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Walk In The Park: Stirchley Micro Park

IN LIFE, it’s a good truism that if you look after the little things, then everything else will take care of itself.Read

Cineworld Broad Street has widescreen TV sets stolen by raiders

THE FICTIONAL world of cops and robbers came to Cineworld’s flagship Birmingham cinema for real when raiders smashed their way into the multiplex.Read

X-Factor contestant Mitch McPike reveals how Birmingham City coach prepared him for auditions

FORMER Blues’ Academy midfielder Mitchell McPike has revealed how he used psychology to overcome the daunting process of auditioning for The X Factor.Read

Ex Birmingham City player turned X Factor contestant revals songs in shower gave him confidence to audition

FORMER Birmingham City trainee Mitch McPike is set to make a new name for himself off the pitch – as a member of The X Factor’s latest boy band, The Risk. Read

Brum stars set to shine at National Television Awards

THE cream of Birmingham’s showbusiness community is well represented on the shortlist for this year’s 17th National Television Awards.Read

Pictures: Harry Potter twins help to celebrate Millennium Point's tenth birthday.

HARRY Potter twins James and Oliver Phelps were almost feeling 10ft tall at Millennium Point.Read

Robbie Savage is set to go head to head with old foe Dion Dublin

FORMER Blues star Robbie Savage is set to go head to head again with ex-Villa striker Dion Dublin.Read

Film Review: Soul Surfer (PG) * * *

SURFING movies are hard to make because of the difficulties involved with filming.Read

Film Review: Tucker & Dale vs Evil (15) * * * and Villain (15) * * *

THIS genre-twisting horror film will be perfect for anyone seeking a low-budget thriller to watch on a Friday night. It’s only showing at AMC Broadway Plaze and Showcase Erdington but it has far more going for it than last week’s limited release of the abominable You Instead.Read

Walk In The Park: Tudor Grange Park, Blossomfield Road, Solihull

SOLIHULL has thrown down a remarkable gauntlet to Birmingham with a £1 million redevelopment of its town centre Tudor Grange Park.Read

Film Review: Drive (18) * * * *

MOVIES like The Fast and the Furious and Death Race have conditioned us to expecting car thrillers to be given a fuel injection of speed and danger every five seconds.Read

Film Review: The Change-Up (15) *

DISTRIBUTORS Universal released this film last week without offering any regional previews. Hoodwinkers!Read

Days Out: Dig For Shakespeare at New Place, Straford-upon-Avon

THE Midlands region has had some pretty impressive holes in the ground in recent years.Read

Film Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love (12A) * * * *

WHICH type of actor do you prefer – the straight men who can be funny or the comedians who can play it straight?Read

Arches Chippy

Chip Shop review: Arches Fish and Chips, Slade Road, Erdington

WHAT are the odds of finding a chippy called the Arches (pronounced like the fake 60s Sugar Sugar pop stars The Archies) at the corner of Abbey Road and Slade Road.Read

FILM REVIEW: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (15) ++++

as Toby Esterhase (Bernard Hepton).Read

FILM REVIEW: Jane Eyre (PG) ***

MUCH has been made of the pressure Gary Oldman must have felt following Sir Alec Guinness in the remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.Read

FILM REVIEW: I Don't Know How She Does It (12A) **

SARAH Jessica Parker’s new movie wins two stars – only because women of a certain age will enjoy its comfort zone without being offended by the modern rage for vulgarity as in Jennifer Aniston’s lamentable Horrible Bosses.Read

FILM REVIEW: 30 Minutes or Less (15) **

YOU have to wonder sometimes what makes actors sign on the dotted line.Read

Film Review: You instead (15) No stars!

I FELT sorry for film director David Mackenzie when he told me in 2003 how production on The Last Great Wilderness – which should then have been his breakthrough movie – had been badly hit by the foot and mouth crisis. Nightmare.Read