This was the scene earlier in the present day as households waded by flooded streets in Birmingham following a serious water leak on Stratford Highway. Severn Trent has confirmed {that a} burst principal water pipe within the Sparkhill space of the town resulted in residents being left with out water...
Review: The Gangs of New York, Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
Photograph: Mark McNulty Phrases – Paul Crofts / Footage – Mark McNulty & WAC On an excellent summer time’s night, I took my seat at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre for a efficiency of ‘The Gangs of New York’. Based mostly on Herbert Astbury’s novel set amongst the clashing communities...
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
Phrases: Angela Ferguson / Images: WAC & Storyhouse This summer season we received to take in the spectacle that's Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre in additional methods than one. It was a magical August night after we returned to the park to look at Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Significance of...
Review: New summer menu launch at The Forge restaurant
Phrases and pictures: Paul Crofts The Forge restaurant at Resort Indigo in Chester’s historic metropolis centre has change into a staple of Chester’s positive eating supply over the previous few years. To have a good time its model new summer season menu, The Forge held a glittering launch occasion. We...
Porter’s: Cardiff’s most unique venue needs your help!
Be part of us as we dive into the primary in a collection of unbiased enterprise profiles right here on We Are Cardiff. First up is likely one of the most unusual venues now we have right here in Cardiff (probably Wales, and the world?). Porter’s has at all times...
LIVE UPDATES: General Election 2024 – Birmingham results | I Am Birmingham
Voting has closed throughout the nation for the UK Basic Election and now the method of vote counting and outcomes bulletins begins. We’re on the ICC for the Birmingham depend and can deliver you outcomes as we get them, together with opinion, interviews, galleries and video updates. You can too...
Review: Curtains at St Mary’s Creative Space
Phrases: Angela Ferguson Pictures: Stephen Cain Pictures It’s an autumnal kinda summer time’s night after I set foot contained in the welcoming heat of the Chester gem that's St Mary’s Artistic Area. It’s additionally a college evening, after I’m normally holed up at house with the prospect of a great...
We got the party started at P!NK’s SUMMER CARNIVAL in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium
Phrases: Chloe Jackson-NottPhotography: Excessive Fives & Stage Dives Flying, bungee leaping, free falling and a lot extra at P!nk’s Summer season Carnival! It’s an enormous understatement to say the get together began in Principality Stadium; the best present on earth started! Kicking off the present as help acts had been...
Passenger anger at new mayor as regional bus fares set to rise across West Midlands | I Am Birmingham
Public transport customers have been left raging after bus fare hikes had been introduced solely a month after the brand new West Midlands mayor was elected on pledges to cut back ticket costs. Charges for day and season bus tickets are set to rise by a median of 6% on the...
PETA stunt displays ‘trapped orca’ in busy shopping street to protest animal abuse in leisure tourism – I Am Birmingham
An activist dressed up as an “orca” was displayed in a ‘tank’ outdoors a leisure tourism retailer in Birmingham as we speak, protesting alleged animal cruelty. The publicity stunt organised by animal rights group PETA concerned a campaigner in a dolphin costume pleading to be freed as they lay “trapped in a cramped tank”...