The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A man has been arrested for the brutal murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death in the Hockley area of Birmingham on Saturday (31st July). Police arrested the man at around 9pm on Sunday after extensive CCTV and other enquiries led officers across the border into Staffordshire.
Birmingham City Council has secured almost 30,000 additional lateral flow testing kits following a successful door-to-door operation in COVID hotspots across the city. Three quarters of the 80,000 rapid testing kits supplied by the Department of Health and Social Care when Birmingham became an area of enhanced support on 14 June have now been distributed…
A team of Hip-Hop dance artists have been announced for a new ‘Roaming Dance’ commission for Birmingham International Dance Festival 2021. In partnership with DanceXchange and Punch Records, north Birmingham community arts hub Saathi House have commissioned the talented Joseph Toonga, Emma Houston and Bellatrix to deliver two projects for ‘Roaming Dance’, one of six large-scale…
Community organisations in North Birmingham have put a call out for local artists to create interactive art installations and projects to engage and empower local residents, to the tune of £100,000. Gallery37 North – an initiative working on creative projects in and around Aston, Birchfield, Perry Barr, Erdington, Lozells and Handsworth Wood – is looking…
Community organisations in north-east Birmingham have put a call out for local artists to create art installations to engage and empower local residents. Gallery37 North – an initiative working on creative projects in and around Aston, Witton, Birchfield, Perry Barr, Erdington, Lozells and Newtown – is looking to recruit artists from Birmingham for seven new…
West Midlands Fire Service have issued a warning for residents to stay safe to keep “doors and windows closed” as a “severe” fire rages at an industrial estate in the Tyseley area of Birmingham this evening. Plumes of black smoke can be seen for miles as firefighters bravely try to control the fire at the…