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I’ll cheers to that. Becoming the first UK supermarket to bless us with the booze industry’s brand new ‘pink Prosecco’, Aldi is officially launching a Prosecco Rosé – and it sounds like our...
The move to the highest tier of restrictions is likely to be next week. Councillor Ian Ward has confirmed today that Birmingham and the West Midlands are set to move into the highest tier of Covid-19 restrictions. This...
In what would perhaps be the biggest comeback of the flipping century, Woolworths is allegedly returning to the British high street. Famous for selling pick ‘n’ mix and top 40 singles, a tweet posted this mo...
Lots of local businesses are getting involved to feed children over the break. Councillor Ian Ward has today announced that Birmingham City council will provide food vouchers for around 61,000 children on free school me...
It’s official, we are waving goodbye to our precious coral reefs and it’s happening faster than any of us had realised. This week, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies released a worrying report that conf...
The Holiday To Help Out scheme is here to remind us that the world really is our oyster. The tourism industry is just one of many that have suffered at the hands of Covid-19. And due to rising infections rates, quaranti...
I must be the happiest person alive. If anyone can soothe the pain after a long, long day of having an existential crisis (or less dramatically, just working from home), it’s Sir David Attenborough. And it turns o...
The Welsh travel ban begins tonight. Bad news if you were planning a Welsh getaway anytime soon: as of 6pm tonight (Friday, October 16), anyone travelling from parts of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with high...
Art finds a way. “Living in a bubble” used to be an expression that described a person’s tendency to shut themselves out from the greater world. Last Monday, psych-rock band, The Flaming Lips, gave a whole new meaning t...
A new tiered lockdown system is set to be announced today. Birmingham has successfully dodged a ‘Tier 3’ lockdown, it has officially been confirmed – with residents of Birmingham set to be placed on Ti...