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Eating mushrooms has benefits for your health

AUTUMN is the perfect time for a funghi foray and whether you have found your mushrooms in the local woods or the local supermarket there are plenty of good reasons to eat them.Read

Kickboxing champ pins her hopes on a revolutionary treatment to cure her scoliosis

YOUNG kickboxer Paige Davis risks having to give up the sport she loves after suffering spinal problems – but she is pinning her hopes on a revolutionary treatment to keep her feet in the air.Read

Academic urges Birmingham to take up education project aimed at black boys

BIRMINGHAM is being urged to take up a pioneering education project aiming to help black boys succeed in school.Read

Phil beats booze habit to turn his life around

NINE years ago, Phil O’Driscoll was living under bridges in Birmingham, spending any cash he could scrape together to feed his alcohol addiction.Read

Theatre: Brian Conley in a woman's world for musical

HE has successfully managed a stage and television career of more than 30 years but taking a part in the musical Hairspray was the first time that actor Brian Conley has donned a dress for his job.Read

Top tenor Bocelli back to his best for Birmingham visit

TUSCAN tenor Andrea Bocelli is promising fans an evening to remember when he returns to the city next month for a rescheduled concert.Read

Paula Wilcox relishes Birmingham Repertory role as ageing pop star

IT is the perfect opening question. With actress Paula Wilcox, who first rose to fame playing squeaky clean roles in sitcoms such as The Lovers and Man About the House, on the end of the phone I asked the following.Read

Choir hope to raise £15k for heart fund

SINGERS are being asked to raise the roof at Birmingham Town Hall and raise cash for the battle against heart disease.Read

Review: The Grapes of Wrath at Birmingham Rep Theatre

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OK, so no-one expects John Steinbeck to be a bundle of laughs but the relentless nature of this adaptation of his epic Dust Bowl novel The Grapes of Wrath is enough to batter us all into the ground.Read

Andrea Bocelli apologises for cancelling Birmingham concert

SINGER Andrea Bocelli today apologised to the thousands of fans who were left disappointed after the last minute cancellation of his Birmingham concert.Read

Birmingham pupils discover reality of life in Sierra Leone

YOUNGSTERS at a Birmingham school have been learning about life in Sierra Leone – from their counterparts in the African nation.Read

Hypnotherapy helped mum through a 36-hour delivery of her son without pain relief

Why should women put up with the pain of childbirth? That is the controversial view of one midwifery expert who believes an ‘epidemic’ of epidurals and other pain-relieving drugs is leading to problems such as prolonged labours.Read

Theatre: High School Musical 2 show heads to Wolverhampton and Birmingham

THE HIGH School Musical phenomenon may have conquered the world but actor Les Dennis admits it had totally bypassed him – until he was offered a part in the stage show.Read

Breast cancer survivors join forces with Cancer Research UK to raise awareness

WHEN Toni Bourne went for a consultation over breast reduction she had no idea within a few weeks she would need to have both breasts removed due to cancer.Read

Former refugee using Birmingham University masters degree to help homeland

THIS summer when Marcianne Uwimana received her masters degree at Birmingham University there were few who could match her achievement.Read

Cross-Channel wing-walker Tom Lackey, 89, raises cash for cancer charity

VETERAN fundraiser Tom Lackey is to hand over £500 to Breakthrough Breast Cancer after becoming the oldest man to cross the English Channel on the wings of a plane.Read

Tommy Steele hopes tunnel vision doesn't scupper his Hippodrome return as Scrooge in Christmas Carol

TOMMY Steele is looking forward to coming back to one of his favourite theatres, the Birmingham Hippodrome – if he can find it.Read

Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate Adrian Johnson getting into the community

BIRMINGHAM’S new Poet Laureate was hard at work reading verse in the city centre today just hours after his appointment was announced.Read

Review: Evita at Birmingham Hippodrome

FIRSTLY, I need to nail my colours to the mast and admit this Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about the Argentinian leader Eva Peron is one of my favourite shows.Read

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