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Labour’s Saima Ahmed elected new councillor in Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East by-election
Staff Reporter
October 7, 2022
A Labour candidate has won the Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East by-election with a landslide result, despite an overall low voter turnout. Saima Ahmed won the council seat after receiving 2,410…
Woodland Trust provides £300k funding to boost tree planting across the West Midlands
Staff Reporter
October 6, 2022
The Woodland Trust has delivered a major boost for communities across the region by providing nearly £300,000 to ramp up tree planting and help the West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA)…
Two suspects arrested as man, 52, stabbed to death in gang fight outside Coventry mosque
Staff Reporter
October 3, 2022
Two men have been arrested after a man was stabbed to death at a Coventry mosque last night. Officers were called to the Jamiah Masjid & Institute at the junction of…
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market searching for staff and musicians for 2022
Staff Reporter
October 3, 2022
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is once again looking to recruit more than 200 people to support its stalls when it returns to the city centre on 3 November. Organisers of…
Pro-Palestinian activists crash two vans into UK factory owned by Israeli arms company
Staff Reporter
October 3, 2022
Pro-Palestinian activists have crashed two vans into a factory in Shenstone as part of an ongoing attack on the military drone making company. According to the activists, two vans were…
Ukrainian creatives begin Eurovision 2023 Birmingham bid logo design after city shortlisted
Staff Reporter
August 15, 2022
A group of Ukrainian creatives have been invited to design Birmingham’s Eurovision bid logo, after it made the first-round shortlist to host Eurovision 2023. The artists put pen to paper,…
Former teacher jailed for historical sex assaults on girls over four decades
Staff Reporter
August 15, 2022
A former school teacher has been jailed after admitting a string of historical sexual assaults on young girls between 1984 and 2005. The crimes came to light in January 2020…
Brand new singles revealed for E4’s Married at First Sight UK
Staff Reporter
August 15, 2022
Following a record-breaking run last Autumn, Married at First Sight UK is heading back down the aisle for a brand new, bigger and bolder series on E4. The new series…
Palestine Action activists vandalise Tamworth warehouse to protest “Israeli state-terror”
Staff Reporter
August 8, 2022
Pro-Palestinian activists have staged a rooftop protest at a packaging factory in Tamworth, vandalising the building in protest at its supposed links with Israeli arms, they claim. Daubing red paint across…
Three youths found guilty of shooting and paralysing teenage boy in Birmingham
Staff Reporter
August 3, 2022
Three people have been found guilty of shooting and paralysing a 13-year-old boy in a brutal attack which took place in Hockley, Birmingham. Zidann Edwards and Diago Anderson, both 20,…