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I'm Michelle Hussein.

This time we go and see a festival of 60,000 tulips that's not on the Dutch flatlands,

but up on the hill of an English castle that dates back to 1067.

We've also been visiting a historic town that is literally trying to turn itself

around and all because of the march of online shopping. We meet the larger-than-life engineer behind the rebirth of

Britain's most celebrated hydroplane and the women who are finding ways of keeping

public libraries going.

First, to the West Midlands, and if there's an English city that's created a signature dish

in the last 40 years, it's Birmingham.

Its ballty boom has made a unique contribution

to our national cuisine, but now there's a new trend.

As Adrian Goldberg, a seasoned observer

of the brommy food scene explains, where savory lead, sweet, is following.

It's Friday night on Ladypool Road and hungry customers are queuing around the block.

Nothing unusual in that, you might think.

Spark Hill has been busy most weekend night since the mid-1980s

when the Balti boom really kicked off.

Migrant chefs took thick-sourced curries from home

and tailored the ingredients to local tastes.

The resulting concoction was served in the same wok-like bowl that it had been cooked in.

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