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A new report has found Birmingham to be the UK’s noisiest city.
When Catherine Gale and Claire Dawes signed up for a virtual course to learn about running a bookshop, they had no idea where ...
But there could only be one winner. For 2025, the Independent Bookshop crown went to The Heath Bookshop in Birmingham’s Kings ...
A predatory child sex offender who groomed young girls for sex after giving them drugs and alcohol at parties has been jailed ...
The self-proclaimed dullest man in Britain has launched a series of merchandise depicting Birmingham's ongoing bin strike.
Joe Holyoak reflects on Mahtab Hussain's photographic survey of 160 Birmingham mosques, featured in the Ikon Gallery ...
Birmingham’s thriving literary scene shines as The Heath Bookshop wins the UK's Independent Bookshop of the Year 2025 award.
The winners of The British Book Awards 2025 for Independent Bookshop of the Year, Small Press of the Year and Library of the ...
As Muslims gear up for the second of two big Eid celebrations in 2025, the key question is when the 'festival of the ...
Britain's 'dullest man' believes he has produced his most rubbish calendar yet dedicated to the Birmingham bin strikes.
Talks are set to continue on Wednesday to end a strike by Birmingham bin workers which has seen mountains of uncollected rubbish pile up on pavements and street corners. Negotiations between the city ...