Living with Birmingham Rep
Shakespeare and one theatre in particular changed my life, writes Claire Cochrane.
My home on Sandhills Road, Barnt Green, will be 100 years old in...
The Rescuers
Janey Hewitt meets the Barnt Green animal-lovers dedicated to helping the creatures no one else wants.
Barnt Green Horse and Rescue Centre is celebrating its...
Do you find Christmas a panic?
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It’s that time of year again when you have a hundred and more things to do.
Trying to find and buy the turkey and...
The (giant) parish pump
Ian Hayes on an ingenious solution to canal water shortages.
When “Printer” Heming, proprietor and editor of the Redditch Indicator, visited the upper Arrow Valley...
Living the dream
A walk past Alvechurch Marina gave Philippa and Martine the idea of escaping the rat race. Just a few months later, writes Philippa, they had...
Fabulous Fjords step out for charity
Two unusual horses get ready to help emergency teams.
Unless you’re a serious horse-lover, you may never have heard of the Norwegian Fjord. But two of these...
Lucy’s classical pitch
Mark Harrison is impressed by a singer who really can sing. . .
In a world where a teenager miming into a headset microphone is classed...
Over 50: The prime of life
Cast your mind back a few years to the “dotcom” boom at the turn of this century and it’s hard not to think of...
Going with a bang!
How a business that began in a Cofton Hackett back bedroom is changing the face of marketing.
A Cofton Hackett businesswoman has notched up no...
Andrew’s 20-year cruise
Victoria Travel’s boss tells Richard Peach how he went from running a pub to setting up a global business in Barnt Green.
In the quiet...