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£10,000 fine issued after Digbeth venue Lab 11 claims indoor event is actually outdoors
Staff Reporter
October 24, 2020
West Midlands Police have handed out a £10,000 fine to a venue in Digbeth after it held an event in a specially constructed marquee and claimed it was an outdoor event. Officers were called…
Clocks go back this weekend and here’s when and why…
Staff Reporter
October 24, 2020
Clocks will be going back in the UK early tomorrow morning as the nation returns to Greenwich Mean Time to prepare for darker days, but when does this happen and…
Muslim section at Handsworth Cemetery will be full in two weeks, city council confirms
Staff Reporter
October 24, 2020
Burial space in Handsworth Cemetery's Muslim section is almost full and with no additional available land at the site, Birmingham City Council has announced. The cemetery, which is based in the…
Guz Khan, Bharti Patel and Talisha Johnson among RTS Midlands Awards nominees
Staff Reporter
October 23, 2020
Guz Khan, Bharti Patel, Talisha ‘Tee Cee’ Johnson and Darshna Soni are among the local media names unveiled as nominees for this year's Royal Television Society awards in the Midlands. The RTS…
£100K worth of community art commissions launched across North Birmingham
Staff Reporter
October 23, 2020
Community organisations in North Birmingham have put a call out for local artists to create interactive art installations and projects to engage and empower local residents, to the tune of…
BBC secures the rights to broadcast Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
Staff Reporter
October 23, 2020
The BBC has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the upcoming 2022 Commonwealth Games, it has confirmed. The major multi-sport event, which will be held in Birmingham for the first time, will…
Police officer hit in face by firework as hooligans cause chaos in West Bromwich
Rangzeb Hussain
October 22, 2020
A shocking act of public disorder took place on Tuesday in West Bromwich town centre which terrorised members of the public as hooligans threw ignited fireworks which resulted in a…
New photographic exhibition celebrates Birmingham’s commonwealth heritage
Rangzeb Hussain
October 21, 2020
An exciting new photographic exhibition, which will take place during the Commonwealth Games 2022, will be previewed this Black History Month during a panel discussion celebrating Birmingham's diversity through rarely seen photographs…
Birmingham street artist joins forces with social enterprise cafe to support young people
Rangzeb Hussain
October 21, 2020
A Midlands-based social enterprise cafe has teamed up with satire artist Foka Wolf to call on Birmingham corporations to support its young people. The region's infamous satirical visual artist has joined forces with Evolve…
Street art painted in Digbeth to launch Birmingham-based show The Rap Game UK
Staff Reporter
October 20, 2020
A 7ft graffiti mural has been sprayed in Digbeth to launch the second series of BBC Three show The Rap Game UK. The BBC has released a video showing Birmingham-based…