Birmingham is one of those places; I want to love it, really I do. Maybe when they've finished building it I'll get to like it a bit...

Shelby, Shelby & Shelby For all its faults, and it has many, believe me (dodgy Birmingham accents, PJ Harvey all over the soundtra...

Birmingham has never been pretty. In the late sixties they were pulling down their slums and erecting shiny new skyscrapers. And it wasn...