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Why lifting the lockdown might be right for London but wrong for the Midlands

Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to lift the lockdown swiftly in some regions of the country, and keep it in place in others. It would mark a...

Jonathan Walker

Birmingham Mail

100 17.05.2020

The first lockdown was nationwide but future lockdowns will be local

The lockdown was imposed across the country. But the Government’s plan for controlling coronavirus in the future involves limited, local...

Jonathan Walker

Birmingham Mail

8 13.05.2020

How mayor Andy Street hopes to rebuild the West Midlands economy once lockdown ends

Birmingham’s Nightingale Hospital, built at the NEC specifically to handle coronavirus cases, has not admitted a single patient. And, touch wood,...

Jonathan Walker

Birmingham Mail

8 06.05.2020

Will Boris Johnson save local councils across the country from financial ruin?

I’ve had the chance to put a couple of questions to Ministers at the daily Downing Street press conference. Of course, you’re not meant to tell...

Jonathan Walker

Birmingham Mail

20 03.05.2020

Appeal as driver seriously hurt in Handsworth bus crash 'may have been in another collision minutes earlier'

Police are searching for witnesses as a man fights for his life after a serious crash involving a double-decker bus. The driver, 29, was badly...

Stephanie Balloo

Birmingham Mail

2 01.05.2020