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WHAT'S ON: Two Minute Guide To The Week from Friday, August 5, 2011.

THIS year’s summer show at Stoneleigh Park Showground will be held from August 13 to 14 and feature an off-roader festival called Land Rover Max.Read

Days Out: Brockholes Floating Nature Reserve

JUST when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes a development to really take your breath away...Read

A Walk in the Park: Selly Park Recreation Ground

HOW many people take out expensive gym passes... only to let them lapse?Read

Urban Walk: Yardley Green Road

START: Newbridge Baptist Church, Yardley Green Road, B9 5JJRead

WHAT'S ON: The Two Minute Guide to the Week from Friday, July 29, 2011.

THE BIENNIAL Birmingham Carnival will be held on Sunday, August 7 this year.Read

Days Out: Trentham Estate, Stone Road, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent

THE beauty of showbusiness is that it’s all about entertainment and make-believe.Read

Urban Walk: Much to admire at university

A WALKS programme set up between ramblers, Centro and the University of Birmingham sustainable transport staff had me wondering who’d turn up for a walk around their own workplace.Read

A Walk in the Park: Dudley Canal Trust Trips

MUM-to-be Julia Bradbury recently wrote a book called Canal Walks to coincide with a BBC TV series which incorporated the Worcester and Birmingham Canal from Gas Street.Read

WHAT'S ON: The Two Minute Guide to the Week from July 22, 2011.

A CULTURAL Olympiad event across the West Midlands this weekend will celebrate the ‘one year to go to London 2012 milestone’.Read

Days Out: Step back into a wonderful world

THE more I visit this place, the more I love how it has been so gently and carefully expanded over the years.Read

A Walk in the Park: Belle Vue Play Area

WHEN I first arrived in Birmingham and talked to older folks, they’d refer to places like Moseley and Kings Heath as ‘villages’.Read

Urban Walk: Come along for some fun by the river

THE Safer Corridors Project is a Centro-led initiative to target main routes across the city to create alternative travel options along and around them. Read

A Walk in the Park: Witton Lane Gardens

EYEBROWS were raised when the former Witton Lane Stand at Aston Villa became the Doug Ellis Stand.Read

Days Out: Worcestershire County Museum

THERE are more than 1,000 years of history at Worcester County Museum at Hartlebury Castle.Read

Urban Walk: Hobmoor Road, Bordesley Green, B10 9BT

AFTER once again braving the unkind elements at this year’s Glastonbury, I was glad to return to firm ground in the city.Read

A Walk in the Park: Bournville Girls' Rec

EVEN garden-loving Japanese visitors are said to be open-mouthed when they visit this park for the first time.Read

Urban Walk: A good pub can get you in the mood

IT COULD be argued that the spirit of summer parties has lured me into a few too many nights out of late. Great fun at the time but occasionally a regretful morning after. Read

Days Out: Evesham Country Park, Ark Animal Sanctuary and Evesham Light Railway

FANCY a lovely drive out into the country with something different for various members of your family to enjoy at the end of it?Read

WHAT'S ON: Two Minute Guide to the Week from Friday, June 24, 2011.

THE Electric Cinema on Station Street is launching its first mini horror festival next weekend.Read

Urban Walk: How to enjoy safety and fun together

IT WAS about this time last year that I met a charming group from Goldieslie Close in Sutton Coldfield.Read