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Simmer Down Festival promises to heat up Birmingham for a day of free music and celebration
Rangzeb Hussain
July 16, 2019
The annual Simmer Down Festival returns this weekend to Handsworth Park in Birmingham with a promise to deliver an exciting programme of music and activities for all the family. The…
Lowkey, Lady Sanity and Foka Wolf to perform at the Festival of Audacity after-party
Vimal Korpal
July 15, 2019
Rapper Lowkey will be headlining a huge afterparty of hip-hop and art activism to mark the end of Free Radical's Festival of Audacity this weekend, taking place at The Mill…
Stop-and-search in progress in Small Heath after alleged knife crime incident
Rangzeb Hussain
July 11, 2019
West Midlands Police are conducting a stop-and-search operation in the Small Heath area of Birmingham this afternoon after an alleged crime knife crime incident. Local residents who live around the…
Angry parents vent as ‘No Outsiders’ protests resume at Parkfield School in Birmingham
Staff Reporter
July 9, 2019
In response to Parkfield Community School in Birmingham announcing that it will be restarting a modified version of equality lessons programme 'No Outsiders' this autumn, protesters against the LGBT-inclusive lessons have re-instigated…
Young artists to bring open-mic poetry night to stunning grounds at Blakesley Hall
Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
The Ramblers Ball - a popular open-mic poetry night created by Digbeth’s social enterprise café Evolve - is back next week, and this time it is hitting the road! Taking over the…
‘Yummy Brummie’ Glynn Purnell steps up to the plate for Longbridge Food Festival
Staff Reporter
July 3, 2019
Birmingham’s finest foodie, Glynn Purnell, will be heading to Longbridge Town Centre later this month for its 2019 Food Festival. Fresh from his appearances on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, the 'Yummy…
Paradise Circus multi-storey car park to become a stage for multi-media arts event
Rangzeb Hussain
June 20, 2019
An exciting arts event which includes painting, spoken word, and video projection, comes to the Paradise Circus multi-storey car park in Birmingham this month. The event - titled 'Re-imagining the Opposition:…
Teenager pleads guilty to viciously murdering 18-year-old, stabbing him 15 times using “Rambo-style knife”
Staff Reporter
June 14, 2019
A teenager has today pleaded guilty to the murder of Hazrat Umar, who was fatally stabbed in Birmingham earlier this year. The 17-year-old - Adam Muhammad of Hawksyard Road in Birmingham -…
The all-female longboarding group aiming to get more Birmingham women of colour into adventure sports
Paul Stringer
June 14, 2019
An award-winning organisation based in Birmingham are looking for public support to get more women of colour into adventure sports by 2020. GirlDreamer is a Birmingham based company that provides…
Two Years On: Remembering the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire
Staff Reporter
June 14, 2019
Today marks the second anniversary of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire, in which at least 72 people were killed. On 14 June 2017, at 1am in the morning, a fire took hold…
