Lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other professional-services grunts are drawn to London partly for the same reasons financial-services firms cluster there the global ubiquity of English and a time zone midway between the rich old world and emerging Asia.

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In a statement Birmingham and Solihull NHS cluster said it understood people's concerns but it was conducting a wide review of urgent care services.

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