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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 it eve...
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 City Council...
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, and W...
Trentham Monkey Forest has announced that four adorable baby Barbary macaques have been born high up in the treetops as they would be in the wild – and we can’t cope with how cute they are. The park is...
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, Prince o...
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 surpr...
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 in over 40...
Joe Lycett is an icon. And from his soft-toyed suit worn on Late Night Lycett to the Queen Elizabeth I-inspired gown for the BAFTAs, the Birmingham comedian knows how to dress like one, too. Now, Birmingham Muse...
The cost of being a devoted football fan extends far beyond the match tickets and the merch. Once you arrive at the stadium, it’d be rude not to raise a toast to your team with a nice, cold pint, right? But h...
The last time Birmingham City played FC Barcelona was in the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final, when the European giants thrashed the Blues 4-1 at the Camp Nou. That year, Barça won their second consecutive Spanish...
