The NEC is set to launch a programme of family attractions this summer, combining major ticketed experiences with a new free outdoor space designed to give families a full day out in one place. Having...
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans, Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-strip paintings, and Richard Hamilton’s advertising collages. Pop art can be hard to define, but when you see it, you know what you’re looking...
It is now against the law for anyone but a learner driver to book and manage their own driving test. This includes the use of unofficial test booking and cancellation finder services for making bookings f...
Would you race down a 50% gradient hill just to claim a free wheel of cheese? Well, these mad bastards do it every year in Gloucestershire, and the 200-year-old tradition is probably more popular now than...
Birmingham has spoken. The results are in. Following the 2026 local elections, all 101 council seats are now spoken for (across 37 single-member and 32 two-member wards), and this is now how Birmingham Ci...
The whole county of the West Midlands headed out to the polls in local elections yesterday (Thursday, May 7)—with hundreds of thousands voting for full councils in Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell, Solihull,...
In 2024, 560 suicides were registered in the West Midlands. 415 of these (74%) were men. As the leading cause of death for men under 35, men’s suicide prevention is of the utmost importance, as William, Pr...
You wouldn’t know it from the weather right now (I’m literally wearing two jumpers as I type because I refuse to stick the heating back on), but we’re in the middle of spring. And even bigger surprise mig...
There is now only a month to go until England head to the World Cup 2026 (June 11 to July 19). The competition will take place in Canada, Mexico and the USA, and sees 48 qualified teams fight for the ulti...
They’ve done it! Having overturned a one-goal deficit against their Midlands rivals to beat Nottingham Forest 4-1 on aggregate in the semi-final second leg, Aston Villa are in their first European final i...