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The UK government has announced a blanket ban on large electronic devices being carried as hand luggage on aircrafts flying in from six countries. The ban will specifically affect flights from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia...

Birmingham St. Mary’s Hospice is encouraging individuals to secure one of its limited edition, expertly crafted flowers to celebrate the lives of their loved ones. The local Hospice has commissioned 1,500 wrought iron flowers as part...

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The 20th annual Asian Business Awards (ABA), which honours outstanding business leaders in the UK, took place tonight in London’s Park Plaza hotel. The night also saw the launch of the 2017 Asian Rich List, which...

A group of six higher education institutions and one college of further education, headed by Kingston University, has been awarded £500,000 by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to help increase the number of...

A European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, allowing employers to ban their workers from wearing any kind of “political, philosophical or religious sign”, will not directly apply to the UK. The ECJ ruled it would not...

British Sikhs have voiced concern over a European court allowing companies to ban staff from wearing religious symbols like the Muslim headscarves and said the ruling puts nearly 300,000 community members in Europe at risk. “We...

Work places can now ban the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign” and must dress within a “neutral dress code”, according to new ruling by the top European Court of Justice (ECJ). Discussions were...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that prescriptions of adrenaline autoinjectors (commonly called ‘epipens’) for children with allergies have increased markedly in the last decade, with nearly four devices a year provided per child....

Construction work has begun on Severn Trent’s £300m Birmingham Resilience Project as main contractor Barhale hosted an official groundbreaking ceremony. Carol Bloor, from Severn Trent, said: “This project is the biggest engineering challenge we have ever...