The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Marks & Spencer is set to take over and transform the closed and boarded up Debenhams store in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. Currently based in High Street, the company has secured a deal to take the large unit previously housing Bullring tenant Debenhams, which went into administration in April 2020 and closed down the store earlier…
Tesco Stores Limited has been fined £7.5 million at Birmingham Magistrates Court yesterday, after pleading guilty to selling food which was past its ‘use by’ date in three of its Birmingham stores. Birmingham City Council brought the prosecution under the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 after inspections by Environmental Health officers found stores…
West Midlands council leaders are calling on supermarkets and businesses that remain open during this national lockdown to step-up their COVID-19 safety measures to help combat the surge of infections With cases continuing to rise across the region and the UK entering a new lockdown, people are now required to stay at home except for…
Birmingham’s supermarkets have been left mostly bare as customer panic buying continues due to the coronavirus threat. In what has been unprecedented during peacetime and outside of the annual Christmas chaos, shops are not only rationing items they still have in stock, but also completely selling out of others – with dry foods and toiletries being on the top of…
Local residents have been left shocked as an ice cream van caught fire on a busy Smethwick street, with the flames then spreading to a local high street store. With 20 firefighters currently tackling the blaze in Cape Hill, fire safety officials and asking members of the public to maintain a distance from the fire.
The world’s biggest Primark has opened to shoppers in Birmingham, with thousands of people flooding the store on its launch day. The brand new department store has been set up on the site of the former Pavilions Shopping Centre in High Street, and covers 161,000 sq. ft over five floors, occupying the entire site of a former…
High Street store brand Sports Direct has agreed to buy the fledgling House of Fraser department store chain for £90m. Following House of Fraser going into administration on Friday after talks with its creditors failed to reach an agreement, Sport’s Direct’s Mike Ashley has stepped in to save the business, allowing its 59 shops to remain open, including…