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@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social on it again. What still amazes me is how discussion of HS2 is still on a national level, not the impact all the delays and dithering have had on Digbeth.
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Also today: ‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’ in The Guardian, a documentary on five Wolves fans who left for the 1986 world cup and never came back, and your to do list.
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However, at the eleventh hour, it was revealed that the Tories had been negotiating with the other parties and secured all scrutiny positions.
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Top story: at Birmingham city council’s meeting last Friday, Labour and Reform tried to get into bed with the Tories, agreeing to divvy up seven scrutiny roles between them.
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In New Orleans, 1999: Prof. Charles Craddock was one of the first people to hear about a drug that would go on to change the course of medical history.
'You could hear the gasp go round the room,' he told The Dispatch.
“They don’t want to take the phone away because it causes a huge meltdown."
Smartphones have changed young people's lives with many parents and teachers in despair. How are Birmingham's schools and their pupils faring?
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John Paddington
27 years on, and he claims to be at the vanguard of a revolution in UK medicine, one that will speed-up access to potentially life-saving blood cancer treatments, with Birmingham at its very heart.
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