The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A leading Birmingham councillor will become a street warden this weekend, patrolling the city’s golden mile to experience a Broad Street party night in full swing. Coun Waseem Zaffar, the cabinet member for Transport and Environment on Birmingham City Council, will put in a shift as a street warden for the Westside Business Improvement District…
Police are investigating after four mosques in Birmingham had their windows smashed overnight. Police were called at 2.32am today (21 March) to reports of a man smashing windows with a sledgehammer at the mosque on Birchfield Road.
West Midlands Police have promised to put more officers in charge of tackling the rise in knife crime after another teenager lost his life in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. A senior West Midlands Police officer today pledged to leave ‘no stone unturned’ in the hunt for the killer or killers of a boy…
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.
Thousands of worshippers congregated in a Birmingham park today to mark the start of Eid celebrations. The rain held off and the atmosphere was vibrant and exciting as people flowed into Small Heath Park for outdoor prayers to mark Eid al-Adha.
A Birmingham councillor has launched an emergency appeal to drop off essential items to families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in West London. Mariam Khan, city councillor for Birmingham Washwood Heath, is calling on Brummies to donate items as soon as possible, which she will be delivering directly to those affected later today.
Former Birmingham city councillor Salma Yaqoob is standing as a candidate in Bradford West in the upcoming general election, she has announced. Salma, a political activist and qualified psychotherapist, has thrown her hat into the ring following a six-year hiatus from political office, after stepping down as councillor for Birmingham Sparkbrook back in July 2011, due to ill…
A Muslim councillor from Birmingham has totally schooled an online racist after being told to “f*** off” out of the country. Cllr Mariam Khan, who represents the Birmingham Washwood Heath ward, was targeted by Facebook user ‘Dawn Lees’ in a vitriolic hate-filled attack posted publicly under a Birmingham Mail news story yesterday.
The new Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Carl Rice, joined revellers at Birmingham Pride over the Bank Holiday weekend, where he took time out to support working rights for LGBT people, and even revealed singer Bryan Ferry may have been one of his secret teen crushes. Attending the city’s special twentieth anniversary gay pride celebrations,…
West Midlands Police have responded to claims that a “homeless” man was arrested from a McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham city centre. During an incident just over a week ago, a local teenager confronted an officer from West Midlands Police after over five officers were sent to a McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham’s Cherry Street to remove…