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Aston Events Centre attracts big names

A POPULAR centre which has been a mainstay of the city’s social scene for the past three decades is bringing back the good times to Birmingham by attracting big names from the sporting and music world. Read

Fears for safety of homes with estate plant plague

THE Triffid-like menace of Japanese Knotweed is creeping relentlessly across one of Birmingham’s historic garden suburbs, growing through walls and pavements. Read

Group targets males in bid to tackle domestic abuse

THE first group of its kind has been launched in Birmingham to tackle domestic violence with men taking a leading role. Read

Aston Villa put Acorns Children's Hospice on their shirts

ASTON Villa are teaming up with Acorns children's hospice in a unique partnership deal that is making Premier league history. Read

Birmingham tearaway Karl Fitzharris turns his life around

HE was once Birmingham's tiny tearaway who struck terror into the hearts of his teachers. But a decade later, Karl Fitzharris is all grown up and back on the straight and narrow. Read

Tailor George Saunders picks up needle and thread again for history project

RETIRED tailor George Saunders is getting out his needle and thread again - but this time it’s to star in part of a unique history project which charts the hardship many migrant workers faced as they settled in Birmingham. Read

'Frogeye' feast for landmark

IT was the biggest party on record to celebrate the 50th birthday of a baby sports car that represented all the excitement and glamour of swinging sixties Britain. Read

Birmingham's first urban art bar

TWO pints and a print please! That's what customers can buy at Birmingham's first urban art bar where limited edition screen prints line the walls. Read

Centre wows Jamaican prime ministers

A ONE-stop shop to help Birmingham people develop their potential impressed a premier so much he is to launch a similar scheme in Jamaica. Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, made a whistle stop tour of the Pertemps People Development Group, in Newtown. Read

Milestone birthday for Jewish Herman

HE’S been a survivor against all odds all his life. But Herman Wessel has just passed another milestone in his fascinating life – his 100th birthday. Read

Relative of JRR Tolkein boosts regeneration project

A RELATIVE of one of Birmingham's most famous sons has stepped in to boost one of the city's biggest regeneration projects. Read

Staff battle to save jobs

PEOPLE packed a public meeting in Birmingham to hear how a centre which houses asylum seekers is fighting to save 135 staff jobs. Read

16 youngsters pick up education awards

Sixteen young people in Birmingham have become the second group to win Letisha & Charlene Education Awards, in memory of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis. POPPY BRADY caught up with them as they were presented with certificates for their success. Read

Fears over asylum seeker's death

FRIENDS fear a woman found dead at her Birmingham home may have starved herself to death over fears she was going to be deported to her home country. Read

10 year old twins become Black Belts in Tae Kwon Do

THE TABLES are turned at a Birmingham school where the teachers have to call twins Magnus and Conrad Yap 'Sir'. Read

Dunkirk spirit of 1940s Brum

BIRMINGHAM families have a chance to sit in an air raid shelter, hear 1940s music and imagine what life was like for people in the city fighting for survival during the Second World War. Read

New life for Brum beat HQ

IT'S been rocking and rolling for five decades and now the future sounds good for Birmingham's very own house of music. Read

Pensioner takes on council over cherry tree

BATTLING Gladys Jones is taking on the might of Birmingham City Council single handedly after she called one of their senior tree officers a "vandal" for chopping down a flowering cherry tree outside her home. Read

Regeneration scheme attracts national attention

ONE of Birmingham’s biggest regeneration schemes, involving the bulldozing of 1,400 homes, is being seen as a trail blazer for similar schemes across Britain. Read

Plea for security cameras in tower block

ANXIOUS residents who survived an arson attack on their 20-storey city tower block are being reassured that security cameras will be installed within the next two weeks to stem the rising tide of vandalism which is now putting people’s lives at risk. Read