Community News

Over the last 150 years, Worcester Cathedral’s Voluntary Choir has been a key part of the city’s musical and cultural life, with hundreds of children and adult choristers wearing the choir’s distinctive blue cassocks to sing in the Cathedral on Sunday evenings.

Helping to recognise the outstanding contribution the Friends of Witton Lakes (FOWL) group provide in maintaining and improving Witton Lakes Park in Erdington, in Birmingham, the McCarthy Stone Foundation has donated £500 to encourage more local people connect with nature.

With searches for ‘festivals 2024’ increasing by 2,450% many will be preparing to see some of the biggest headliners around the world at festivals such as Boomtown and Tomorrowland.

Holiday activities provided through the Yo! Wolves summer programme are now fully underway, with thousands of children and young people signing up to take part.

From 18 July, the UK has been celebrating South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM), which was set up in 2019 to recognise and acknowledge the contributions the communities have made to Britain.

The Leader of the City of Wolverhampton Council has visited the Good Night Project to see and hear for himself the progress being made on helping everyone in the city to have a bed of their own.

Amir Khan has slammed far-right thugs who draped themselves in the Union flag.

Later this month, McCarthy Stone is throwing open its doors to local retirees to show how its brand-new Retirement Living development in Edgbaston can help them live happier, healthier lives.

Leading housebuilder Barratt Homes has seen an impressive influx of buyers from the Hong Kong community at its Romans’ Quarter development in Bingham and Beeston Quarter development in Beeston.

With a heat wave on the horizon, Mulligans Birmingham has revealed that almost a third of people said that insects are the worst thing about summer. 

On Monday, May 27, a delegation from the University of Oxford visited GNNSJ Birmingham to learn more about the Sikh faith and pay their respects to Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

A mesmerising and moving show which brings Vincent van Gogh’s works to swirling life around its visitors has opened in Birmingham.

Professor Graeme Betts, acting chief executive at Birmingham City Council, has announced he will be leaving the city council.

Stephen Lawrence's father has said he is shocked and upset by the decision to return his son's body to the UK from Jamaica 31 years on.

The Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Foster, has issued the following statement amid scenes of disorder and violence here in the West Midlands:

At a moment when violence and hatred has burst in upon so many of our communities, creating fear and doubt, we need to draw on the resources of our faiths in the service of our city and all its people.