If you were a child when the ‘Blue Peter’ badge was introduced, you could well be a grandparent, or even a great-grandparent, today. Generations have now coveted these iconic blue-and-white pin badges—either awarded for...
From Sabrina Carpenter to , many of the world’s greatest artists have already stopped by Birmingham this year. But there’s plenty more exciting gigs still to come in the Second City. Home to many of the UK’s biggest and...
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery continues its phased reopening this week. Here’s the chance to see the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever discovered. You are invited to visit the Staffo...
In the biggest shake-up to voter rights in the UK since 1969, we will see 16 and 17-year-olds able to vote in the next general election. This will bring UK-wide elections in line with Scotland and Wales and give young p...
There’s something dreamlike about Portmeirion. Heavily inspired by the Italian Riviera, it’s a mix of pastel-coloured houses, ornamental gardens and Italianate architecture, tucked into the natural landscape of the Nort...
You should have heard the sad news by now that at the end of the year. The beating heart of Birmingham’s street food scene for the past five years, it’s going to leave a gaping hole when it’s gone. But maybe Digbeth Di...
‘Swimming with the fishes’ has taken on a new meaning at Lavender Hall Fishery. The 12-acre complex—where you can fish for 30lb carp on the outskirts of Coventry—has completely drained one of its lakes to remove all fis...
One of the worst things about Birmingham is that it has no beaches. Sure, there are some incredible and not that far away, but they’re not exactly within walking distance or a hop on the bus away. But what if I told y...
It’s incredible to think that The Smurfs are over 60 years old. What’s even more incredible is that these tiny, blue people as still deeply ingrained in the pop culture—with another reboot film, ‘Smurfs’, on the way thi...
Birmingham Airport has become the first airport to end the long-standing 100ml liquids rule. Introduced in 2006, after a foiled attempt to smuggle liquid explosives on transatlantic flights, it meant that only liquids,...