Role Models Olympic champion coach Lloyd Cowan dies aged 58
Thursday, 14 January 2021 04:15Athletics coach Lloyd Cowan, who helped Christine Ohuruogu to the Olympic 400m title in 2008, has died. Cowan represented England in the 110m hurdles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games before becoming...
Role Models Dedicated Midlands Air Ambulance Charity Volunteer Retires After 30 Years
Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:42Longstanding volunteer of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, Geoff Woodford, has now retired from his daily support of the rapid response, pre-hospital emergency service after 30 dedicated...
Role Models Soap-making entrepreneur fighting coronavirus in refugee camp
Sunday, 10 January 2021 04:25When Innocent Havyarimana started his soap-making business in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp in early 2015, he was trying to move on from the traumatic events that had made him flee his native Burundi...
Role Models Clap for Carers set to return as Clap for Heroes
Thursday, 07 January 2021 03:56Clap for Carers is set to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said. The weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during...
Role Models Record-breaking champion, Lewis, knighted in New Year Honours
Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:37Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has been knighted in a New Year Honours list. It comes 12 years after he received an MBE for services to motor racing at the end of 2008, the season that he won his...
Role Models City street to be named after Birmingham’s first Black councillor
Monday, 28 December 2020 03:12A new road within the Perry Barr Residential Scheme, in Birmingham, is to be named Bert Carless Way. Alderman Egbert ‘Bert’ Sylvester Carless, made history when he was elected as Birmingham’s first...
Role Models F1 record-breaker Hamilton crowned Sports Personality of the Year 2020 winner
Monday, 21 December 2020 01:05Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020. One of F1's all-time great drivers, he equalled Michael Schumacher's record of seven world titles with...
Role Models Edgbaston dad wins national charity award
Monday, 07 December 2020 02:04Edgbaston father, Saeed Ahmed, has been named ‘Campaigner of the Year’ by the national disability charity, Sense, for sharing his family’s story of caring for his 21-year-old disabled son, Azhar,...
Role Models Black plaque initiative launched to acknowledge Black British heroes
Wednesday, 18 November 2020 04:10As blue plaques are continuing to be put up in places of historic note serve as a permanent tribute to Britain’s notable men and women throughout the UK, one established organisation have joined...
Role Models 23-year old becomes youngest to be certified as a Boeing 777 pilot
Wednesday, 04 November 2020 01:00Malik Sinegal, a 23-year old from Mississippi, has made history as the youngest African American to be certified as a Boeing 777 pilot in the world. He himself did not initially realize just how...
Role Models Pope names first Black American cardinal
Thursday, 29 October 2020 06:51Pope Francis has said he will appoint 13 new Roman Catholic cardinals, among them the first African-American clergyman. The Pope announced the 13 cardinals from...
Role Models Principal Dancer Misty says ballet is listening after George Floyd killing
Thursday, 29 October 2020 06:47Having made history as the first Black Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has said that ballet is listening after George...
Role Models A Leading Light And Inspiration For The Next Generation
Saturday, 10 October 2020 01:07From his early years growing up in the Ashanti region of Ghana, to now inspiring the youth through teaching, leadership and management in the British Army, Emmanuel Asumadu-Aboagye is certainly an...
Role Models The Future is Bright For Talented Treyvan
Friday, 09 October 2020 01:36For many children his age, the only fights that happen are between friends in the playground, but for Treyvan Campbell, it’s top flight football academies that are already fighting over his...
Role Models The man who coined the word ‘reggae’ dies
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 03:08The frontman of legendary reggae band Toots and the Maytals, has died. One of Jamaica's most influential musicians, Toots Hibbert helped popularise reggae in the 1960s with songs like...
Role Models British boxing legend Alan Minter dies
Tuesday, 15 September 2020 03:03The former British world champion, who won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and claimed the undisputed world middleweight title against Italian Vito Antuofermo in Las Vegas in 1980 died...
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