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The Birmingham Lord Mayor made an appearance at a Family Fun Day in Bordesley Green yesterday, organised by community organisation Seek for Change. Cllr Yvonne Mosquito met local parents and children at the free local event which was held at The Green in Priorygate Way.
A Birmingham shisha bar that allegedly sold alcohol and laughing gas to hundreds of children has been permanently closed. Cloud Nine Dessert and Shisha Lounge in Birmingham’s Southside had already been subject to a 90-day closure order after police incidents in April last year, but following allegations of alcohol being sold to children as young as nine, the council…
Plastic, the ocean, Emmeline Pankhurst, Donald Trump, Brexit, Korea, Grenfell Tower, unicorns, slime and computer game Fortnite are just some of the people and subjects that influence British children’s creativity and use of language, says a report published today by Oxford University Press (OUP). Following OUP’s analysis of the 134,790 short stories submitted to the 2018 BBC…
In 1968, American photographers Janet Mendelsohn and Richard P. Rogers documented the suburbs of Birmingham, fraught with poverty and poor housing conditions. Their photographs are currently being exhibited as part of the Flatpack Film Festival.