The Latest Breaking News from Birmingham

New BSA Gold Star Paint Job Has A Much Cooler Backstory Than You’d Expect

BSA gives the Gold Star 650 Birmingham Blue and Brooklands Black paint, with both colors digging deep into its history.

RideApart · 12h ago

Harry and Meghan Call Photographers 'Reckless' Over Kids' School After Student Complained: 'Six Cameras in My Face'

Harry and Meghan criticised photographers seen near their children's school, while police investigate and a separate Birmingham pupil complained about cameras.

International Business Times UK · 19h ago

Grooming gangs inquiry to investigate offending in Wales and Birmingham

National inquiry will conduct local investigations and look at wider picture of sexual abuse and exploitation of children

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

African Village In America: Minter turns yard into 400-year Black history walk; art world weighs preservation

Joe Minter has dedicated several decades to creating the African Village in America, a sculptural landscape in Birmingham. Initiated in 1989, this project chronicles 400 years of Black American history, utilizing materials sourced from the local environment. With a focus on civil rights and the African diaspora, Minter recently received…

The Times of India · Sep 29

Andrea Bocelli to embark on 2027 UK tour for 30th anniversary of Romanza album

The opera singer, 68, will visit Birmingham, London, Manchester and Glasgow between September 29 and October 9.

Evening Standard · Sep 28

Rod Stewart announces farewell tour ‘The Final Encore’. Here’s how to get tickets

Stewart’s The Final Encore tour will include dates in England, Ireland, and the US

The Independent UK · Sep 28

Sir Rod Stewart announces UK and Ireland tour which will ‘definitely be my last’

Sir Rod’s The Final Encore tour will include dates in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Manchester.

Evening Standard · Sep 28

Prince Harry’s Invictus Games ‘may get shot in the arm from Amazon deal’

The online giant is poised to back the Duke of Sussex’s Birmingham Games as preparations accelerate for the competition’s return to Britain.

BANG Premier · Sep 27

£13.8m Cannabis Plot Unravels After Apple AirTags in Suitcases Lead Border Force to Smuggling Gang

AirTag data helped the NCA connect luggage used by a smuggling gang after Border Force seized 460kg of cannabis from couriers arriving at Birmingham Airport.

International Business Times UK · Sep 23

This Photographer Captures Stillness In Underground Stations And Buildings (48 Pics)

How do you find complete stillness in cities where millions of people walk through every single day? This photographer figured it out.Growing up in an artistic household inspired photographer Max Vassiades to pick up the camera. Raised in Cyprus, he moved to the UK to study Visual Communication, Branding, and…

Bored Panda · Sep 22