You won’t believe me, but these idyllic Italian-style gardens were once home to an amusement park and motor rally races. Going back to the 1800s, Trentham Estate boasted the most beautiful grounds, but by...
It wasn’t James Cameron who turned ‘the unsinkable ship’ into a pop culture phenomenon; the Titanic has captured the public imagination for over a century. After the ship’s maiden voyage ended in tragedy...
Taking over the Second City during the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (May 23 & 24), Birmingham Pride is back bigger, better and badder than ever before with a two-day celebration of all things LGBTQ+. W...
The lengths we will go to for love never cease to amaze. When Colonel Harry Clive set about building his 12-acre, hillside garden in Staffordshire, it wasn’t for any reason other than to provide his wife D...
I don’t know about you, but I spent Easter weekend down the garden centre admiring flowers and picking out vegetable seeds. It’s officially gardening season. Looking for more inspiration, I found a quiete...
Birmingham’s canals are often compared to Venice’s, but the two really aren’t that similar. You won’t find any gondolas in the Second City, or the hundreds of small islands that cover Italy’s Floating Cit...
We all want to live in a house, a very big house in the country, but there are plenty of reasons why most of us don’t. Cost is a huge one. So is a lack of transport. Of decent shops. Or any kind of infras...
Tram services are now running to Millennium Point as of Easter Sunday (April 5), connecting even more of Birmingham to the West Midlands Metro network. This first stage of the Birmingham Eastside Metro ex...
Wherever you go in Birmingham these days, Cillian Murphy is one of two faces you’re bound to see everywhere (the other being Ozzy’s). With the release of each season, ‘Peaky Blinders’ has grown bigger and...
The Digbeth-based restaurant, 670 Grams, has been one of Birmingham’s most distinct establishments since it opened in 2020. But run by the former Young Michelin Chef of the Year, Kray Treadwell, the monoc...