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Birmingham’s Supersonic arts festival has global appeal

Birmingham’s Supersonic festival is set to double the number of international visitors this year by taking inspiration from Barcelona’s Sonar Festival. Read

Freestyle Interactive designs website for Rebecca Adlington

Double Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer Rebecca Adlington has launched a new website designed by Warwickshire-based digital agency Freestyle Interactive. Read

WAA wins Birmingham business tourism contract

Advertising agency WAA is celebrating a hat-trick of new business wins, including a project to boost Birmingham as a first-class meeting place. Read

TV chef's ambitious expansion plans were almost a recipe for disaster

Profits at Gordon Ramsay’s UK restaurants plunged nearly 90 per cent in a “turbulent” year in which the celebrity chef was forced to pump his own money into the business. Read

Trinity Mirror axes Midlands titles

Birmingham Post owner Trinity Mirror Midlands has announced plans to cut a number of newspapers to secure its long term future. Read

Blockbusters help box office sales at Cineworld

Blockbusters including Slumdog Millionaire, X-Men and Transformers drove half-year box office sales up by 17.9 per cent at Cineworld. Read

UK advertising spending falls by 4.3 per cent

New research shows that spending on advertising dropped dramatically last year as the economy faltered. Read

Rainbow pub to test Birmingham council petition system

An online petition calling for Birmingham City Council to drop the noise abatement order against The Rainbow pub is set to be the first major test of the authority’s newly-introduced system. Read

Seal awarded role in Telford transformation

Multi-channel communications agency Seal has been awarded a marketing brief to transform Telford Shopping Centre. Read

Moseley to host first community-led co-working space

The first dedicated community-led co-working space in the West Midlands is launching next weekend in the south Birmingham suburb of Moseley. Read

TAK! put Birmingham's Pre-Raphaelite art online

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery’s project to put its world-class Pre-Raphaelite collection online has gone live with the help of local design agency TAK! Read

PHWT reward director team with shareholdings

Palmer Hargreaves Wallis Tomlinson founder Andrew Clift has broadened ownership of the agency with shareholdings taken by a number of the senior PHWT director team in the UK and Germany. Read

Leamington to be focus of £14m boost to creative businesses

A refurbished church building in the centre of the West Midlands’ video games capital is to be at the focal point of a £14 million programme to support creative and digital businesses in Warwickshire. Read

Steve Gerrard snaps up Birmingham shopkeepers for exhibition

A photography exhibition featuring portraits of Birmingham shopkeepers taken by renowned local photographer Steve Gerrard will go on display in the city centre this week. Read

Creative director Paul Baker to leave WAA

WAA has said its creative director Paul Baker is leaving the firm after less than six months in the role. Read

Animation Forum WM head to Glastonbury

This weekend’s Glastonbury Festival goers were treated to a number of animated short films by Animation Forum WM members. Read

TAMBA link up with SockShop.co.uk

Online retailer SockShop.co.uk has appointed Staffordshire-based viral marketing partner TAMBA. Read

Birmingham's Broad Street under review

Strategic market research consultancy Research by Design has been brought in to measure the performance of the Broad Street Business Improvement District (BID). Read

Bostin Heroes proves a real comic book story

West Midland entrepreneur Donato Esposito is gearing up to release his latest online story in the Birmingham and Black Country-themed comic book series Bostin Heroes. Read