The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Aston Villa Football Club’s huge stadium expansion plan – worth £100m – has been approved by Birmingham City Council. Permission has been granted by the city’s planning department for phase one of a major expansion and redevelopment of Villa Park.
A second man has been charged in connection with the murder of a teenager who was tragically stabbed to death in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. Mohamed Abdulkarim, 18, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday (20 December) accused of murdering Yahya Sharif who was fatally stabbed in Coventry Road, Small Heath.
The first-ever Aston Community Games will be launched this weekend by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. To mark a year until the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and to bring communities back together following pandemic isolation over the last 18 months, Brummies are being invited to an outdoor sports-fest in the sunshine.
A man has been jailed after offering a woman money for sex before savagely raping her. Khadim Drame had followed the woman, in her 40s, off a bus as she made her way home from her boyfriend’s house. She told 18-year-old Drame to leave her alone, before crossing the road to avoid him.
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 Police are appealing for information after a 19-year-old man was stabbed in Witton yesterday afternoon. A major road near the Aston area of the city has been shut after the young man was stabbed in a callous broad daylight attack.
Police are investigating after four mosques in Birmingham had their windows smashed overnight. Police were called at 2.32am today (21 March) to reports of a man smashing windows with a sledgehammer at the mosque on Birchfield Road.