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The streets of Birmingham are piling up with rubbish and fly-tipped waste. Mattresses, fridge-freezers, cardboard boxes, old sofas and countless rubbish bags are being dumped. In Alum Rock, mounds of fly-tipped waste has been dumped on roads in and around Cherrywood Road. After...

Detectives are investigating after a teenager was shot as he sat in a car on a city street. The victim was in the passenger seat of a silver Ford Mondeo on Pretoria Road, Bordesley Green when he was fired at on the evening of...

University of Birmingham experts joined medical professionals in India to set up an innovative research centre that will help to improve care for surgical patients. Among the first studies to be launched would be a surgical trial to look at...

With a few weeks to the onset of Ramadan, people start looking for inspiration for their Iftars and want meal ideas their families can enjoy and bond over. Ramadan is observed across the globe and many flavours can be...

BRUMMIES can enjoy a feast of entertainment as Foodies Festival returns to one of Birmingham’s favourite visitor attractions. More than 30,000 food-lovers are set to flock to picturesque Cannon Hill Park for the UK’s ‘biggest celebration of food, drink and...

Throughout April and May, Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice will be bringing six ‘pop-up’ displays of wrought iron forget-me-not flowers to locations throughout the city during its 40thanniversary year. A local hospice’s Forget Me Not display will be blooming across...

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 on the day of the Punjabi festival ‘Vaisakhi’.  The troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians,...

The Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, has today called on the Government to apologise on the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh, or Amritsar, massacre. The Mayor visited the site of the incident in October last year following a...

Readers are being encouraged to sign up to the annual Forget-Me-Not-Walk which takes place at Beale Wildlife Park next month. The charity walk, organised by Sue Ryder, the charity, and sponsored by Balfour Beatty, the construction giant, aims to...

This year’s popular annual Thyagaraja Festival will take place in Solihull later this month. The Festival, led by Shruthi UK, a Solihull-based South Asian arts & culture organisation, will bring to life the songs, rhythms and teachings of Thyagaraja, one...

The University of Wolverhampton (UOW) hosted a special event to celebrate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji at the Chancellor’s Hall on 28th March, 2019. The event was organised by the centre for Sikh and Panjabi...

A charity founder has been given a Pride of Birmingham award for her voluntary work to tackle the taboo surrounding female health issues in marginalised communities. Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh presented Neelam Heera, Business Development Executive in the personal...