Wolverhampton footballer Jai Verma approached by major premiership clubs
Wolverhampton-born Jai Verma has agreed a two-and-a-half year contract with top-flight Emirates League club last season for £300,000.
The British footballer, who last year was signed to Al Shabab FC has been going from strength to strength, having scored 12...
The InkaNIMA Collection by Amrit Singh Comes to Birmingham
InkaNIMA is a collection of intricate ink art hand drawn by Amrit Singh, which are a salute to nature’s beauty. As humans, we often forget that we are not in control of nature, but part of the ecosystem. Intricate...
Man Dies After Getting Stabbed on Handsworth Bus
A man has died after being stabbed to death on a bus in Handsworth on the 23rd January. The attack took place on Rookery Road at 10.43pm on the Number No 11A bus as it traveled through Handsworth.
The victim, a...
Nina Wadia To Host BBC Radio 4 Appeal Against Anti-Trafficking For The British Asian...
Award-winning actress and British Asian Trust ambassador, Nina Wadia will present a BBC Radio 4 appeal on Sunday 5th February, to increase awareness about human trafficking and raise donations to help fight against it, as part of The Trust’s...
West Midlands professional named national ‘Mentor of the Year’
A Birmingham City University employee has been announced as the UK’s ‘Mentor of the Year’ at a special event held yesterday in Doncaster.
Nasrin Akhtar, who works as an Ambitious Futures Graduate Trainee in Leadership and Management at Birmingham City...
Wheelchair Users Win Priority Seats Supreme Court Case
Wheelchair users have won a Supreme Court case which will grant them priority spaces on buses over pushchairs. The case was first brought to the Courts by Doug Paulley, a disabled man from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, when he boarded...
Birmingham Hospital To be Sold for £1.2m
A former Birmingham hospital is set to be repurposed after going on sale for up to £1.2m. The Old skin hospital could see itself transformed into a pub, restaurant or other business and after being acquired by new hands.
First...
Men Paying £101 more for Car Insurance
According to a comparison site’s research, male motorists pay £101 more a year for their car insurance than women.
Confused.com found that the average annual premium for men was £812 for comprehensive car insurance in the last quarter of 2016,...
Closeted Karan Refuses to Come Out
Karan Johar, arguably the most successful Bollywood director of all time, has India in uproar yet again- but this time over his new autobiography.
Karan, who has directed such classics as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to contemporary trailblazers Ae Dil...
Library of Birmingham & British Library win Heritage Lottery Fund to celebrate South Asian...
Today (23 January 2017), the Library of Birmingham and the British Library have received £91,700 of National Lottery funding to present Documenting Histories, a partnership project celebrating the important role South Asian culture has played in forming Birmingham’s history...
