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A main city centre road in Birmingham has been shut after about 80 fascia blocks on the eighth floor of a residential high-rise building became unstable. The alarm was raised at about 13:00 BST by a ...

The fate of so many of our region's high-rises remains uncertain, but there is still belief that they have a place in our ...