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A protest will be held tonight (Sept 24) against council plans to relocate the Walsall Leather Museum building.

Led by fashion designer Lauren Broxton, protesters will meet at 5.30pm outside the Town Hall on Lichfield Street, Walsall.

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The demonstration is taking place ahead of a meeting of Walsall Council’s cabinet.

Members are set to rubber stamp plans of purchasing a new town centre building for the museum, and the disposal of the existing museum building at Littleton Street West to Walsall College.

The Conservative-led authority’s plans to move the museum into an unknown town centre location were first announced last year in the 2025/26 budget.

It was hoped the move would create an an

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