The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A team of valiant volunteers from Small Heath have removed a shocking amount of used heroin needles and other dangerous drugs related waste from the streets around Birmingham City FC and Small Heath Park. This highly dangerous anti-social waste was removed last week after posing a serious public health hazard to children and families, including pets.
Hundreds of Birmingham City football fans marched through their home city this afternoon to stand against racism, in response to scenes of far-right violence in London last month. Organised by former football ‘hooligan’ Marc Gauntlett and fellow Blues supporter Keith Batchboy, the protest walk set off from outside St Andrew’s stadium in Small Heath, made its way through Digbeth and…
A former football hooligan from Birmingham is organising an anti-racist march to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter in honour of his friend who was tragically shot dead by armed police last year. Marc Gauntlett, who was active in The Zulu Warriors hooligan firm which supported Birmingham City Football Club, was devastated to lose his close friend…
Police have charged a father and his partner over the shocking death of a six-year-old boy from Solihull. Officers were called to a house in Cranmore Road at around 3pm on Tuesday (16 June) where little Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was found unresponsive.