Month: October 2024

VIDEO: watch the very FIRST rides on this year’s Big Wheel and Star Flyer
31st October 2024 - News / Reviews / by Graham Young
Welcome to this year's Big Wheel and Star Flyer, the most exciting festive rides in the Midlands that will be fully open to the public f...Read more

Remembrance Day event at Brindleyplace on Friday 8 November
- News / by Tony Collins
Workers, residents and visitors to Westside will have the opportunity to join in the UK’s national day of Remembrance on Friday 8 Novemb...Read more

PHOTO SPECIAL: First views from this year’s Big Wheel and Flyer rides in Centenary Square
30th October 2024 - News / Reviews / by Graham Young
Westside BID photographer Graham Young was the first person allowed on preview rides of the Big Wheel and Flyer rides in Centenary Squar...Read more

Jeff Lynne’s ELO announces homecoming gig on Westside during farewell tour
- News / by Tony Collins
Brummie rock legend Jeff Lynne is to make a special Westside appearance as part of a final UK tour of his band ELO. Jeff, the co-foun...Read more

Book on Birmingham clubs, music and 1980s life to be launched on Westside
- News / by Tony Collins
Memories of Birmingham in the 1980s with the likes of Duran Duran, the Rum Runner and the Handsworth Riots are the focus of a new book t...Read more

New sales chief at Westside consultancy
29th October 2024 - News / by Tony Collins
A Broad Street-based consultancy and asset management company has further bolstered its senior team with a key new appointment. Switc...Read more

Black History Month walkers enjoyed the sunshine on Westside
28th October 2024 - News / by Graham Young
If the sun always shines on the righteous, then participants in the Black History Month's ‘Let’s Walk and Learn’ tour through Westside w...Read more

The Stylistics to open Symphony Hall’s winter programme for 2024/25
- News / by Tony Collins
There is no shortage of entertainment at Symphony Hall on Westside over the coming winter to keep visitors hale and hearty. Symphony ...Read more

FILM REVIEWS: VENOM: THE LAST DANCE / THE FRONT ROOM
25th October 2024 - News / Reviews / by Graham Young
After Brummie legend Steven Knight kindly premiered four of his six TV series to date at Cineworld Broad Street, his first Peaky Blinder...Read more