Remember when £5 pints were the norm? Those were the days, and they don’t even feel that long ago. In these super-inflationary times, the cost of living (and drinking) is going up every day, and the pubs...
Birmingham is a city revving with petrol-heads, moto-enthusiasts, and car-nuts. Nothing quite beats hopping behind the wheel and going for a long drive. Unless you’re a big fan of interchanges, you will ha...
Edgbaston Cricket Ground is as old as Greenwich Mean Time, the machine gun, and the Oxford English Dictionary. Established in 1884, it needs a little love now and again, with the stadium deep into its ‘ma...
From the futuristic Selfridges building to ‘the world’s first octagonal skyscraper’, Birmingham’s skyline is already pretty iconic. But no tower block truly represents the Brummie spirit, until now. Develo...
While the concept of two towns, one low, one high, sharing a name and separated only by a river, sounds like the set-up for a fable about how we’re all equal despite our differences, it’s actually a very...
Easter bank holiday weekend (April 3 to 6) is just around the corner, and there’s plenty to get up to aside from cracking into chocolatey Easter eggs. From Easter vigils to adventure playgrounds, day tri...
Honestly, the cost of a bag of Mini Eggs is extortionate these days, but I will not let a silly thing like money stop me from buying them. The taste, the smell, the look, they’re all so perfectly formed....
The Electric Cinema opened all the way back in 1909 and was the UK’s oldest working cinema until it sadly closed its doors in 2024. Since then, campaigners have been working hard to save it from permanent...
Birmingham is a big, bustling and sprawling city. But you’ll feel like you’ve flown to the calm of Scandinavia with a visit to this Sutton Coldfield bakery. Just eight miles from the city centre, Silver Tr...
Just over a hundred Barbary macaques roam free at Trentham Monkey Forest (about an hour’s drive from Birmingham), while only 8,000 of these endangered animals currently survive in the wild. But in a world...