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As they reissue their Halloween album Danse Macabre, we rate the best of a band who went from Birmingham to blazer-clad world domination

The official sound of prog, made in Birmingham

Department may be left with just 23 employees, with its 16 youth centres at risk, raising fears for young people’s futures

One of UK’s largest ever inquests to begin at Birmingham and Solihull coroner’s court with cases of 62 people

The four leadership candidates strutted around Birmingham last week like celebrities, but members seem unimpressed – and MPs think whoever wins might not even last until the next election. How do the Conservatives move forward?

Singer enjoyed event – and so did Conservative members … but his appearance might not win him new fans

Police seek driver believed to have deliberately driven vehicle into crowd of people at university freshers’ event

Hope, it seems, springs eternal in Tory breasts. No matter how disastrous the outlook might appear for their party, members can always cheer themselves up by exercising their right to choose new leaders, in the full knowledge that within months they will be plotting against them for not being “conservative”…

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