Police offer stepping stone to brighter future
Personal skills course on offer.
Birmingham voted Best UK Destination for second consecutive year
Accolade follows record visitor numbers for Birmingham in 2013.
West Midlands manufacturers urged to tap into energy funding
£4.5 million fund available to support offshore wind growth.
Birmingham cartoon exhibition to open
Display of sitcom characters to coincide with comedy festival.
Runner-up to Bono
Dave Woodhall discusses middle-aged anxiety with Ireland’s biggest-selling comedian.
Money lessons on the curriculum
Birmingham to become a Centre of Excellence in financial education.
Solihull shortlisted for top independent schools award
Community work brings recognition.
Rugby World Cup countdown begins
Trophy visits Birmingham this week.
Full programme as Conservatives return to Birmingham
Over 300 city centre fringe events planned for Tory conference.
Ask Howard: He answers the big questions of the day
Sir Howard Elston (DOA) noted journalist and all around mediocrity fields your queries.
Talking the blues
An old face returns to the city’s music scene this evening.
Birmingham resident raising awareness of deadly disease
Father’s death led to campaign.
Screengrab: Friday Night Magic
Richard Lutz guides you through Movieland on the box for this week.
From rubbish to magical dance: coming to Warwick Arts Centre
A magical dance troupe, made entirely from a heap of rubbish, comes to Warwick Arts Centre next month.
New head for Wildlife Trust
Environmental group appoint new Chief Executive.
New passenger facility opens at Birmingham Airport
Improvements come as airport is busier than ever.
Austerity protest ahead of Tory conference
Festival to highlight problems of low pay.
Emergency Ward B6
Dave Woodhall on Villa’s illness-affected defeat to Arsenal.
Birmingham hosts global meetings agency’s biggest-ever European conference
City highlights business tourism offer to international associates from HelmsBriscoe.
Bitter together
Despite Thursday’s Scottish referendum result, the longer term direction of travel is towards independence argues Steve Beauchampé.
Jazzing along
More international jazz this Friday.
Canaries wings clipped
Andy Munro on Blues’ draw at Carrow Road.
Seering Times North of the Border
Scotland takes stock of the vote against Independence. And John Knox, a former BBC political correspondent, forwards this letter from Edinburgh.
What should be Westminster’s vow to Birmingham?
Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne asks his constituents and fellow citizens.
First deal for Finance Birmingham’s £56 million Mezzanine Fund
More than thirty jobs created as Finance Birmingham and Blue Sky support Nationwide Property Assistance.
Who’s looking over your shoulder?
Police warning follows spate of bar thefts.
Manufacturing hub plan – views sought
City council seeking opinion on redevelopment.
Top university guide hails Coventry
University is best for student experience.
Hallowed Turf at the Drum
First World War play comes to Aston arts centre.
Moseley RFC sign Solihull pupil-teacher duo
Teacher and former pupil kick off careers.