Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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World News@lemmy.ml • 5 months ago

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Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

filoria ( @filoria@lemmy.ml )

World News@lemmy.ml • 5 months ago

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The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on

Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial city but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay out and children grow up below the poverty line.

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23•5 months ago
What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!