Local News

    • Council leader resigns in Sandwell after facing vote of no confidence
      Council leader resigns in Sandwell after facing vote of no confidence
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      The Labour leader of Sandwell council has stepped down from his role rather than face a vote of no confidence in March. Cllr Steve Eling’s decision comes…
      Labour politicians row over whether Winston Churchill was a hero or villain
      Labour politicians row over whether Winston Churchill was a hero or villain
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      Black Country Labour MP Ian Austin insisted Winston Churchill was “a real British hero” – after Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell branded Britain’s wartime leader a…
    • Angry parents stage protest over Walsall school closure
      Angry parents stage protest over Walsall school closure
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      Furious parents demonstrated outside Walsall Council demanding more information on the closure of their children’s special school. The worried parents said they have been kept in…
      Century-old allotments in Perry Barr under threat from bulldozers
      Century-old allotments in Perry Barr under threat from bulldozers
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      Allotments which have provided joy to generations of gardeners could be lost under bulldozers as part of the post-Commonwealth Games masterplan for Perry Barr. Campaigners are…
    • Broken CCTV claims denied by chiefs in Dudley
      Broken CCTV claims denied by chiefs in Dudley
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      Dudley Council has denied 40 per cent of CCTV cameras used to fight crime across the area do not work. The claim came in a budget meeting…
      The worrying number of Birmingham pensioners hospitalised by falls every day
      The worrying number of Birmingham pensioners hospitalised by falls every day
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      Nine pensioners a day are being admitted to hospital in and around Birmingham because of falls – and the number is rising. There were 3,420 “finished…
    • Crisis-hit HMP Birmingham set to remain in government control for six more months
      Crisis-hit HMP Birmingham set to remain in government control for six more months
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      Management of Birmingham Prison will remain under government control – for a further SIX MONTHS. It was previously stated by Justice Secretary David Gauke that control…
      Government dismisses 'nonsense' reports it may scrap HS2
      Government dismisses ‘nonsense’ reports it may scrap HS2
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      Claims that the planned HS2 high speed rail line might be scrapped have been dismissed as “complete nonsense” by the Government. And leaders in the North…
    • How universities in Birmingham fail to take students from hard-to-reach areas
      How universities in Birmingham fail to take students from hard-to-reach areas
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      The University of Birmingham is failing to take in students from hard-to-reach areas, new figures show. Data published by the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) shows…
      First look at new secondary school and 400 family homes planned for Perry Barr
      First look at new secondary school and 400 family homes planned for Perry Barr
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      A brand new secondary school and 400 family homes are to go up in Perry Barr as part of the area’s multi-million pound regeneration. The proposals…
    • Teachers set to strike at Solihull school 'over pay and conditions'
      Teachers set to strike at Solihull school ‘over pay and conditions’
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      Teachers are set to walk out in a series of five day strikes at a Solihull school. Union members at Light Hall School, Hathaway Road, said…
      First look at design for long-awaited Kingshurst redevelopment
      First look at design for long-awaited Kingshurst redevelopment
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      Residents are set to have their say on the long-awaited redevelopment of an “outdated” Solihull shopping precinct, which local people are desperate to see replaced. Plans…
    • Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson urges colleagues not to split and form a new party
      Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson urges colleagues not to split and form a new party
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      Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson has urged colleagues not to split and form a rival party. Mr Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, said: “It would…
      Self-harm inside HMP Birmingham soars amid 'national prison scandal'
      Self-harm inside HMP Birmingham soars amid ‘national prison scandal’
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      More than 11 self-harm cases are recorded every week at Birmingham Prison, in what experts are calling “a national scandal”. New Ministry of Justice figures show…

