Humanity Close News Today

GUY ADAMS: In the free-spending world of Birmingham City Council, financial profligacy is par for the course.

EXCLUSIVE: The leader of bankrupt Birmingham city council who took a trip to New York to celebrate his 50th birthday while the city falls into disarray wont return from his trip until next Monday.

JAN MOIR: After swindling £150,000 from chef Stephen Terry, who owns The Hardwick restaurant in Abergavenny, Nicola and Simon Nightingale (pictured) were fined a nominal £1 each.

Birmingham City Council spent millions on a botched IT system and spent another £184 million on its costly bid to stage the Commonwealth Games

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The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was in the Queens Speech, will enshrine a name change vote in law. 45 streets and statues are in the process of being cancelled in London.

Changing street names will no longer be possible without first holding small-scale referenda under government plans to stop local heritage being wiped out by woke campaign groups.

The reckoning: the toppling of monuments to slavery in the UK Aamna Mohdin and Rhi Storer © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian The toppling of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol was a bittersweet moment for 23-year-old Nasra Ayub. The community activist, who has always called the city home, remembers the long-standing campaigns to remove iconography of Colston in schools, public buildings and spaces. She graduated from the Un...

Or a combination of any or all of the above? For inspiration, we can look to Birmingham where this week the city council chose the names of six new streets on a "cohesion/shared values" theme. As you do nowadays. Locals can now look forward to living in Humanity Close, Equality Road, Diversity Grove, Respect Way, Inspire Avenue and Destiny Road. (I get the feeling they were running out of virtue-signalling steam with the last one). Were pretty keen on the jargon of inclusion ourselves, so surel...

SIGNS: Residents living in a deprived Birmingham suburb have accused a council of wasting taxpayers cash after unveiling "cringeworthy" new street names - including Respect Way and Humanity Close. RESIDENTS living in a Birmingham suburb have blasted a snowflake councils "woke" new street names - which include Respect Way, Humanity Close and Inspire Avenue. Baffled Brummies living in Perry Barr have branded the "cringe-worthy" road names as "PC nonsense" which do not reflect the reality of t...