Author: Sandro Sorrentino

Kim Kardashian, Mia Khalifa and Madison Ivy are Birmingham’s favourite stars when it comes to porn, according to information obtained from the world’s most popular sex site. BirminghamEastside has obtained data from Pornhub which shows just what users in the city have been doing on the site since the start of the year – and there are some interesting differences from the UK as a whole. For example, the UK’s most popular porn star Lisa Ann comes below 3 other performers when it comes to Birmingham viewers. And only half of the most-searched phrases in the country appear in Birmingham’s top ten. There are some curious quirks in…

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Corbynforlabour.com is the most visited leadership campaign website Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign website is more popular than Andy Burnham‘s, Yvette Cooper‘s, and Liz Kendall‘s, receiving 20,000 hits in June 2015, while both Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall received 15,000, and Yvette Cooper only 10,000. Yvette Cooper: not very popular online Despite Yvette Cooper being seen as the second favourite on the 8th of May, her popularity, based on the online analytics, has diminished significantly in the following month. Visitors on yvettecooper.com also spend the least amount of time on her site: 59 seconds on average. Despite the decline of hits on her official campaign website, Yvette Cooper has managed to secure the…

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Birmingham City Council has revealed that they operate 342 CCTV cameras around Birmingham. The highest density of council-owned cameras in operation is located in the city centre, around High Street. More than one in every twenty cameras operated by Birmingham City Council are situated there. But the council-owned cameras are likely to be a small proportion of CCTV in the city: a report by the CCTV User Group in 2011 calcualted that publicly-owned CCTV cameras – those operated by bodies including councils, police and health authorities – account for fewer than 2 in every 100 cameras. In 2009 the BBC…

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The Office for National Statistics released figures after analysing the appeal of the UK’s top 50 cities to foreign tourists in 2014. The data included elements such as duration of trip, amount of money spent and purpose of visit. The numbers show that the world prefers Manchester to Birmingham, at least when it comes to leisure tourism. Read the full article that accompanies the infographics.

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Birmingham may be England’s Second City, but it lags behind Manchester when it comes to international visitors, according to data obtained from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). See the full infographic here The ONS looked at overseas travellers visiting UK’s 50 most popular cities for the year of 2014. And while Birmingham was visited by approximately 944,000 people last year, Manchester gets over 5% more – just short of a million. The difference is starker when it comes to tourism: in 2014, 174,000 people visited Birmingham for a holiday. But Manchester recorded 250,000 tourists. But when it comes to…

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Total reported hate-crime to West-Midlands Police has fallen since January 2011. West Midlands accounts for less than 10% of all hate crimes reported in Britain and Wales last year. National statistics from the Home Office have revealed that there were 44,480 hate crimes recorded across the UK by the police in 2013-14 – an increase of five per cent on the previous year. Using police.uk, Birmingham Eastside has gathered data from between January 2011 and January 2015 on each of Birmingham’s ten constituencies to see if there has been a reduction in the amount of anti-social behaviour reported to West…

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Erdington has on average the highest paid workers in Birmingham, earning on average £482.40 a week. That’s £64.50 more than the UK average of £417.90 a week. The highest paid sector in Birmingham in 2014 was IT, with an average wage of £41,213. Students account for over 30% of Birmingham’s economically inactive population. While the West Midlands’ employment rate is at its highest since summer 2008 and 19,000 businesses were created in the past year, if you’re a working woman in Birmingham, new data reveals that you are still very likely going to be earning less than your male colleagues.…

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What percentage of votes did they participate in? How much did they claim for travel? How many debates did they engage in? We’ve got all that information in one handy infographic.  Using data from theyworkforyou and the independent parliamentary standards authority we’ve gathered data on your local MPs to see what they were doing in 2014. Check out the Infographic here.

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