On Our Way artist Nilupa Yasmin right chatting to Daniel Richards

Birmingham community turn bus stops into stained-glass art galleries across Handsworth

Seven new bus stops lining Birmingham’s busy Soho Road have been converted into art galleries to celebrate the area’s diverse communities and history. China Plate Theatre artist Nilupa Yasmin has spent months working with local groups to create the dazzling displays for the bus stops along the National Express West Midlands number 74 route between…

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Spider-Man swings into Birmingham to help the homeless during Christmas

Brum ‘Spider-Men’ swing by to deliver food to city homeless with ‘no way home’

Birmingham had its very own Marvel superheroes delivering food to the city’s homeless and vulnerable this Christmas as community volunteers brought some festive cheer and warmth as they delivered food parcels dressed as Spider-Man. Members from The Waste Warriors community volunteer team from Small Heath went around the city on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day delivering…

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Thousands march in Birmingham in act of solidarity for police brutality victim George Floyd

Birmingham city centre was packed with thousands of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protestors on Thursday afternoon to show solidarity for George Floyd, who died as a result of US police brutality on May 25 in Minnesota. The shocking death of the black victim, who kept pleading ‘I can’t breathe’ as a white officer pressed his knee…

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