Whats On

    • Soulful Intentions, 16 Feb 2019
      Soulful Intentions, 16 Feb 2019
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      16 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at Camp Inn
      The Dreamettes, 16 Feb 2019
      The Dreamettes, 16 Feb 2019
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      16 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at Coleshill Social Club
    • Rock Brazuca, 16 Feb 2019
      Rock Brazuca, 16 Feb 2019
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      16 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at Dark Horse FREE
      Line Dancing, 15 Feb 2019
      Line Dancing, 15 Feb 2019
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      15 Feb 2019 – Dance at The Shirley Centre
    • Live DJs: Early Doors with Adam Adam, 15 Feb 2019
      Live DJs: Early Doors with Adam Adam, 15 Feb 2019
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      15 Feb 2019 – Club at The Sun on the Hill FREE
      The Beggar's Banquet, 15 Feb 2019
      The Beggar's Banquet, 15 Feb 2019
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      15 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at Tower of Song
    • Literature Study Day: Rumer Godden, 15 Feb 2019
      Literature Study Day: Rumer Godden, 15 Feb 2019
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      15 Feb 2019 – Spoken Word at Birmingham and Midland Institute After establishing a context for approaching the work of a remarkably prolific and once-popular novelist,…
      Notting Hill, 14 Feb 2019
      Notting Hill, 14 Feb 2019
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      14 Feb 2019 – Film at The Mailbox William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when…
    • Community Textiles, 14 Feb 2019
      Community Textiles, 14 Feb 2019
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      14 Feb 2019 – Workshop at The Old Print Works Do you hoard textile scraps for a project you might do one day? Would you prefer…
      Rob Lloyd, 14 Feb 2019
      Rob Lloyd, 14 Feb 2019
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      14 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at The Stag And Three Horseshoes
    • Rai Reed & The Last Rebels, 14 Feb 2019
      Rai Reed & The Last Rebels, 14 Feb 2019
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      14 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at Acapella Join us this Valentine's Day for a live acoustic session from The Last Rebels.
      Forward Thinking: What’s the Studio?, 13 Feb 2019
      Forward Thinking: What’s the Studio?, 13 Feb 2019
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      13 Feb 2019 – Spoken Word at Medicine Bakery Over three evenings join artists showing work in Forward: New Art from Birmingham for an informal group…
    • Nostalgia: 90s Rave, 13 Feb 2019
      Nostalgia: 90s Rave, 13 Feb 2019
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      13 Feb 2019 – Club at Mama Roux's (suitable for under 18s) Nostalgia is back!! We’re kicking off 2019 in serious style with another HUGE 90s…
      Garry Dean, 13 Feb 2019
      Garry Dean, 13 Feb 2019
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      13 Feb 2019 – Rock & Pop at The Austin Sports and Social Club

The Voice UK

    • Chris Hughton’s Brighton reach FA Cup quarter finals
      Chris Hughton’s Brighton reach FA Cup quarter finals
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      Image Text: WEMBLEY BOUND?: Chris Hughton is 90 minutes from a date at the national stadium BRIGHTON’S SPELL of indifferent form has ended with a place…
    • Ravel Morrison makes move to Scandinavia
      Ravel Morrison makes move to Scandinavia
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      Image Text: PICTURED: Ravel Morrison RAVEL MORRISON, the ex-Manchester United and West Ham midfielder being courted by Jamaica, signed with Swedish top-tier club Ostersunds FK for…
    • Gucci's creative director speaks on blackface controversy
      Gucci’s creative director speaks on blackface controversy
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      Image Text: PICTURED: Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele GUCCI’S CREATIVE director has broken his silence following the controversy over a $890 jumper that bares similarity to…
    • Marc Wadsworth to sue Labour Party for race discrimination
      Marc Wadsworth to sue Labour Party for race discrimination
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      Image Text: LANDMARK LEGAL ACTION: Campaigner Marc Wadsworth VETERAN ANTI-racist campaigner Marc Wadsworth has launch his long-awaited legal action against Labour, which expelled him last year…
    • 'Mandela had the ability to make anyone he met feel special'
      ‘Mandela had the ability to make anyone he met feel special’
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      Image Text: ICON: Nelson Mandela “Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in…
    • Kenyans call out Western media over black panther sighting
      Kenyans call out Western media over black panther sighting
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      KENYANS HAVE called out Western media after it was claimed that a black leopard whose images were taken by British wildlife photographer Will Burrad-Lucas, was the…
    • The Voice newspaper February 14, 2019
      The Voice newspaper February 14, 2019
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      Publication cover:  THVO-E01-S2-0214-001.jpg
    • Farm Africa: Growing futures in the Elgeyo Marakwet hills
      Farm Africa: Growing futures in the Elgeyo Marakwet hills
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      Image Text: PICTURED: Lucy Marani and her sons on their bean farm in Elgeyo Marakwet ON AN unbelievably steep hillside in the beautiful rolling hills of…
    • Have faith in finding love
      Have faith in finding love
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      Image Text: PARTNERSHIP: Having support and companionship is important through every step in life FEBRUARY IS the month when people’s minds turn towards love and relationships,…
    • Eric Holder to decide on 2020 presidential bid in few weeks
      Eric Holder to decide on 2020 presidential bid in few weeks
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      Image Text: 2020 ELECTION: Eric Holder has said he will announce if he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination in the next few weeks FORMER US…
    • Study links teenage cannabis use to depression
      Study links teenage cannabis use to depression
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      Image Text: DEPRESSION LINK: Scientists believe they have found evidence of a connection between teenage use of cannabis and the development of depression CANNABIS USE by…
    • Barry Jenkins: "You have to love through pain"
      Barry Jenkins: “You have to love through pain”
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      Image Text: REPUTATION: Barry Jenkins is bringing black love to life on the big screen BARRY JENKINS is in love – with black love. He might…
    • Antigua girls welcomed home after rowing across the Atlantic
      Antigua girls welcomed home after rowing across the Atlantic
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      Image Text: MAKING WAVES: The Island Girls completed one of the world’s toughest rowing challenges NOT HEROES, but “sheroes” – that’s how they hailed the Caribbean…
    • Rapper who was asleep in car shot dead by police
      Rapper who was asleep in car shot dead by police
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      Image Text: PICTURED: Willie McCoy (Image: _williebo_/Instagram) A YOUNG man has been killed by police as he slept in his car in California. Willie McCoy, 20,…

