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* Galactically successful international skating treasures Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, superstar perfect-score-earning, Olympic-champion ice dancers of Sarajevo 1984's "Bolero" fame, were born and raised in Nottingham and met on the ice of the city's skating club as teenagers; "Torvill and Dean" still consider it home and are beloved by generations of its residents, with streets and even a tram named after them.
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*''{{Series/Peaky Blinders}}'' is set in Birmingham and is based loosely on a real gang from the city.
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* ''Everybody's Gone to the Rapture'', sets the end of the world in the quiet village of Yaughton in Shropshire, this is as strange and odd as you might expect.
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* ''Everybody's Gone to the Rapture'', ''VideoGame/EverybodysGoneToTheRapture'', sets the end of the world in the quiet village of Yaughton in Shropshire, this is as strange and odd as you might expect.
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* ''Theatre/TheBeauxStratagem'' is an 18th century RestorationComedy set in the Staffordshire town of Lichfield. It centres around two would-be [[ConMan Con Men]] trying to embezzle the town's wealthy and eligible young ladies.
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* ''Theatre/TheBeauxStratagem'' is an 18th century RestorationComedy set in the Staffordshire town of Lichfield. It centres around two would-be [[ConMan Con Men]] trying to embezzle the town's wealthy and eligible young ladies.
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It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlands regions; this split is currently only used for statistical purposes and for TV news coverage.
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It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlands regions; as of 2023 this split is currently only used for statistical purposes and for TV news coverage.
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* The Stamper Brothers, who founded a company called Ashby Computers and Graphics (literally in the middle of the country - Ashby is about a mile off being the most central point in the UK) which after a period as Ultimate Play the Game, changed its name to Rare, creators of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' and ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''. They're still in the Midlands, but now based in Twycross.
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* The Stamper Brothers, who founded a company called Ashby Computers and Graphics (literally in the middle of the country - Ashby is about a mile off being the most central point in the UK) which after a period as Ultimate Play the Game, changed its name to Rare, Creator/{{Rare}}, creators of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' and ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''. They're still in the Midlands, but now based in Twycross.
** It's been referenced a couple of times in their games: In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the haunted church in [[BigBoosHaunt Mad Monster Mansion]] is modeled after the Saint James Parish Church located in the village, and "Twycross, England" can be read beneath the stern of the eponymous cargo steamboat in [[NotSoSafeHarbor Rusty Bucket Bay]].
** It's been referenced a couple of times in their games: In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the haunted church in [[BigBoosHaunt Mad Monster Mansion]] is modeled after the Saint James Parish Church located in the village, and "Twycross, England" can be read beneath the stern of the eponymous cargo steamboat in [[NotSoSafeHarbor Rusty Bucket Bay]].
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* Videogame developer Creator/{{Rare}} is based in Twycross, a fact that's been referenced a couple of times in their games: In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the haunted church in [[BigBoosHaunt Mad Monster Mansion]] is modeled after the Saint James Parish Church located in the village and "Twycross, England" can be read beneath the stern of the eponymous cargo steamboat in [[NotSoSafeHarbor Rusty Bucket Bay]].
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The largest cities of the Midlands include Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Somewhat deprived in places, Birmingham and Nottingham currently have a rather bad reputation for gun crime. Coventry, meanwhile, has been named [[http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-named-most-dangerous-city-12408683 the most dangerous city in the UK]] and the seventh [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coventry-named-seventh-most-dangerous-9568642 most dangerous in Europe]].
The cities of the Midlands are noted for having a larger than usual percentage of ethnic minorities. In the city of Leicester over 50% of the population is an ethnic minority, and Leicestershire also hosts the largest Diwali celebration (the Festival of Light) outside of India. Special mention should go to Belgrave Road in Leicester, commonly known as the Golden Mile for its absurdly high number of gold merchants, jewellery stores, and banks (it's literally door-to-door), with every business run or owned by an ethnic minority. Leicestershire is notoriously proud of its multicultural society and while racism is of course always a bad thing, there it becomes ''completely'' unacceptable, considered even lower than knife and drug crime - and rarer.
The cities of the Midlands are noted for having a larger than usual percentage of ethnic minorities. In the city of Leicester over 50% of the population is an ethnic minority, and Leicestershire also hosts the largest Diwali celebration (the Festival of Light) outside of India. Special mention should go to Belgrave Road in Leicester, commonly known as the Golden Mile for its absurdly high number of gold merchants, jewellery stores, and banks (it's literally door-to-door), with every business run or owned by an ethnic minority. Leicestershire is notoriously proud of its multicultural society and while racism is of course always a bad thing, there it becomes ''completely'' unacceptable, considered even lower than knife and drug crime - and rarer.
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The largest cities of the Midlands include Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Somewhat deprived in places, Birmingham and Nottingham currently have a rather bad reputation for gun crime. Coventry, meanwhile, has been named [[http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-named-most-dangerous-city-12408683 the most dangerous city in the UK]] and the seventh [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coventry-named-seventh-most-dangerous-9568642 most dangerous in Europe]].
The cities of the Midlands are noted for having a larger than usual percentage of ethnic minorities. In the city ofLeicester Leicester, over 50% of the population is an come from ethnic minority, minorities, and Leicestershire Leicester also hosts the largest Diwali celebration (the Festival of Light) outside of India. Special mention should go to Belgrave Road in Leicester, commonly known as the Golden Mile for its absurdly high number of gold merchants, jewellery stores, and banks (it's literally door-to-door), with every business run or owned by an ethnic minority. Leicestershire Furthermore, the 2021 Census confirmed that Birmingham is notoriously proud of its multicultural society and while racism also a White minority city, although since it is of course always a bad thing, there it becomes ''completely'' unacceptable, considered even lower rather bigger city than knife Leicester, it has a much wider range of ethnic groups compared to the latter, where the majority of people from ethnic minorities are Punjabi and drug crime - and rarer.
