Go-ahead for city centre living
£30 million residential development plans approved.
Robbie rides for blood bank
Touchwood book to aid charity.
Milestone for Birmingham engineering company
Anniversary marked by expansion.
Birmingham man aims to break world record at Great Birmingham Run
Three-piece ensemble to set new mark.
Screengrab: American twinset
Richard Lutz returns to the tube and checks out this week’s top movies on the box.
Full Beam ahead
Film festival set to drive into Kidderminster.
Up in the air
Daring Katy went to new heights skydiving for Canine Partners.
Hawthorns fail to sting Hornets
Terry Wills on Albion’s start to the season.
Tubular bulge
Martin Longley reports, as Frisco’s Tubes bring stack-heels and leather helmets back to Bilston.
Preston leads the way
Alan Clawley reports on a Brutalist success story.
New flagship store for Grand Central
Local designer to open in prestige development.
Stuck in a jam
Dave Woodhall on Villa and the predictable.
Anyone but the other three
Under Corbyn the haves will have a little less and the have nots will have a little hope, writes Steve Beauchampé.
Claret whine
Andy Munro is more impressed with Blues than with opponents Burnley.
The great gig in the sky
Steve Beauchampé watches a group of frisky old jazz stagers rump their lump at Birmingham’s hottest drinking stump.
Destruction as entertainment
Martin Longley wrestles through the crowd at the latest home turf gig by The Destroyers.
Police support this weekend’s Birmingham Mela
Enjoy yourselves and stay safe – message.
The 42nd Street Experience
Terry Wills watches a host of future musical stars.
Local Conversation creates change in Lozells
Residents are having their say on how they want to improve their neighbourhood.
Fans lead calls for Villa to pay Living Wage
“Stand up for the community” call over staff payment.
July record for Birmingham Airport
Million passenger barrier broken.
Crazy about coffins
Art exhibition for Coffin Works.
Birmingham Comedy Festival announces 2015 line-up
Includes international names, breaking talent awards and special events.
Stylistic Mergia
An important figure in 1970s Ethiopian music sounded hyper-current in Coventry, proclaims Martin Longley.
Stars of the future
New Alexandra Theatre Stage Experience presents 42nd Street.
Joseph’s amazing
Stourbridge date for the ‘Welsh Springsteen’.
Men in uniform
Midland Air Ambulance paramedics to run half-marathon.
Cadbury World creates chocolate city
25th anniversary marked by creation of iconic landscape.
Birmingham singers head south of the border
CBSO Chorus swaps Birmingham for Mexico.
Lightnin’ Willie
The Old Crow Medicine Show founder goes solo, and Martin Longley catches him pickin’ banjo in Kings Heath.