Community News

A man who came over from Jamaica in the 1950s and knew Bob Marley has just celebrated his 100th birthday with a bottle of rum and a song.

The renowned Page Turner Awards, an international writing competition that celebrates exceptional storytelling, have announced its opening to submissions for the 2024 season.

Birmingham City Council has formally backed the Climate & Ecology Bill, after passing a motion earlier this month in support of the bill.

Another group of young people have joined the City of Wolverhampton Youth Council as the 46 successful candidates – who attend schools across the city – were officially announced at a special event in the Council Chamber on Monday 29 January.

The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) and the National Literacy Trust are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Ruth Rendell Award, which recognises the writer or author who has had the most significant influence on literacy in the UK over the past year.

Following the decision made on decommissioning work on Community Safety CCTVs in Birmingham, a statement was made by Councillor John Cotton, Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion, Community Safety and Equalities, and Leader of the City Council.

It will be legal to own one of the dogs, but they must be muzzled and on a lead in public from that date. Selling or exchanging them will be banned.

City of Wolverhampton Council has stepped up patrols in the city centre to crack down on illegal parking in taxi ranks.

Birmingham’s Lunar New Year Festival shines a spotlight on the fantastic talent within the region and celebrates the many communities marking the Lunar New Year.

Global arts producer, Wild in Art, has announced that it will return to Birmingham in summer 2025, to deliver a brand-new art trail, based on the city’s iconic bronze bull, in partnership with Birmingham Hospice.

A £1.7 million package of support to help community-focussed businesses improve the lives of more local people in some of the region’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods has been launched by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

To celebrate National Fun at Work Day on Friday 26th January, Merlin Entertainments shone a spotlight on some of its most interesting and entertaining jobs.

University Railway Station’s impressive new buildings open their doors to passengers for the first time today (Sunday, 28th January).

The City of Wolverhampton Council welcomed the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing and members of the Children’s Social Care National Implementation Board to the city, after it was picked as one of three areas in England to deliver the new Families First for Children programme.

Plans to transform a key shopping centre in Royal Sutton Coldfield with new homes, leisure, retail, commercial and other uses are being backed by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

Birmingham’s annual civic commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day will be staged at the Council House, as the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Chaman Lal, leads the event on Monday 29 January.