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Improvements in several areas of Birmingham’s services for children and young people with additional needs and disabilities have been recognised by national inspectors in a report published today. Following a three-week inspection in June 2025 to...

The city council is improving street lighting by upgrading streetlights to energy-efficient LED lighting. This will reduce energy use and carbon emissions, and lower maintenance costs. Work is due to begin imminently, and lamp columns need...

Birmingham City Council’s Trading Standards team, in partnership with West Midlands Police, carried out multiple major enforcement actions under the ongoing Operation Cloud initiative. The initiative targets the sale of illegal and harmful goods across the city....

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in the city to be commended for its greener travel to work schemes. The Trust has a catalogue of initiatives which have led to the...

Carers from across the city are having their art exhibited at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Cllr Mariam Khan views some of the artwork Carers’ Voice is running throughout August in the Industrial Gallery as part of the...

Trams have reached Millennium Point in a successful overnight track test on the first leg of a new tram extension out to Birmingham City FC’s forthcoming 60,000-seater stadium. This first phase of the Eastside extension includes...

In agreement with the Osbourne family the flowers and tributes that have been left on the Black Sabbath Bridge will be moved. Birmingham City Council is working closely with local partners to respectfully gather and preserve...