The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
An amateur barber from Birmingham has gone viral by helping people with lockdown haircuts over social media. Anthony Weir, a graphic designer at Creative Media Design, learned to cut his own hair before the lockdown and is now helping others via Instagram Live. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the world and whole populations…
A new study warns the coronavirus crisis has fuelled online hate speech by racist and fascist groups and individuals which could lead to attacks against British Muslims after the lockdown. The study carried out by Imran Awan, Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University and Roxana Khan-Williams, found that Islamophobic online ‘Cyber Hubs’ were being…
Police have rebuked a ‘fake’ video being shared on social media which aims to demonise Birmingham Muslims by claiming they are congregating at a mosque in Small Heath during the coronavirus lockdown. In recent days, the video has been circulating across social media allegedly showing a large group of worshippers entering and leaving a mosque following…
Hundreds of people all over Birmingham have joined forces to create a network of volunteers to help the homeless and elderly in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Individuals, charities and residents groups have come together to launch Birmingham Community Solidarity, a new initiative focusing on helping the most vulnerable as key to protecting the wider…
The creator of an unexpectedly hugely popular online comic strip has cancelled her upcoming UK tour, despite it selling out after only one Instagram post. Catana Chetwynd, creator of Catana Comics, has had to pull out of planned visits to Waterstones bookstores in Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds and London, which were due to begin tomorrow.
A convicted con woman who spent more than two years on the run in Turkey is finally behind bars after West Midlands Police arrested her on Thursday 27th February at Birmingham Airport. Leah Farley skipped the country in autumn 2017 days before she was due to be sentenced for her part in online scams that…
Several official Facebook cafés are set to open in London in a bid to encourage privacy checks. The social media brand’s flagship Facebook café will be a pop-up coffee shop located inside The Attendant on Great Eastern Street and will be open on August 28 and 29.
Radio presenter, blogger and proud brummie, Dave Massey is the founder and curator of BrumHour; a community where Birmingham businesses, blogs and freelancers can network. The brand has amassed 25k followers on Twitter. We caught up with the man behind BrumHour to find out what five years of the online community has brought to Birmingham, and where he plans to take…
Shocking footage has emerged of a group of people laughing as they burn a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower on an outdoor bonfire. Branded as “sickening and disgraceful”, the video – which has been shared widely across social media – shows a home-made model of the tower being set alight.
A popular YouTuber has broadcast an epic rant on his online video channel tackling the subject of “too many foreigners”, Muslims and immigrants in Britain. Jack Dean – aka JaackMaate – has laid into critics of immigrants, Muslims and “foreigners”, questioning the right-wing notion of “My Britain”, often used to justify xenophobic, Islamophobic and of…