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Project Solar UK, the nation's leading installer and retailer of solar panels, has conducted research to uncover how residents have traditionally prepared their homes for the winter season.

Highly acclaimed, Walsall-based Gospel singer-songwriter Dalton Kerr is inviting people to join him and The Generation Choir for an uplifting evening of dynamic, live praise and worship on Saturday 25th November 2023, 6pm, at the Handsworth New Testament Church of God, in Lozells, in Birmingham.

With the Rugby Union World Cup reaching its grand final, during this Black History Month and England taking on Tonga in the current Rugby League test, the one name that people are still taking about – especially in the latter code – is Clive Sullivan MBE.

A woman who admitted to neglecting her cat has been banned from keeping cats for five years.

Experts have warned dog owners about harmful Halloween food that may cost them £200 and an emergency visit to the vet.

Full details of Wolverhampton's five Christmas lights switch on events have been revealed.

Best-known for her promotion of the Rastafari culture and History, author and journalist Barbara Makeda Blake-Hannah is also a politician, film maker, festival organiser and cultural consultant.

A project to document the soundscape of three different cities and marry them with real-time musical interpretation reaches stages in Birmingham, Edinburgh and London this month. 

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) today announced a new pilot scheme with Stagecoach Midlands to provide a late-night bus service connecting Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa, Warwick and Coventry.

The Windrush National Organisation will be hosting its second international conference in Birmingham on Friday, 27 October 2023 at the Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre.

Two foster carers from Hull who care for a boy with additional needs have won a prestigious Fostering Excellence Award, recognising their exceptional contributions to foster care.

A scheme to help homeowners whose homes are ‘off the mains gas grid’ make their properties greener, more sustainable and save money on energy bills has been launched in the city.

A three-year-old, fed up with seeing people drop litter on the floor, has been helping clean up his neighbourhood and is hoping his actions inspire others to help keep the borough tidy.

Families looking to (trick or) treat themselves to a great value, fun day out this October should go along to Severn Trent’s spooktacular Halloween Trails!

Described by the court as possessing “an unusual command of 'the tongue that Shakespeare spoke' a felicity of expression, good taste, and intellectual force”, Christian Frederick Cole made History by being England’s first Black barrister after studying at Oxford, where, whilst there, he was the University's first Black scholar.

Space tourism market is estimated to grow by USD 6.96 billion from 2022 to 2027, growing at a CAGR of 14.1%.