A Birmingham firm run by an Asian family forced to flee Uganda during the terror reign of Idi Amin terror and then had their shop burnt down in the Handsworth riots has a new lease of life – thanks to a key business initiative.Read
Details have been revealed of the first eight development projects that will benefit to the tune of more than £12 million from the Growing Places Fund.Read
The developer behind a £50 million plan to build student accommodation on the site of Birmingham’s former Central Fire Station has pulled out of a similar project in Portsmouth – reigniting the Aston “tombstone” row.Read
A special Jazz Club Friday at the Bartons Arms, in Aston, Birmingham, this week will be a memorial gig to mark the first anniversary of the death of drummer Tony Levin.Read
A hoaxer who emailed MI5 to claim he had planted a bomb at Ozzy Osbourne's old junior school in Birmingham has been warned by a court to expect a substantial prison sentence.Read
A Birmingham police station that had its custody block mothballed in a cost-cutting drive has been chosen as the site for a big new cell block in the city.Read
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