Richard Lutz looks back in langour at the past seven days

West Midlands Railway unveils poems for Shakespeare Line stations.

Richard Lutz checks out how he wandered through another week.

Richard Lutz rummages through the vestiges of the last week

Richard Lutz reviews his past seven days.

Michelle Brasier; a woman obsessed with Brummie accents and coffee.

Dave Woodhall talks to Pete Shoulder, singer with blues rockers the Union.

Donkey Week celebrations for centenarian.

“Maximising your Return on Investment from a Good Idea”

With the age of literary correspondence dying, it seems more important than ever to provide spaces of warmth and comfort in which writers can not only retreat

Two Sandwell community swimming pools to close to help fund Commonwealth Games Aquatics Centre, reports Steve Beauchampe.

"Without Cure Leukaemia my daughter would not be here for Mother’s Day."

Cure Leukaemia campaigning to be put out of business.

50 reasons why the region is a global centre of innovation.

Residents, family, friends, staff and local people were walking on sunshine last weekend as Hoar Cross Nursing Home put on the biggest Summer Fayre in its history.

It's been a varied week for Richard Lutz, from emptying the house of books via walking in the woods to dealing with British Gas.

Young people are often portrayed in the media as being feral creatures up to no good. A Birmingham Press reader offers the alternative, and more common, view of children just enjoying themselves in the holidays.

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a story about power and the inability to compromise.

Richard Lutz reviews his week and barely leaves Edinburgh alive after three days at the city's incessant Festival.

International sports legacy experts will convene at the University of Birmingham this week to discuss the rationale behind hosting global mega-events and their lasting impact.

Olympians Geraint Thomas and Steven Burke attended the Black Country University Technical College’s ‘Accelerate Live’ event last weekend, inspiring students to learn about science and engineering.

A free professorial lecture being delivered at Coventry University on Thursday 31 January 2013 will address the major issues facing the global sport industry in the 21st century.

Olympic hockey star Sally Walton took a festive step forward to help Solihull School’s Parents Association achieve a new fundraising goal.

Wrestling is being dropped from The Olympics. Richard Lutz remembers his high school career

Mittwoch Aus Licht by Stockhausen, a commission for the London 2012 Festival, produced by Birmingham Opera Company last August in a disused Digbeth factory has been shortlisted for the two top awards in the world of opera.

So what do we make of the current copyright regime? Join in the debate at The Ropewalk, 15-20 St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham

In the week that saw British Airways lose a case over someone wishing to wear a crucifix at work, Gordon Harley takes issue with external emblems of belief.

Alan Clawley on the impending closure of Birmingham Central Library in June - but ideas are still being proposed for its future

Dave Woodhall sees Villa win at Wycombe in the Carabao Cup.

Dave Woodhall sees Villa draw with Manchester United.

Joe Costello sees The The at The Halls, Wolverhampton.

A lesson from history.

A late equaliser costs Villa victory over Bournemouth, as Dave Woodhall writes.

Andy Munro watches Blues draw with Northampton Town.

A Good Hope consultant has won international recognition for leading a new treatment study

Richard Lutz goes to The Edge.

New Nature Valley Classic champion crowned world women's tennis number one.

Ticket offers released for the 2020 tennis season.

Sheilagh Matheson takes on the curtain-twitchers as we face Lockdown Week 2.

Watson bids to reach last four of LTA Viking Classic Birmingham.

Two Chinese faces peep out from the front pages of the papers this week: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and activist Ai Weiwei.

Employment and training opportunities for local people.

Part 2: A Surfeit of Leadership.

Richard Lutz peeks into two churches on walks near Birmingham.

CBSO announce pop-up performance at New Street.

Smethwick man raising funds to help charity work.

Richard Lutz queries just who benefits from ever-newer levels of digital technology.

Sheilagh Matheson works in an African community so poor it can’t afford mirrors.

Richard Lutz is repulsed by the government's incompetency and deceit over Covid-19.

Birmingham-born author, freelance horseracing journalist and historian Chris Pitt has a new book out. Steve Beauchampé reviews it.