Jack Walton
Journalist at Freelance
Writer and Editor at Birmingham Dispatch
Writer & editor: @liverpoolpost & @brumdispatch Email: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
livpost.co.uk | Abi Whistance |Jack Walton
Today’s article is a collaboration between The Post and our Birmingham-based sister publication, The Dispatch. We have been working together to dig into Redstone Training, a ‘skills’ provider which took a combined £3 million from regional mayors in Liverpool and Birmingham, which is now under investigation for a variety of allegations. If you want to read the full story, you’ll need to be a paying member.
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1 month ago |
birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles |Jack Walton
Dear readers — when leaked audio of a Birmingham councillor talking to an ex-convict about a plot to remove a number of her colleagues from the council appeared online earlier in the week, several people swiftly reached out to us to make sure we were aware of the clip. “Presume you’ve already heard this?” one source asked The Dispatch. “This is the nasty side of politics,” wrote another.
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1 month ago |
birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Jack Walton
Dear readers — the name Waseem Zaffar will mean different things to different people in Birmingham. To some, he is one of the city’s most accomplished local politicians — at the forefront of campaigns on clean air and low traffic neighbourhoods, as well as Birmingham City Council’s former cabinet member for transport. To others, he’s a highly controversial figure.
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2 months ago |
birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Jack Walton
Dear readers — the name Waseem Zaffar will mean different things to different people in Birmingham. To some, he is one of the city’s most accomplished local politicians — at the forefront of campaigns on clean air and low traffic neighbourhoods, as well as Birmingham City Council’s former cabinet member for transport. To others, he’s a highly controversial figure.
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2 months ago |
birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Jack Walton
By Jack WaltonOne time, while working on a story about the Britannia-owned Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, a colleague of mine was propositioned for a threesome in the hotel lobby. It was just after midday on a Tuesday. According to Tripadvisor, Birmingham’s own Britannia iteration — the simply named Britannia Hotel Birmingham — is 0.6 stars worse than the Adelphi. Make of that what you will. I’d travelled to the Britannia Hotel for a spot of Birmingham-bashing. I’d heard it was all the rage.
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