The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
After the windows of a mosque in the Sparkhill of Birmingham area were smashed by a dangerous individual last Friday (4 November), people have come together and raised money to have the windows repaired. Within days of a GoFundMe campaign being launched around £1,300 was raised to replace the broken windows.
The Muslim community in Sparkhill has been left shocked as people awoke to news that their local mosque had been vandalised in the early hours of Friday morning. The appalling incident took place at 6:43am today (4 November) and local people are still reeling from the shocking attack.
A-list music stars came to Coventry over the weekend, with the likes of Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Anne-Marie, Calvin Harris, and Becky Hill taking to the stage in front of tens of thousands of fans at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Held at Coventry’s War Memorial Park, the three-day event made its comeback following a break during the pandemic,…
Harry Styles has been added to the line-up, headlining Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2022 in Coventry on Sunday 29 May, with Pa Salieu and Rina Sawayama also joining the star-studded line-up. Radio 1’s flagship live music event will welcome an audience of 80,000 BBC Radio 1 fans to War Memorial Park from 27-29 May 2022…