In a special immersive feature, Birmingham Eastside looks into why disability hate crime have tripled in three years – and what’s being done about it.
Author: Victoria Oliveres
One year after the Grenfell tower fire Birmingham Eastside decided to find out which MPs have continued to talk about the topic throughout the past 12 months on Twitter and Facebook. Explore every update yourself using the interactive visualisation below. Data collated from Crowdtangle, analysis and visualisation by Victòria Oliveres In the wake of the Grenfell tower fire last June, dozens of MPs took to social media to express messages of condolence and sympathy. By July the subject still dominated social updates, as the focus turned to questions and commentary about the details emerging around the possible causes of the…
Crimes involving stealing such as thefts of all kind, robberies, burglaries and shopliftings in Birmingham city centre rose more than the total crimes in the same area. This group of offenses increased by 14%, from 556 in January 2017 to 633 in November, while the total cases rose by 12%, data obtained through street-level crime API provided by UK police shows. Thefts from a person i.e. cases where a property is stolen directly from the victim without physical force, doubled in just one month, from October to November. Robberies (offenses where force is used to steal) grew by 34% between January…
“Let’s try a whole year zero waste”. It was Christmas 2016 when Bristolian Charlotte Watkivs, who currently lives in Birmingham, decided to make a change in her life. With her friend, Anna Jackson, they decided to break the habit of throwing things away. From her shopping basket to her toilet cupboard, many little changes were made in an attempt to reduce the use of plastic, paper and food that would otherwise end up in a bin. “It’s about switching from disposable to reusable”, explains Charlotte. “Everything has changed in terms of how I look at it, just to make sure…