Sandwell Council along with HMRC recently inspected a shop in Smethwick where 3,400 packets of illicit tobacco with a retail value of over £40,000 and 228 illegal vapes worth £2,000 were seized. Vaping devices are highly regulated by the government to control the amount of nicotine available and have to be approved by the Medicines …
Visiting the city for Birmingham Tech Week, Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy Damian Collins met with MSc scholarship students and alumni from Birmingham City University (BCU) and University of Birmingham (UoB) at BCU’s new £70m state-of-the-art STEAMhouse innovation campus. The Digital Minister highlighted the successful partnership between the government and BCU and UoB’s …
Minister praises Midlands tech students as part of AI scholarship drive Read More »
Virgin Money has relaunched its innovative financial education programme, Make £5 Grow, with additional tools and resources designed to prepare schoolchildren and provide the skills they need to better manage their finances in the future. Delivered in schools, Make £5 Grow is a free scheme which works with and encourages both younger and older …
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In a ground-breaking national collaboration, 56 Local Authorities across England have worked together to share ideas and jointly fund the creation of a short film to raise awareness of fostering. It is aimed at finding more people who may be interested in becoming foster carers and providing nurturing, positive homes for children and young people …
Launch of ‘Childhood’ – short film to raise awareness of the need for foster carers Read More »
To kick of this season of the Barclays Women’s Super League, it’s a double whammy win for Aston Villa as Rachel Daly wins the season’s first Player of the Month award. Manager of the Month goes to her manager, Carla Ward. Worthy winners Aston Villa went unbeaten in September. After 12 years, Rachel Daly’s return to the WSL was worth the …
To kick of this season of the Barclays Women’s Super League, it’s a double whammy win for Aston Villa as Rachel Daly wins the season’s first Player of the Month award. Manager of the Month goes to her manager, Carla Ward. Worthy winners Aston Villa went unbeaten in September. After 12 years, Rachel Daly’s return to the WSL was worth the …
Deakin & Francis, world-renowned British family jeweller, is proud to launch a new limited-edition pair of cufflinks, now released in gold-plated sterling silver. The cufflinks were designed to help fundraise for the lifesaving pre-hospital emergency care provided by Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. The new gold-plated cufflinks, priced at £275 for each pair, have been …
Commemorating The Lifesaving Gold Standard Of Pre-Hospital Care Read More »
Chef Julian Yeo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting at NYU Stern School of Business. Professionally is a professor of accounting he received a lot of teaching awards. Apart from playing with financial accounting numbers he loves to play with food ingredients in the kitchen and made cooking a hobby. Motivated so much towards …
Cooking is just like Accounting : Professor / Chef Julian Yeo Read More »
A Birmingham City University music student is celebrating today after being crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year 2022, following a ‘stylish and committed’ performance using a wide range of instruments – from marimbas and crotales to kitchen bowls and car brake drums. 18-year-old percussionist Jordan Ashman, who is in the first year of …
The University of Birmingham has loaned an historic painting with a Shakespeare connection to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun led an embassy to London in 1600 to deepen trade and diplomatic links between Britain and Morocco, and may have influenced Shakespeare’s depiction of Othello. A portrait of the …
University loans ‘Othello’s inspiration’ to major US art exhibition Read More »
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