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Who's top dog in Birmingham? Our day at the city's weirdest — and cutest — event

Paneer and bloating on the Bearwood snack trail

Yorks cafes: inside the collapse of a coffee kingdom

Cheap, hairy, hilarious: Brum’s queens are embracing ‘bastard’ drag

The new Brummies

The decline of a royal town

‘A horror story’: the pet shop in Aston ruffling feathers

They were Brum’s answer to The Beatles — until Harold Wilson sued them

My hunt for the Brummie officers of post-war Bosnia — and other observations

In Moseley, a multi-million pound London property firm is making life hell

The Birmingham neo-Nazi who became ‘World Führer’

A parents’ revolt and new head at the Selly Oak primary in £400k of debt

Birmingham and the birth of British fascism

The secret lives of Birmingham’s Santas

The McDonald's ramp that was an architectural jewel

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Mozart’s angels: how the CBSO is trying to win over the under-30s

Beyond beer and bratwurst, what do Christmas markets bring to Brum?

‘Woeful consultation’ and ‘broken promises’ over council asset sales

Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age

Ghost

Buy tickets – The Dispatch presents: A Great Big Christmas Quiz – Temper and Brown, 12-13 Albion St

Che Guevara and the chief executive

This 19th-century Birmingham radical helped end slavery

The men who raised the flags

Au Pairs agreed to split everything equally. Now their frontwoman wants it all

After 859 years, the future of the Bullring’s markets is hanging in the balance

The numbers that reveal Birmingham didn’t have to go bankrupt

The murder that never was: the strange story of Birmingham’s last public execution

Let the battle for Moseley commence!

Red flags: The non-existent company behind Brum's Union Jacks

Does this councillor know where his on-the-run criminal brother is?

The headteacher’s missing receipts: how did a Selly Oak school get into £400,000 of debt?

Disappearing furniture and tears in the break room: the chaotic end to two decades of Doctors

Competing vigils for sex attack victim expose divides among Smethwick’s Sikhs

The impatience of Richard Parker

Peter Phillips: prince of pop art

How Harborne's lost railway directed Birmingham's future

The flags dividing Birmingham

Alum Rock’s Kasim Ali on his new novel, Trojan Horse and writing men

The Raven Hotel was left empty for 15 years. This month it set on fire

Danny, champion of Sutton Park

Inside the dramatic deselection of 11 Labour councillors

Has Moseley lost its edge?

Pebble Mill Studios and Birmingham's golden age of telly

Small plates vs late night drinks: can the two sides of Stirchley coexist?

Manchester’s economy is leaving Birmingham behind

The revolution starts in Moseley

The Solihull band that influenced Sonic Youth and Blur

Black Monday: two of Brum’s best-loved venues close

Woon Wing Yip built an empire. Is it in decline?

The battle for The Close

Chicken Quarter: fair or fowl?

Small Heath is drowning in rubbish. So why doesn’t the council’s data say so?

Old square, new tricks

A new local publishing model is giving regional titles the wake-up call they need

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