32 h. ago 'If Tel Aviv thugs can petrify police at Aston Villa match we're all in trouble'

Police have decided to ban Tel Aviv football fans from a match in Birmingham on the grounds they cannot guarantee anyone's safety. Fleet Street Fox wonders what the point of policing is

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58 h. ago Harrowing moment man erupts into human fireball and stumbles into Birmingham street

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Shocking video footage captured the moment a man was on fire in a busy city centre before a hero Good Samaritan rushed to the scene to douse the flames and save his life

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4 d. ago Girl, 15, bundled into car in 'kidnapping' by two men before being saved

Heroic members of the public came to the rescue of a 15-year-old girl as two men were seen allegedly trying to kidnap her by bundling her into a car on a busy street in Birmingham

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5 d. ago Horrifying moment teen girl is bundled into car by 2 men in suspected kidnapping before being saved by have

THIS is the terrifying moment two men try to kidnap a young teenager from a busy city centre street in broad daylight. Footage of the attack on Ladypool Road, Birmingham, was captured on CCTV just after 16:00 on Saturday. The 15-year-old girl can be seen walking along the street before being approached by two men....

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6 d. ago ‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidationWhen Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London it is clear that if these trends continue white people will become a minority in Britain,” it read.The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers

He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his disturbing new worksHistory weighs on Kerry James Marshall, though not all that heavily. When he talks about the hefty subjects of his art – from slavery to civil rights – he does so with a disarming, disquieting lightness. Maybe that’s because at almost 70 years old, and at the peak of his popularity, he’s seen it all.Marshall grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, just a few blocks away from where the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a white supremacist attack that killed four young black girls, took place in 1963. When his family moved to Los Angeles, they ended up right in the middle of the 1965 Watts riots, a six-day uprising fuelled by growing racial tension in the poorest part of the city. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man is left fighting for his life and three others are injured after shooting at popular nightclub

The shooting happened at around 3am on Saturday at the popular Mango nightclub on Bristol Street in the city centre of Birmingham.

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