Health News

    • Researchers reveal allergies may be linked to eczema
      Researchers reveal allergies may be linked to eczema
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      (Natural News) Researchers infer that allergy and eczema may go hand in hand, and stress that understanding the connection between the two conditions may mitigate the risk of…
    • How to grow blueberries in pots this summer
      How to grow blueberries in pots this summer
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      (Natural News) You can easily grow this blue superfood in your home. Yes, you read that right. The highly-touted “happy food” can find its own happy…
    • Robert Parry Warns – The New York Times is Cheering on Censorship Algorithms – NaturalNews.com
      Robert Parry Warns – The New York Times is Cheering on Censorship Algorithms – NaturalNews.com
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      A coordinated censorship attack is being waged against the entire independent media by Google, YouTube and Facebook. After we were banned by Google for nearly a…
    • Netflix begins SCIENCE PURGE to remove all genetics education from science videos in order to appease Left-wing "gender fluid" lunatics like Bill Nye
      Netflix begins SCIENCE PURGE to remove all genetics education from science videos in order to appease Left-wing “gender fluid” lunatics like Bill Nye
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      (Natural News) People laughed when I predicted in this Bill Nye story about how he thinks transgenderism is “evolution” that California would begin purging genetics education…
    • Devastating blow to soy processors as Chinese shoppers dump GMOs
      Devastating blow to soy processors as Chinese shoppers dump GMOs
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      (Natural News) Is the GMO soy industry finally feeling the burn? It seems that it is, at least in China. Chinese consumers are pushing back against…
    • Were Neanderthals in California the first Americans? – NaturalNews.com
      Were Neanderthals in California the first Americans? – NaturalNews.com
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      A coordinated censorship attack is being waged against the entire independent media by Google, YouTube and Facebook. After we were banned by Google for nearly a…
    • Hemp food products surged 44% to $129 million in sales despite insane regulations
      Hemp food products surged 44% to $129 million in sales despite insane regulations
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      (Natural News) Hemp is an incredibly versatile plant that is also extremely nutritious.  It’s used to create building materials, automobiles, paper, clothing, jewelry and furniture, but…
    • Consumers now demanding their meat be raised "humanely," without growth hormones or GMOs, according to new study
      Consumers now demanding their meat be raised “humanely,” without growth hormones or GMOs, according to new study
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      (Natural News) Recent polls indicate that over 90 percent of Americans want their food labeled in a way that clearly indicates the presence of genetically modified…
    • Obedient public so brainwashed by climate change propaganda that they now call weather forecasters after every rain storm to demand answers – NaturalNews.com
      Obedient public so brainwashed by climate change propaganda that they now call weather forecasters after every rain storm to demand answers – NaturalNews.com
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      A coordinated censorship attack is being waged against the entire independent media by Google, YouTube and Facebook. After we were banned by Google for nearly a…
    • NPR hosts laugh hysterically while America remains in the cross hairs of a North Korean nuclear warhead EMP apocalypse
      NPR hosts laugh hysterically while America remains in the cross hairs of a North Korean nuclear warhead EMP apocalypse
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      (Natural News) National Public Radio (NPR) has for years been known for its radical leftwing bias, and uninformed commentaries on foreign and defense policy by kooks…
    • Beets Boost Brain Health and Much More
      Beets Boost Brain Health and Much More
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      By Dr. Mercola There’s a lot to be said for the humble beet, an easy-to-grow garden vegetable. Whether juiced raw, cooked, pickled or fermented, beets have…
    • CNN is now offering advice on how to approach your kids about being TRANSGENDER – NaturalNews.com
      CNN is now offering advice on how to approach your kids about being TRANSGENDER – NaturalNews.com
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      A coordinated censorship attack is being waged against the entire independent media by Google, YouTube and Facebook. After we were banned by Google for nearly a…
    • Insulin Resistance and the High-Carb, Low-Fat Diet Connection
      Insulin Resistance and the High-Carb, Low-Fat Diet Connection
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      By Dr. Mercola Dr. Tim Noakes, a well-respected scientist, researcher, physician and professor at the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of…
    • Is your dog or cat autistic? Pet vaccinations could be the cause – NaturalNews.com
      Is your dog or cat autistic? Pet vaccinations could be the cause – NaturalNews.com
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      A coordinated censorship attack is being waged against the entire independent media by Google, YouTube and Facebook. After we were banned by Google for nearly a…