The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Black Lives Matter and related anti-racism protests are being held across Birmingham in response to the police murder of George Floyd in the US, and to challenge institutional racism across the world. Several protests have been held across the UK city including a march through Soho Road in Handsworth on Monday (June 1), followed by…
Birmingham city centre was packed with thousands of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protestors on Thursday afternoon to show solidarity for George Floyd, who died as a result of US police brutality on May 25 in Minnesota. The shocking death of the black victim, who kept pleading ‘I can’t breathe’ as a white officer pressed his knee…
Around £100,000 has been lost to cruel online dating con-artists in the last three months by single people searching for love in the West Midlands. Police are warning people to be on guard when searching online for love as new figures reveal a huge loss of money by victims of ‘romance fraud’.