Gujarati Indians.
The cities of the Midlands are noted for having a larger than usual percentage of ethnic minorities. In the city of
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The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part (which was formerly part of Humberside) falls inside the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
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The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part (which was formerly part of Humberside) falls inside the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
OopNorth, and to a lesser extent so are towns like Chesterfield and Worksop (which are firmly in the orbit of Sheffield, an unambiguously northern city).
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The Midlands is between OopNorth and [[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]]. Land of The Free, Home of The Brummies. [[note]] Though of course, as is usual in Britain, Midlanders from outside Birmingham will get very annoyed if called a Brummie.[[/note]]
It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlands regions, this split is currently only used for statistical purposez and for TV news coverage.
The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part falls inside the Yorkshire and Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
The largest cities of the Midlands include [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]], Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Somewhat deprived in places, [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]] and Nottingham currently have a rather bad reputation for gun crime. Coventry, meanwhile, has been named [[http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-named-most-dangerous-city-12408683 the most dangerous city in the UK]] and the seventh [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coventry-named-seventh-most-dangerous-9568642 most dangerous in Europe]].
It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlands regions, this split is currently only used for statistical purposez and for TV news coverage.
The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part falls inside the Yorkshire and Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
The largest cities of the Midlands include [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]], Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Somewhat deprived in places, [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]] and Nottingham currently have a rather bad reputation for gun crime. Coventry, meanwhile, has been named [[http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-named-most-dangerous-city-12408683 the most dangerous city in the UK]] and the seventh [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coventry-named-seventh-most-dangerous-9568642 most dangerous in Europe]].
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The Midlands is between OopNorth and [[BritainIsOnlyLondon London]]. Land of The the Free, Home of The the Brummies. [[note]] Though of course, as is usual in Britain, Midlanders from outside Birmingham will get very annoyed if called a Brummie.[[/note]]
It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlandsregions, regions; this split is currently only used for statistical purposez purposes and for TV news coverage.
The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part (which was formerly part of Humberside) falls inside the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
The largest cities of the Midlands include[[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]], Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Somewhat deprived in places, [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]] Birmingham and Nottingham currently have a rather bad reputation for gun crime. Coventry, meanwhile, has been named [[http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-named-most-dangerous-city-12408683 the most dangerous city in the UK]] and the seventh [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coventry-named-seventh-most-dangerous-9568642 most dangerous in Europe]].
It broadly corresponds to the old Kingdom of Mercia (the dialect influenced Creator/JRRTolkien) and is split by the UK government into UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands and East Midlands
The Midlands is usually considered to contain the historic counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire and Huntingdonshire are occasionally considered part of the Midlands but fall outside the regions of the West Midlands or the East Midlands and are more often considered parts of UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry, UsefulNotes/EastAnglia or the UsefulNotes/HomeCounties. Lincolnshire is part of the East Midlands region but its northern part (which was formerly part of Humberside) falls inside the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the county is often excluded from being part of the Midlands because of its large coastline. Opinion is divided as to whether most of Cheshire, (outside its northern industrial belt and the bits in the orbit of Liverpool or Manchester) counts as OopNorth or Midlands. Similarly, the northern part of Derbyshire, the spur pointing up into the Pennines and bordering Lancashire and Yorkshire, is often considered as the southern boundary of OopNorth.
The largest cities of the Midlands include
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Midlanders are often thought of as being stupid, possibly due to most accents being non-rhotic with vowels so sloppy that they can successfully dirty up any nearby consonants too. This results in the Midlands Drawl, which involves either taking as long as you can to say as little as you can, or saying as much as you can as slowly as you can. [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands The Black Country]] accent makes people assume 'thickie' whereas a Staffordshire accent is more generic. An East Midlands accent actually sounds much like OopNorth to the untrained ear.
By a quirk of geography, the Midlands are actually slanted so "the North West" region is actually further south than the centre of the East Midlands.[[note]]Debate persists as to whether most of Cheshire, outside its northern industrialised belt, properly belongs in the Midlands. Parts of northern Derbyshire, especially Buxton and Glossop, are considered to be just about part of the north. Refer to OopNorth for further details.[[/note]]
By a quirk of geography, the Midlands are actually slanted so "the North West" region is actually further south than the centre of the East Midlands.[[note]]Debate persists as to whether most of Cheshire, outside its northern industrialised belt, properly belongs in the Midlands. Parts of northern Derbyshire, especially Buxton and Glossop, are considered to be just about part of the north. Refer to OopNorth for further details.[[/note]]
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Midlanders are often thought of as being stupid, possibly due to most accents being non-rhotic with vowels so sloppy that they can successfully dirty up any nearby consonants too. This results in the Midlands Drawl, which involves either taking as long as you can to say as little as you can, or saying as much as you can as slowly as you can. [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands The Black Country]] Country accent makes people assume 'thickie' whereas a Staffordshire accent is more generic. An East Midlands accent actually sounds much like OopNorth to the untrained ear.
By a quirk of geography, the Midlands are actually slanted so"the North the "North West" region is actually further south than the centre of the East Midlands.[[note]]Debate persists as to whether most of Cheshire, outside its northern industrialised belt, properly belongs in the Midlands. Parts of northern Derbyshire, especially Buxton and Glossop, are considered to be just about part of the north. Refer to OopNorth for further details.[[/note]]
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