This article is yet another example of the dreadful standard of this website. The article is very poor- to think they were considering it as a featured article! The line about Birmingham 'is widely considered to be the second city' is just laughable. It is the second city. There is no debate about that. I changed it to 'is the second city' and the website editors came along and told me 'thanks for experimenting, now use the sandbox'. For a start that is an incredibley patronising way to speak to someone and on this instance it was entirely unjustified. Wikipedia is dreadful.  

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