What’s happening where and when
Christmas Market Returns to Birmingham
28 August 2008Birmingham’s world-famous Frankfurt Christmas Market will return to the city for an eighth consecutive year this November, with more than two million visitors expected to enjoy the festive fun...... Continue reading
Celebrate The Best Of The British Music Scene With Ben Sherman
27 August 2008Ben Sherman presents ‘The Big British Sound: Best of the Festivals’ – four gigs, four cities, and a hand-picked line up of the most talented, rising musicians offer you the chance to...... Continue reading
Coventry Transport Museum awarded £150,000 grant towards new gallery
27 August 2008Coventry Transport Museum has been awarded £150,000 towards creating a new gallery focusing on ‘The 1980s to Now’. Thirty one museums and galleries in England have received grants...... Continue reading
Museum Wins Grant for Birmingham History Gallery
26 August 2008It was announced today that Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has been awarded the highest grant in this year’s DCMS(Department for Culture Media and Sport)/Wolfson Foundation Museums &...... Continue reading
Runners Attempt Half Marathon in Victoria Square
26 August 2008To help raise awareness of the first ever EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon, which will be staged in Birmingham city centre on Sunday 26 October, staff members from Up & Running on Temple...... Continue reading
Birmingham’s Filini Bar & Restaurant Shortlisted For National Award
22 August 2008Filini Bar & Restaurant at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Birmingham has been shortlisted for the equivalent of the hotel Oscars in this year’s Catey Awards, run by Caterer & Hotelkeeper...... Continue reading
Darts Returns To The Ricoh Arena, Coventry
21 August 2008The Ricoh Arena will host the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts for a second successive year in 2009.
The tournament, featuring the world's best eight darts stars battling for a...... Continue reading
Young Leaders or Green Saviours
21 August 2008Are the next generation of business leaders capable of effecting real change to the green agenda? Birmingham City University certainly thinks so and has created a new event - The Big Debate to empower...... Continue reading
Boulton lights up Soho House once more
20 August 2008Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery has purchased two extremely rare Matthew Boulton Argand lamps for Soho House Museum in Handsworth.
Boulton helped manufacture the oil lamps for Swiss inventor...... Continue reading
Thomas The Tank Engine™ On Track To Break World Record
19 August 2008Drayton Manor Theme Park is set to host a world record attempt to create the world’s longest train set. The
record-breaking TOMY Thomas Track Master train set will be unveiled on
Thursday 28th...... Continue reading
Prize money announced for the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon
19 August 2008Organisers of the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon have announced the prize money which is up for grabs at the event, which will be staged on Sunday 26 October.The first male and first female...... Continue reading
Record Christmas Bookings Just ‘Wizzard’!
18 August 2008Jam House Operations Director John Bunce ‘wishes it could be Christmas every day’ after celebrating unprecedented advance bookings with the help of Birmingham rock legend Roy Wood.The...... Continue reading
What's On at Thinktank and IMAX Cinema September to December 2008
18 August 2008In recent years, people in the Midlands have experienced all sorts of
bizarre weather, from flash floods in the height of summer to
window-shattering tornadoes. This autumn, Thinktank,...... Continue reading
A Fantastique Debut
15 August 2008Andris Nelsons will set the pulses racing by conducting Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and two other youthful orchestral pieces in his debut concert as the music director of the City of Birmingham...... Continue reading
£28 Million Revamp of The NEC Arena Moves a Step Closer
15 August 2008A £28million revamp of Birmingham’s NEC Arena has moved a step closer after planning permission was approved by the local authority.Planning officials from Solihull Metropolitan Borough...... Continue reading
Ryanair Delivers More Guaranteed Lowest Fares - 5 Million Sept and October Seats For Just £10*
14 August 2008Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (Thursday, 14th August 2008) stepped up its LOWEST fare seat sale as it released 5 MILLION seats for travel in September and October for just...... Continue reading
The Spirit of the Beijing Olympics comes to Cadbury World
14 August 2008The latest event in 2008 to come to Birmingham’s leading attraction Cadbury World will be the Olympics, which will be hosted from Monday 18th to the 24th August. This joint venture with...... Continue reading
Octopuses Have Six Arms and Two Legs…Survey Suggests
13 August 2008Freddie the common octopus at the National Sea Life Centre has helped marine experts make a remarkable discovery.Octopuses regularly use all their tentacles bar the rearmost pair when gripping and...... Continue reading
Birmingham City Council Announces Library of Birmingham Architect
05 August 2008Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council, today revealed Mecanoo as the architect chosen to design Birmingham’s new library, integrated with Birmingham Repertory Theatre (The REP), in...... Continue reading
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