissioner powers

Andy Street said the police and crime commissioner model was ‘not holding West Midlands Police well enough to account to drive down crime’.

The Independent UK

West Midlands mayor ‘close’ to resigning after talks with PM about HS2

Andy Street said plans to axe the HS2 line from Birmingham to Manchester came ‘out of the blue’.

The Independent UK

Tory Party conference – live: Sunak set to finally confirm he will scrap HS2 rail link to Manchester

He will also use his speech to attack the last 30 years of “broken politics”

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The Guardian - UK

Increase benefits by inflation, top Tory urges Rishi Sunak

West Midlands mayor Andy Street says a ‘big chunk of people’ are hurting in cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Domestic abusers leaving prison to wear electronic tags in pilot scheme

Launching in east and West Midlands, the scheme is expected to be rolled out across England and Wales next year

The Guardian - UK

Share of EU trade for English and Welsh factories falls despite global trade boom

Make UK report says post-Brexit structural shift in trade is particularly hurting factories in north-west and West Midlands

The Guardian - UK

Two Midlands police officers found guilty over liaisons with abuse victims

Officers had sexual relationships with women after attending their homes in response to domestic violence reports

The Guardian - UK

Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 70s

The photographer travelled the West Midlands in a campervan to document the workers risking their lives to toil in steel mills, coal mines and blast furnaces

Birmingham Post

Lioncroft Wholesale eyes expansion outside West Midlands heartland

Chief executive of food and drink wholesaler outlines plans for firm three years after buyout from East End Foods which brought company back under family's control

Birmingham Post

Buoyant demand fosters further growth of new business and output - report

West Midlands companies benefited from positive demand trends in May and responded to this by creating more jobs and lifting business activity

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