Get ready for a city-wide takeover of classical music this August. ‘CBSO in the City’ returns for its third year, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s musicians performing for free to thousand...
I’m going to get absolutely eaten apart in the comments for this one, but Birmingham has its very own castle! Forget about Warwick, Kenilworth, and Taworth castles, and I wasn’t even going to mention Dudl...
The greatest solar eclipse the UK has seen since 1999 is coming this August. While not a total solar eclipse, people will see around 90% of the Sun covered by the Moon across the British Isles—and to top...
It looks like this warm weather is going nowhere. So it’s time to try to cool off by jumping into your nearest outdoor swimming spot. In Birmingham, that’s easier said than done, so you might want to hop...
Just days after becoming Prime Minister, Greater Manchester's former mayor, Andy Burnham, has announced that single bus fares will be capped at £2 in England. Following the success of the £2 bus fare cap...
During the Victorian era, Birmingham was the epicentre of the world’s pen trade (it’s important to note that pens in those days were what we’d call nibs today). In the Jewellery Quarter, there were about...
The worst thing about Birmingham is that it has no beach. Sure, there are some incredible coastal towns and sandy shores not that far away, but they’re not exactly within walking distance or a hop on the...
This might be the closest you ever come to stepping inside a bank’s vaults without robbing one. Step inside the Birmingham Municipal Bank’s former safe deposit facility (containing more than 4,000 safe de...
Ozzy Osbourne sadly passed away at the age of 76 on July 22, 2025. One year on, Birmingham will officially celebrate the first ‘Ozzy Day’ with a city-wide, free programme of live music, public art, specia...
You’d think that everyone would be staying in England for their holidays, seeing as it's not only cheaper, but has better weather than heading abroad these days. But Birmingham Airport is still expecting...