Always read the small print: The extraordinary case of the bungling council that sold a run down semi for £395,000... and threw in a school worth millions by mistake when the solicitor 'signed the wrong form'

Daily Mail - Oct 5, 2026

The error came to light ten years later when George Dixon Primary School considered becoming an academy and found Birmingham City Council no longer own the building.

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