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Perry the Brummie mascot has been having a brilliant time at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, reaching a milestone of 100 appearances across the Games already. You may have spotted him cheering on athletes, meeting fans, ‘high fiving’ volunteers and dancing at official festival sites.
A multi-million pound regeneration of Birmingham’s city centre – which includes bringing the ‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’ back to life as a fountain – is set to be approved by Cabinet next week. The full business case for the first phase of improvements – to be completed before the city welcomes around half a million…
A daring new poster which employs acidic satire to attack and highlight the concept of ‘white privilege’ has been displayed in Digbeth, Birmingham. The parody poster is the work of an enigmatic Birmingham street artist and activist known as Foka Wolf, an anonymous urban creative who is often compared to Banksy in his scathing but hilarious socio-political observations.