Birmingham

Sat in the heart of England, Birmingham is the maverick step-sister to the country’s other cities. With modern landmark buildings like the Selfridges luxury department store and fu[...]

VisitEngland’s Katie Rowe recommends three loved-up breaks in some of England’s buzzing cultural hotspots… A decadent affair in London There’s nowhere quite like London for h[...]

London Cocktail Week, 8 – 14 October  Raise a glass to London’s bubbling cocktail culture with a week of cosmopolitans, caipirinis and caucasians as the Dude would say …hiccu[...]

Blackpool Illuminations centenary celebrations , 31 August to 4 November Believe it or not, Blackpool has been getting all dressed up for winter for 100 years now. And this year wi[...]

In 2008, Leon Jackson won the X Factor and that infamous one million pound contract. Poor Leon never really had a chance, what with Mr Cowell hoping that runner up Rhydian had won.[...]

Ikon, Birmingham’s main contemporary art gallery, has revealed it’s exhibitions for the early part of summer. MadeIn is a new artists’ collective founded by Xu Zh[...]

It's that time of the year again, when we love nothing more than a trip to the Birmingham Mailbox. This unique little place sits on the canal-side and offers a whole host of high-e[...]

I have put together a list of the coolest experiences, shows and fun things that are going down in the Midlands this month.[...]

If you want to get more out of Birmingham, there's a great bunch of Apps you can download for your iPhone.[...]

The Midlands Art Centre reopens this weekend after £15m of works with a fantastic line-up of film, music, theatre and dance. We didn't realise how much we'd missed it. [...]

Next week, and for the next month, Birmingham will be taken over by International Dance Festival Birmingham. The programme mixes the crowd-pleasing with the controversial, taking i[...]

If you're a fan of live comedy, times have changed. You no longer have to trek down to London's Leicester Square to go to the Comedy Store to see the cream of the UK's stand up co[...]