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University of Warwick researchers are to improve the lives of India’s millions of psychosis sufferers.The National Institute of Health Research’s (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit has awarded the University’s Warwick Medical School £1.5 million (almost USD...

BBC Radio Leeds and West Yorkshire Playhouse are coming together to present Partition – a radio broadcast and live performance of a specially commissioned radio play which will mark the 70th anniversary of the division of India and creation of...

Royal Mail today launches a Special Stamp set to celebrate 10 buildings that represent the renaissance of contemporary architecture in the UK of recent years Library of Birmingham was designed by Francine Houben, of the Dutch...

The West Midlands region will benefit from Birmingham 2022 with venues in Sandwell and Coventry announced today  A new-build Aquatics Centre in Sandwell will be the only new facility for the Birmingham 2022 bid, hosting...

Sitting at the heart of the UK, and standing for the diversity of the Commonwealth, Birmingham is well positioned to attract people to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and to ensure that the benefits of hosting extend...

The London Family Planning Summit was co-hosted by Priti Patel, the Secretary of State for International Development, Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Natalia Kanem, UN Population Fund. The Summit focused on practical measures...

Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police have today launched a Rough Sleepers Task Force to bring key organisations together to address city centre rough sleeping. The task force will tackle the increasing numbers of people...

Charity Action on Hearing Loss (formerly RNID) is inviting people from Britain’s Asian communities who are deaf or have hearing loss or tinnitus to join the charity’s research panel and help influence its work. Panellists will...

Awareness is growing fast for Wakefield based humanitarian charity Penny Appeal, as Chairman Adeem Younis found out last week. Adeem and Penny Appeal staff and volunteers, began the week in Trafalgar Square, joining thousands of others...

Three worlds collide during a racist attack, leaving a Muslim scholar fighting for his life. Now they must face the storm before the calm – and they call it ‘Islamophobia’. You read about the problems, seldom...