Use our map to explore the 15 Green Flag Award winning parks
Fifteen Birmingham parks yesterday won the Green Flag Award, an annual award that recognises the…
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Driving test backlogs puts driving instructors under pressure
Demand for practical driving tests in Birmingham is higher than ever, due to lock-down restrictions. @gettyimages Some 420,000…
Taskforce launched to reduce Birmingham’s ‘shocking’ infant mortality rate
Credit: SeppH/Pixabay Birmingham City Council has launched a taskforce aimed at reducing the city’s infant…
Rise in South Asian drug crime in West Midlands
Credit: Barnie Choudhury By Barnie Choudhury West Midlands Police have arrested more South Asians than…
Exclusive: Birmingham constituencies suffering more economic hardship than anywhere else in the UK
Birmingham has some of the UK’s worst affected areas when it comes to unemployment and…
LISTEN: How Covid-19 has impacted outpatient appointments across England and Wales
The number of outpatient appointments has dropped significantly since the start of the pandemic. Face-to-face…
Online learning: Government sends internet devices for 1 in 20 students in Birmingham
Birmingham has the highest number of internet devices sent out of all local authorities in…
Mental health patients forced to travel ‘hundreds of kilometres’ for treatment, despite government pledge
Lack of local mental health beds leads to patients from the Birmingham and Solihull Mental…
Midlands leads the number of vaccines administered in England
Photo by Lisa Ferdinando With almost half a million vaccines administered, the Midlands are the…
“There is going to be a massive backlog for me” – Birmingham driving instructor on coping with the pandemic halting business
By TOM FAIR and GEORGE WILLOUGHBY Source: The Rider Academy (Via: Unsplash) The number of…