Simon Evans

Editor
Simon is a former Press Association news wire journalist. He has worked in comms roles for Thames Water, Heathrow, Network Rail and Birmingham Airport.
Culture

Youngsters’ BBC film project

Young West Midlanders have taken part in a scheme seeking to unearth budding script-writing and film storytelling talent. The project was set up

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Culture Environment

Moseley: £2.3m gardens refurb

Highbury Gardens in Moseley is undergoing a £2.3m facelift. Just over £2m of this is funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Grade

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Business News People Video

‘Hired for me, not my CV’

Countless jobseekers are rejected every day by potential employers due to “a lack of relevant experience and qualifications.” A year ago Aneela Sirfraz,

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Business News Leadership

Award for Hotel du Vin 

Hotel du Vin Birmingham has been named “boutique hotel of the year” at the Midlands Food, Drink and Hospitality Awards 2025. Arron Wincott,

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Culture Viewpoint

Glasto antisemitism

Social media has rotted people’s morality A daily social media diet of bad ideas has been killing people’s morality and judgment for around

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Business News People

Rail safety awareness 

West Midlands Railway (WMR)has been spreading the good word about railway safety. It staged pop-up sessions at Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton station

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Business News Politics

‘Virtue-signalling’ Co-op slammed

The UK’s Co-op supermarket chain will lose trade as a result of its “virtue-signalling” move to stop importing products from Israel, a leading

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Business News

Kings Heath: New rail footbridge 

A footbridge has been craned into place on the railway at the new Kings Heath railway station. The pre-fabricated footbridge was carefully lifted

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Defence Viewpoint World Affairs

‘Israel, thank you’

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s repeated calls for Israel and Iran to “de-escalate” reflect a wider ignorance across Britain, not helped by an openly

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Business News Politics

Bromsgrove MP: ‘Improve mobile signal’

Bromsgrove’s mobile phone coverage is “wholly inadequate” and needs urgent improvement, the Worcestershire town’s MP says. Despite Ofcom claiming only 0.01% of Worcestershire

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