Our guide to health and fitness in Birmingham brings you everything from beautiful parks to running, cycling and walking routes, yoga and meditation, friendly gyms and peaceful places to go.
Moseley Road Baths, the community-led swimming pool in Balsall Heath, has been teaching Birmingham residents to swim since 1907. Today (Friday, May 22, 2026), the Grade II*-listed Edwardian pool secured a £9,272,95...
If you’ve ever looked perplexed at your council tax charges, wondering if there was any way at all to get a discount, there may well be a way. Following a Council Tax rule change back in 2013, a number of cou...
When Robert De Niro first dined at Nobu Matsuhisa’s Los Angeles sushi restaurant in 1988, who could’ve predicted it would start a friendship that spanned into a worldwide hospitality brand? Now boasting 36 Nobu...
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...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there are very few things that I enjoy more than boasting about my step count and gawping at gorgeous scenery. And so the prospect of a (nearly) 2,700-mile wat...
The odds are that you or someone very close to you has been affected by cancer. In the UK, almost 1 in 2 of us will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in our lifetimes. So the importance of knowing the signs...
Droitwich Spa Lido is one of only a few inland, open-air saltwater swimming pools in the UK. Here, with its Art Deco design, surrounded by lush parkland, and water heated to a Mediterranean 23°c, the 40m pool...
All I’ve ever wanted is to live in a treehouse. Just like Bart from The Simpsons, or Finn & Jake from Adventure Time, or even the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Having fun in the canopy, looking down on everyo...
This Friday (1 May), a full Moon is set to rise across the sky, and this one is special (not just becuase its the start of the Bank Holiday weekend) but because it is a micromoon. The Moon will be visible as the su...
Provence’s world-renowned lavender fields will turn the south of France into a carpet of purple haze this summer. You don’t need to drive that far just to experience something like it, though. An hour from...
