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Ed Sheeran, Anne-Marie, Calvin Harris, Sigrid & KSI to perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2022 in Coventry
Ed Sheeran, Anne-Marie, Calvin Harris, Sigrid & KSI are some of the hottest acts set to perform on Saturday 28 May at Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2022 in Coventry. Coventry’s War Memorial Park will play host to Radio 1’s flagship live music event with over 80,000 Radio 1 fans expected to attend the three day…

100 community groups to stage projects and events for the Birmingham 2022 Festival
Over 100 community groups across Birmingham are to stage their own festival events and projects as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival, thanks to funding from Birmingham City Council. The Creative City programme will see 107 community groups and artists get creative over the six months of the Birmingham 2022 Festival which accompanies the Birmingham…

Major new exhibition showcasing heritage photographs of commonwealth migrants launches in Birmingham
A major new photographic exhibition featuring thousands of images of Birmingham residents will open at the iconic Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square next month. ‘From City Of Empire To City Of Diversity: A Visual Journey,’ has been created from The Dyche Collection, one of the most important photographic collections within Birmingham Archives and acquired…

By order of the Peaky Blinders! Ticket ballot to open today for BBC red carpet fan premiere in Birmingham
More than 300 fans of BBC One’s epic Peaky Blinders are in with a chance of scoring tickets to the premiere of the final series. The red carpet spectacular will be held on Thursday 24 February in the notorious gang’s motherland of Birmingham. Today, Friday 11 February at 6pm a free ticket draw will launch…

Video of Brummie revellers performing ‘Killing Me Softly’ in city centre street goes viral
A video of random Brummies breaking into song to perform ‘Killing Me Softly’ in the city centre streets is going viral after being shared across social media. Posted to Twitter last night (29 January) at 11.08am, the short clip showing revellers and passers-by joining in with an impromptu rendition of the hit song – which was being played…

Muslim bachelor launches witty billboard campaign in Birmingham to find a wife
Billboards have appeared across parts of Birmingham featuring a Muslim bachelor in search of a wife. 29-year-old Muhammad Malik has forked out hundreds of pounds on a witty and unconventional public campaign in his quest to find a spouse.

Fokawolf street art tribute to ‘Mad Malik’ in Digbeth suffers further vandalism
After last night’s initial damage to Foka Wolf’s street art tribute to Malik of Small Heath the rest of the celebratory giant poster has been torn down and destroyed by unknown vandals. The much-loved pasteup of a living legend from the Small Heath area of Birmingham has been totally destroyed by unidentified vandals in Upper…

Digbeth street art tribute to Small Heath legend ‘Mad Malik’ vandalised and destroyed
The recent street art tribute to Small Heath icon Malik by secretive artist Foka Wolf in Birmingham has been destroyed by an unidentified vandal on Christmas Eve. The much-loved pasteup of a living legend from the Small Heath area of Birmingham has been left torn and tattered in Upper Trinity Street, Birmingham.

Small Heath legend Malik is honoured by Brum street artist
Enigmatic Birmingham street artist Foka Wolf has produced a giant poster tribute to a living legend of Small Heath who is recognisable to generations of Brummies. The new artwork, pasted up in Digbeth on Wednesday (1st December), is an affectionate and celebratory tribute to a much loved and charismatic character known as “mad” Malik from…

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai gets married to Asser Malik in Birmingham ceremony
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has married her partner during an Islamic ‘nikah’ ceremony in Birmingham. Yousafzai, 24, ‘tied the knot’ with Asser Malik in a nikah ceremony, where the bride and groom formally agree to be married, with parents and family as witnesses.