Community News

Birmingham City Council has successfully prosecuted a company for failing to comply with an Improvement Notice relating to fire safety measures – the first West Midlands local authority to do so.

Stephanie Peacock, recently named as the new minister in charge of tourism, will be on-site at Excel London for the opening day of this year’s Word Travel Market (WTM) London, the world’s most influential travel and tourism event.

From royal courts to radical protests, from industrial revolutions to global empires – highlighting this compelling new film series during this Black History Month traces the dramatic evolution of power, rights, and freedom across three centuries of British and Irish history.

easyJet has launched its flights on a new twice-weekly route from Birmingham Airport to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

As part of Black History Month and Windrush Day 2025 celebrations, Kirklees Local TV is launching the Windrush Wise Words project, creating 16 videos that capture the detailed stories of first and second-generation Caribbean’ experiences of life in Britain.

Propstore, one of the world’s leading entertainment and music memorabilia auction houses, has revealed outstanding results from Day 1 of its London Music Memorabilia Live Auction, held on Thursday, 23rd October 2025.

One of the most prominent figures to be acknowledged during Black History Month was recognised when English Heritage unveiled a Blue Plaque in honour of her.

City of Wolverhampton Council has put in place initiatives to support unemployed young people into work and training as part of the West Midlands Youth Trailblazer programme.

As Black History Month continues to go from strength-to-strength – well after the October month - people are invited to join M-Shed for a ‘Bristol Bus Boycott Walk’ and ‘Sheroes of the Bristol Bus Boycott’ a powerful afternoon of film and live interviews uncovering the overlooked stories of women who helped shape the civil rights movement in Britain.

Pupils from a local primary school in Birmingham have won a competition to name the suites at a brand-new care home in Erdington.

A care home in Solihull has joined forces with a local nursery in the run-up to International Repair Day. 

Charles and Camilla arrived in Italy for a state visit which will see the King pray alongside the head of the Catholic church.

A south-west London council has reversed its decision to fine a woman £150 for pouring the remnants of her coffee down a gully.

Working people will benefit from thousands of new jobs, affordable homes and more opportunities as the Chancellor announces a half a billion-pound investment package to deliver growth in the Oxford to Cambridge Corridor and cement its status as a global innovation hub.

Passengers travelling this weekend are being warned of changes to journeys between Birmingham and Coventry while track renewal work takes place.

Jamaica-British academic and human rights activist, Sir Geoff Palmer, KT, OBE, who was a professor emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, in Scotland, was recognised, above all, for his groundbreaking achievements in science and the advocacy for racial equality in reshaping British history and earmarking his legacy during Black History Month.