If there’s one word I’d use to describe New Street Station, it’s ‘chaos’. Handling over 170,000 passengers daily, this central hub of the British railway system is many people’s first port of call if they’re trying to g...
For the past 20 years, the Moseley Folk and Arts Festival has taken over Birmingham’s not-so-secret hideaway, Moseley Park, pulling in such big-name acts as Father John Misty, The Waterboys, Wilco, Richard Thompson, The...
Stonehenge. It may be thousands of years old, but, as anyone who’s will attest, there’s much to see beyond these epic ancient rocks. Just flat, arid ground. In many ways, Birmingham’s popular hiking spot, Clent Hills,...
What makes for a happy place to live? Well, according to RightMove, it’s factors like community, safety, essential services, green spaces, walkability and vibrant high streets that put a smile on our faces—with Skipton...
Be it boredom or fear, when the WWII air raids hit Birmingham, Anthony E. Pratt and his wife, Elva, kept themselves busy by inventing a board game. They drew on what they knew. Agatha Christie novels, Victorian parlour...
Nothing can quite prepare you for a Boxing Day walk. After a long day trapped inside, eating everything in sight, before slumping in , the great outdoors can be quite a shock to the system—and no, we’re not just talking...
Today (Wednesday, December 3) is Ozzy Osbourne’s birthday. To mark the occasion, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has unveiled a special tribute wall in the Working Class Hero exhibition on what would’ve been the roc...
Millionaires, billionaires, and, likely soon, trillionaries are everywhere in the Midlands. Meanwhile, my pay packet has barely changed in years… Money, it’s the great divide between many of us, and this chasm is only g...
You’d be hard pushed not to feel emotional with a visit to The National Memorial Arboretum. Just 30 minutes from Birmingham, there are over 400 memorials honouring those who have served and sacrificed. But, during the f...
Have you ever seen an outpouring of grief and celebration in Birmingham like the one for Ozzy Osbourne? If you need a further sign of what he meant to this city, he will be posthumously presented with the Lord Mayor’s A...