Street Life
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market searching for staff and musicians for 2022
Staff Reporter
October 3, 2022 | 11:30 am
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…
Birmingham community turn bus stops into stained-glass art galleries across Handsworth
Staff Reporter
May 20, 2022 | 10:58 am
Seven new bus stops lining Birmingham’s busy Soho Road have been converted into art galleries to celebrate the area’s diverse communities and history. China Plate Theatre artist Nilupa Yasmin has…
Hundreds of people join Dom Whiting for ‘Drum and Bass on the Bike’ return to Birmingham
Staff Reporter
April 21, 2022 | 01:01 pm
Around a thousand cyclists came out to join 'Drum and Bass on the Bike' as the mass gathering made a return to Birmingham. Hundreds of excited cyclists and drum and…
Safer Travel launch new plan to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour on public transport
Staff Reporter
March 18, 2022 | 07:01 pm
Plans to increase the numbers of specialist uniformed officers patrolling the West Midlands' bus, train and tram networks has been launched in the region. Unveiled today (18 March), the four-year Safer…
Rough sleepers urged to seek shelter during Storm Eunice
Staff Reporter
February 18, 2022 | 02:30 pm
Birmingham City Council has provided guidance on how to assist rough sleepers at risk of being caught up in the harsh weather conditions during Storm Eunice. Due to Storm Eunice,…
Epic Peaky Blinders mural unveiled in Digbeth as broadcast date for final series revealed
Rangzeb Hussain
February 15, 2022 | 03:00 pm
The broadcast date for the final series of landmark Birmingham-based drama series Peaky Blinders was announced during the unveiling of an epic new mural in Digbeth today. Show creator Steven Knight…
Video of Brummie revellers performing ‘Killing Me Softly’ in city centre street goes viral
Staff Reporter
January 30, 2022 | 05:54 pm
A video of random Brummies breaking into song to perform 'Killing Me Softly' in the city centre streets is going viral after being shared across social media. Posted to Twitter last night (29…
Muslim bachelor launches witty billboard campaign in Birmingham to find a wife
Rangzeb Hussain
January 3, 2022 | 08:57 pm
Billboards have appeared across parts of Birmingham featuring a Muslim bachelor in search of a wife. 29-year-old Muhammad Malik has forked out hundreds of pounds on a witty and unconventional public campaign…
Fokawolf street art tribute to ‘Mad Malik’ in Digbeth suffers further vandalism
Rangzeb Hussain
December 25, 2021 | 11:57 pm
After last night's initial damage to Foka Wolf's street art tribute to Malik of Small Heath the rest of the celebratory giant poster has been torn down and destroyed by…
Digbeth street art tribute to Small Heath legend ‘Mad Malik’ vandalised and destroyed
Rangzeb Hussain
December 24, 2021 | 10:28 am
The recent street art tribute to Small Heath icon Malik by secretive artist Foka Wolf in Birmingham has been destroyed by an unidentified vandal on Christmas Eve. The much-loved pasteup…