10 photos of cast rehearsing with puppets for Avenue Q

Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town are returning to Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre next year as comedy musical Avenue Q returns to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash hit tours in 2014, 2015 and 2016 – packed with mischief, bad behaviour and risqué…

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Birmingham Stand Up To Racism counter protest against FLA march and demonstration in March 2018

20 photos of Brummies standing against racism and hate as FLA descend on city

As a few thousand mostly white men who claim to be “the football family against extremism” descended on Birmingham over the weekend to demonstrate their anti-extremist credentials, merging with several other self-proclaimed “non-racist” groups, regular Brummies who also happen to be football fans (but not so much into racism) decided to stand together to remind everyone that…

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Miss Birmingham 2017/18 Niamh Conway

10 things you didn’t know about Miss Birmingham Niamh Conway

Niamh Conway has been Miss Birmingham for a whole year. This time last March, the 22-year-old was an aspirational but shy university graduate who struggled with major confidence issues, before surprising herself and being crowned Miss Birmingham 2017/18. Fast forward a few weeks shy of 365 days and the former public relations worker from Sutton Coldfield has not…

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Birmingham by Lensi Photography

15 photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Birmingham

Royal couple Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were in Birmingham on Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, visiting the Millennium Point in Eastside and community projects in Nechells. The engaged couple were at the venue to encourage female students to pursue careers in subjects like science and maths, and inspire young women pursuing STEM careers. During the…

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These Birmingham female creatives are supporting a possible relocation of Channel 4 to Birmingham

6 female creatives from Birmingham on why Channel 4 would be good for the city

There’s been much talk of broadcast giant Channel 4 relocating to Birmingham from its current home in London, and much of it from the Brum’s creative community. With all the discourse about the media giant potentially moving to the Midlands city (who wouldn’t want to? We are lovely here!) and with it being International Women’s Month, we decided to…

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