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...In recent weeks bankrupt councils, including Birmingham and Nottingham, have announced deep cuts to services such as parks, youth support and social care, as they struggle to balance their books....
...Council funding was cut to the bone in the decade to 2020, hitting large urban areas such as Birmingham, which lost £1bn according to Cotton, particularly hard....
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...HS2 will still require custom-built trains, but they will run on existing lines north of Birmingham....
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...Rishi Sunak has been warned by the new US owners of Birmingham City football club, in which NFL superstar Tom Brady has a minority stake, that he will damage trust in Britain if he aborts the HS2 high-speed...
...and a professor at Birmingham university....
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...Trigger that in Birmingham and it has a knock-on effect across the Midlands and beyond.”...
...Khan said new compulsory voter identification rules — first introduced in May last year — risked damaging his chances of re-election....
...Birmingham city council said it did not comment on speculation....
...The cost of building the London-to-Birmingham stretch of the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway has jumped by a fifth in just four months, underlining the challenges the government still faces in delivering the...
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...It is also looking at other options all the way through to a new line between Handsacre, north of Birmingham, and High Legh, just south of Manchester airport — alleviating some of the existing line’s most...
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