#BigupBirmingham gains pace

The city’s #BigupBirmingham campaign continues to grow with new billboard posters appearing across the city yesterday (Friday 24th August).

Arts Council funds Flip

FLIP Festival and Light House Media Centre have been successfully awarded Grants for the Arts funding

A Hoot for the Owls

Andy Munro on Blues’ Wednesday, bloody Wednesday

More Birmingham Library memoirs: The economic case

Alan Clawley with a history lesson on Birmingham town planning and John Madin’s ’70s Birmingham Library

University of Birmingham welcomes Chinese Embassy visitors

The University of Birmingham hosts Counsellor Shen Yang and three other representatives from the Education section at the Chinese Embassy, this week.

Forgotten great lives, number 367

Laurence Inman continues his quest for a healthy body and, it seems, has found the one he would have liked: Percy Cerutty’s

It’s Never Too Early

Started your Christmas shopping yet?

Much Wants More

Terry Wills explains why he was the only unhappy Albion supporter on Saturday.

Help for stuck students

Help is available for students who don’t know what to do next after receiving their GCSE results.

Season of comedy at mac Birmingham

This autumn, mac birmingham has a rib-tickling line-up of comedians, guaranteed to put a smile on the grumpiest of faces; including Jo Caulfield, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Simon Munnery, and Mark Thomas.

New charter to deliver better regulation for businesses

Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership is pioneering a new relationship between business and local regulators to help encourage economic growth.

Ghoulish goings-on at the Garrick

Lichfield Players open their new season shortly with Tiptoe Through The Tombstones, a spoof thriller by Norman Robbins.

The Glee Club Stand-up Comedy Course

Award-winning comedian James Cook is leading a two day stand-up comedy course this September at the Midlands’ premier comedy club.

Money for Light House

Wolverhampton Centre for the National Trust makes important donation to Light House’s fund-raising efforts

Birmingham Jazz new season puts the ‘Club’ back into Jazz

The newly independent Birmingham Jazz is putting its membership at the centre of its activities with its new autumn season.

Flash: A Queen tribute

Flash, formerly Queen on Fire, will be returning to The Public in West Bromwich on Saturday 15 September, after a sell out show in 2011.

Watch The Helicopter Quartet

Watch The Helicopter Quartet from Birmingham Opera’s sold out production of Stockhausen’s extraordinary opera Mittwoch live, exclusively on The Space

Twitter a hit for uni applicants coming to Coventry

Students seeking a place at Coventry University since A-level results day have been more active than ever on Twitter according to the institution’s social media statistics.

Charity launches new safety guide for motorists

A Birmingham-based motoring safety charity has published a new handbook that aims to increase driver confidence, comfort and courtesy.

Comedy Festival returns with another stellar line-up

Birmingham Comedy Festival returns this October with yet another great line-up of top comedy talent. Acts include John Bishop, Hairy Bikers, Seann Walsh,
The Midnight Beast, Charlie Murphy and punk poet John Cooper Clarke