Shannen Headley BBC News, West Midlands Phil Mackie BBC Midlands Today BBC Unslightly rubbish piles have become a normal sight on some Birmingham streets Student Theo Charlton just cannot believe the “apocalyptic” piles of rubbish that he has seen outside his student housing in the UK’s second largest city. With the stench of rotting waste...
Wrexham’s first second-tier match for 43 years will be at Southampton on Saturday, 9 August – a day after Birmingham City open the Championship season by hosting Ipswich Town. Leicester City’s return to the second tier begins at home against Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday, 10 August. League One play-off final winners Charlton Athletic mark their...
Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images Residents have had to use mobile waste collections during the strike About 150 people have attended a public meeting calling for the union Unite and Birmingham City Council to resolve the ongoing strike by bin workers. The all-out strike began 13 weeks ago in a dispute over...
There have also been discussions over the sale of future TV rights. The current United Kingdom TV deal, principally held by Sky, expires in 2028. When it is renegotiated, rights for The Hundred will again be sold as a complete package, rather than separated from international and other domestic cricket. International TV rights, seen as...
Against the Falcons at Edgbaston, Hasan removed both David Lloyd and Martin Andersson in the space of four balls in his first over. Brought back to bowl the 17th over, he had Ross Whiteley caught by George Garton for 50 before the same combination removed Alex Thomson for a first-ball duck. It left Ben Aitchison...
Bin worker strikes in Birmingham could last until December, after they voted to continue industrial action in a dispute over pay and jobs, according to union Unite. On-and-off strike action began on 6 January with 12 walkouts planned across four months, and the union began an indefinite all-out strike on 11 March. The union said...
A “thrilled” Wagner was speaking after his hopes for a new 62,000-seat stadium to replace St Andrews took a significant step forward, with government funding for a new tramline to a planned ‘Sports Quarter’ in the east of the city. The club’s owners, US investment firm Knighthead Capital – which Wagner founded – wants to...
Shannen Headley BBC News, West Midlands West Midlands Police Abiyah Yasharahyalah was found to have been severely malnourished A boy who was starved to death and buried in a garden by his parents was “invisible and lost” from the sight of authorities, an independent review said. Abiyah Yasharahyalah, three, died after his parents’ culture and...
Tracey Higgins BBC Midlands Today Aida Fofana BBC News, West Midlands BBC Keeley Knowles works alongside the Offending to Recovery programme and does outreach work with drug users For nearly three decades Keeley Knowles’ life consisted of shoplifting thousands of pounds worth of goods to fuel her heroin addiction. Previously known as “Birmingham’s most prolific...
At Edgbaston, Durham won the toss and took three wickets in the opening 17 balls of the game to set up a comfortable victory. Sam Hain was the only batsman to show for the Bears, making 45 in 28 balls, but New Zealand’s Jimmy Neesham took 3-34 as the hosts were bowled out for 143....
In December 2023, London City Lionesses were bought by Kang, marking the start of a new era for the club. The South Korea-born American investor was inspired to invest in women’s sport after meeting the World Cup-winning US women’s national team in 2019. She has invested more than £40m in rugby and football, including US...
Birmingham narrowly missed out on an immediate return in 2023 but finished fifth last season, with Ross admitting they have struggled to adapt at times to their status as a big fish in the smaller Championship pond. “We’re a bigger scalp,” he says. “And with there being so few teams you can’t lose many games,...
While their financial outlay has been eye-catching, goalkeeper Ryan Allsop – a Birmingham-born lifelong ‘Bluenose’ – says the club’s achievements are down to their work ethic as much as anything. The 32-year-old, whose nomadic career has taken in 14 different destinations, joined his hometown team last summer, seemingly as back-up to Bailey Peacock-Farrell. But he...
Birmingham City striker Lukas Jutkiewicz is to end his playing career at the end of the season. The 36-year-old has made 356 appearances for Blues over the past nine years and scored twice in 25 games this season as they cruised to the League One title. Jutkiewicz will remain with the club in a new...
The Unite union has agreed to attend mediation talks with conciliation service Acas next week to try to settle the ongoing bin strike in Birmingham. It said talks with the city council broke up after 45 minutes on Wednesday but a deal could now be “in touching distance”. The all-out strike by Unite members over...