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Your Schools: Pupils see the bigger picture

YOUNGSTERS from Forestdale Primary School joined forces to re-create a piece of famous art by world-renowned painter Verrocchio.Read

Your Schools: Getting creative to make money

CHILDREN at Little Sutton Primary School have been busy designing and making products to sell for Enterprise Week.Read

Your Schools: Danielle shows determination

A SOLIHULL College student has been crowned West Midlands champion of the under 24s category in this year’s VQ Learner of the Year Awards.Read

Your Charities: Cousins gear up

TWO Birmingham youngsters are bringing pedal power to the aid of life-limited children by joining a charity cycle event.Read

Your Charities: Alliss backs golf event

PETER Alliss helped Edgbaston Golf Club stage a memorable charity day which raised over £25,000 for the Help For Heroes charity.Read

Your Charities: Oh, what a night!

MORE than 400 women who took part in the Starlight Stroll sponsored walk for St Mary’s Hospice were on course to raise £50,000.Read

Your Celebrations: Meeting heroes

CADETS from two local squadrons joined in the Birmingham celebrations on Armed Forces Day.Read

Your Celebrations: Sun shone on outdoor production

AUDIENCES left the Manor House Gardens smiling after an impressive production of The Merchant Of Venice by the Solihull-based Union Theatre.Read

Your Memories: Rose King's 47 years on the buses

ROSE King spent five decades based at the Lea Hall garage, which closes forever later this month.Read

Your Communities: Spreading the green message

ECO-aware residents in Lozells have teamed up to create their own public art as a symbol of the area’s environmental ambitions.Read

Your Communities: Film is launched to help beat the bullies

A FILM to help adults with learning disabilities cope with bullying received its premiere in Birmingham.Read

Your Schools: Young Chris's record run score

SOLIHULL School’s First XI cricket captain has rewritten the record books after scoring a double century in the school’s highest-ever run score.Read

Your Charities: Brothers' peddle power

THREE brothers who are all Midland property company directors completed a 100km cycle ride in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.Read

Your Charities: Go feet first for diabetes funds

PLACES are still available for a charity walk in Solihull on Sunday.Read

Your Charities: Cadets in 45-mile D-day beaches march

CADETS from Rubery embarked on a 45-mile sponsored walk after taking part in the official D-Day memorial parade in Normandy.Read

Your Lives: Tom fought for country and for his workmates

Tom Reynolds MBE, who has died aged 87, experienced adversity in almost every chapter of his life.Read

Your Communities: DJ George is a selfless fundraiser

BEING a hero doesn’t always mean saving someone’s life or risking your own, it can also be having the courage to help other people when you’re battling adversity yourself.Read

Your Celebrations: A happy 21st to city's pioneering transplant unit

THEY were never expected to survive months, let alone years.Read

Your Clubs: Guiding is still going strong...

WHEN Jeannie Holland, a leader from Shard End, informed a division meeting of Cole Valley Guiders that the Kingfisher Project would be celebrating its 25th birthday at Norman Chamberlain playing fields, Jayne Howle, Midlands Project Perception leader, and Penny Hall, Cole Valley Division Commissioner, saw it as a great opportunity to let parents and children know that Girl Guiding was still going strong.Read

Your Memories: Singing for our supper at hospital

ONE of my fond recollections of Selly Oak Hospital is from around the early 1950s when I was a member of Bournville Church Choir, a group of choristers led by Mr Tuffley.Read