Month: January 2025

Media focus on Black Sabbath Bench as Ozzy and pals voted ‘Freemen’
29th January 2025 - News / by Tony Collins
TV cameras were panning across the Black Sabbath Bench on Westside this week as the band’s original members were all voted City Freemen....Read more

Crowne Plaza donates 1,500 pillows and piles of bedding for the homeless
- News / by Steve Dyson
One of Birmingham’s longest standing hotels has given away more than 1,500 pillows, hundreds of duvets, mattress toppers and protectors ...Read more

VIDEO: When Ozzy met Ozzy – on ‘Freedom of Westside’ tour
28th January 2025 - News / by Graham Young
Midland artist Ian Morris has taken his new painting of Ozzy Osbourne and Ozzy the Bull on a tour of Westside, meeting the Black Sabbath...Read more

Coaches for Change helping Westside businesses get fit on YouTube
- News / Wellbeing / by Tony Collins
An increasing number of staff employed within the Westside BID area are taking up the offer to join live weekly wellness classes on YouT...Read more

VIDEO: old Paradise Circus car park flattened for new skyscraper
27th January 2025 - News / by Graham Young
The old Paradise Circus car park on the edge of the Westside district has been demolished to make way for a new skyscraper. A fleet o...Read more

FILM REVIEWS: The Brutalist, Flight Risk and Presence
24th January 2025 - Reviews / by Graham Young
BBC Radio serial The Archers picked up a Broad Street Walk of Stars Award back in 2009, a timely honour given that that was the year cas...Read more

Blues ‘supergroup’ to make welcome Henry’s return at Snobs
- News / by Tony Collins
The weather may not be as hot as their last appearance on Westside, but an all-star blues band is certain to turn up the heat again when...Read more

New Ikon exhibition will focus on city’s Muslim community
- News / Reviews / by Tony Collins
A new exhibition exploring Birmingham’s rich Muslim community and some of the issues surrounding it is to open on Westside this spring. ...Read more

How to help the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch on Westside
23rd January 2025 - News / by Graham Young
It’s the world’s largest garden wildlife survey ... and here’s how you can help to make sure that the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2025 is ...Read more