The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A teenage boy tragically lost his life after falling from a car park near Selfridges in Birmingham city centre on Monday afternoon. The 15-year-old boy died after falling from the multi-storey Moor Street car park shortly after midday.
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is once again looking to recruit more than 200 people to support its stalls when it returns to the city centre on 3 November. Organisers of the event are looking to recruit more than 200 staff and also audition musicians for this year’s festive market.
Police are appealing for more victims to come forward after a rapist posing as a taxi driver was arrested in Birmingham. The sexual predator prowled around for victims in Birmingham city centre, Digbeth and Perry Barr.
Around a thousand cyclists came out to join ‘Drum and Bass on the Bike’ as the mass gathering made a return to Birmingham. Hundreds of excited cyclists and drum and bass music enthusiasts turned up outside the Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square to see DJ Dom Whiting launch the event for the second time…
The Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, has launched £15bn worth of housing, regeneration, commercial and infrastructure development opportunities to international investors at the MIPIM property conference in Cannes, South of France. MIPIM is the world’s leading real estate event, bringing together over 20,000 property professionals from around the world, including over 4,000 investors,…
Thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate the return of Birmingham Pride this weekend, after the event was twice postponed due to the COVID pandemic. Following a hiatus of 28 long months since its last live event, the LGBTQIA+ festival launched with a spectacular parade starting in Victoria Square before making its way to the…
It’s been Tom Cruise mania in Birmingham this weekend as the Hollywood star continued on his mission (pun intended) to film his latest blockbuster at Grand Central and New Street Station in the city. After being photographed outside Asha’s restaurant on Saturday, the tinseltown megastar spent much of yesterday filming scenes in and around the…
Hollywood star Tom Cruise has once again been spotted in Birmingham, this time at one of the city’s premier Indian restaurants amidst reports of ongoing filming for the next Mission Impossible film. A photograph on social media appears to show actor Tom Cruise posing outside Asha’s Birmingham, a restaurant in Newhall Street which serves contemporary…
The team at Birmingham coffee house Damascena have raised £8,000 for the local charity Acorns Children’s Hospice as part of anniversary celebrations to mark the cafe’s 7th birthday. Damascena – an independent coffee shop that specialises in freshly made Middle eastern cuisine – pledged to donate 10% of total sales to the charity during its 7th…
Marks & Spencer is set to take over and transform the closed and boarded up Debenhams store in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. Currently based in High Street, the company has secured a deal to take the large unit previously housing Bullring tenant Debenhams, which went into administration in April 2020 and closed down the store earlier…