General Election 2017 – Fox hunting
Steve Beauchampé goes Fox hunting, on a Watson Watch, but doesn’t think June will be the end of May.
Haircut and other stories
Richard Lutz wrestles with the wreckage of another week.
Budding photographers invited to capture Kings Heath Summer
Entrants wanted for seasonal photography competition.
Honest folk
Fifteen horns, four cellos, five percussionists, five electric guitarists and twenty-odd more besides. That’s the Conservatoire Folk Ensemble.
Spain’s safe home on the Severn
Michael East heads west to be amazed by a secret cache of Iberian masterpieces .
Drop dead letter to Sir Howard Elston
A warning from our social care correspondent.
Screengrab: Mitch, weed and the hard desert
Richard Lutz picks the best movie on TV this week
Top tenor for Sutton
International singer added to Sutton Park concert bill.
Hawthorns Halt
Terry Wills talks about Albion and the end of a season.
Vice Versa at Stratford: “madcap but not sharp enough…”
Richard Lutz takes his pew for a new comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The Elston Report: Trump trip triggers trouble
Sir Howard Elston, our Mid East correspondent, outlines what will happen when Doughball Trump lands in Saudi Arabia for his first summit.
Trying not to look back in anger
Dave Woodhall looks back with little fondness at Villa in 2016-17.
Where history sleeps
Richard Lutz gets lost in Shakespeare country.
Skin deep and forever young (ish)
Cosmetics, creams and powders. Sheilagh Matheson experiments to discover what works and what doesn’t.
May plays her Trump card
Does Theresa May have the temperament and inter-personal skills to lead successful Brexit negotiations, asks Steve Beauchampé?
Squeeky brum time
Andy Munro celebrates Blues avoiding relegation.
Fightin’ words
Will Mapplebeck is on the election trail to boredom.
The past is another country but some things never change
Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion
The magnificent seven
Villa’s final away game of the season saw a one-nil defeat at Blackburn. Dave Woodhall reports.
Top half beckons
Terry Wills talks about Albion’s prospects for the rest of the season.
Ort Gallery celebrate new membership scheme with exhibition
Balsall Heath art programme aims to help local community.
The Mayoral Race: Hustings Heaven
Richard Lutz joins the throng to listen to the six candidates for West Midlands mayor.
Letting Jeremy be Jeremy might be a bad idea
Will Mapplebeck wonders aloud about Jezza and his inability to find the killer comment.
Women mean business
New networking group to support Birmingham businesswomen.
Ask Howard: He answers the big questions
More hard-hitting answers from the Man in the Know.
Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot
Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.
Metallique polished
Cityscape artist collection for city gallery.
Entries wanted for hospice golf day
Former West Brom star supports Birmingham St Mary’s corporate fundraiser.
One of city’s oldest community centres to get facelift
£25,000 boost for historic venue.
Review: All or Nothing
Stephen Pennell enjoys a night of reminiscing on and off stage.