The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
West Midlands Ambulance Service are recruiting new 111 callers to help bolster the response to the coronavirus outbreak. The Trust, which runs the call centre, confirmed there will be extra investment to recruit more call handlers to deal with the increase in demand.
It’s Election Day, the day where Britain goes to the polls to make its choice. These are turbulent, decade-defining times, and everyone should exercise their right to vote — including celebrities. Celebrities are people too, and like the rest of the country, the actors, musicians and rising talent of the UK have been mulling over who…
Coming back to my hometown of Birmingham this week has made realise that this upcoming election, often valorised as an “once in a generation” vote, is even more unpredictable and volatile in the West Midlands than anywhere else in the UK. Statistically speaking, our region can be likened to a volcanic blackhole. The Brexit battle…
Birmingham has joined with other major cities across the UK in climate crisis demonstrations, as thousands joined school kids and students demanding for action on climate change. Around 3,000 people in Birmingham join in one of the largest youth-led demonstrations in history, where millions of people from Sydney to Mumbai took to the streets around…
A music superstar has waded into the ‘No Outsiders‘ row over protests being held outside schools across Birmingham. Olly Alexander, frontman for British synth-pop band Years and Years, delivered an impassioned speech in favour of LGBT+ education in schools across the UK during the band’s performance at Birmingham Pride on Saturday night.
Birmingham Pride this year is all about diversity – especially for representing people of colour and other ethnic minorities in Birmingham. The event has made history with Muslim groups leading the Birmingham Pride parade for the first time in the event’s 23 years history. Alongside ‘No Outsiders’ founder and school teacher Andrew Moffat stood Khakan Qureshi…
It’s a celebration of love, tolerance, and diversity at Birmingham Pride 2019. Now in its 23rd year, it is the UK’s biggest two-day LGBT event, with the most iconic moments coming from the parade event. With almost 18,000 people turning up, it’s hard to believe that Birmingham Pride first started in 1997 on a single stage…
With organisers promising the largest ever main stage, Birmingham Pride is set to welcome an incredible array of talent to the Main Stage next weekend! Following on from the carnival parade, that kicks off at noon on Saturday 25th May, acts such as the Human League and Years & Years are set to take the the…
Nearly seven in 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people have been sexually harassed at work, according to research for the Trades Union Congress revealing a “hidden epidemic”. The survey, published on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Friday (May 17), found that more than two in five LGBT people (42%)…
Birmingham LGBT will unveil its new flag this Friday (17 May) at an event to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia. The charity will be joining other national organisations and Pride events up and down the country in using the new community-wide inclusive Pride flag, which incorporates colours representing trans communities and queer…