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Apple is about to kick off an eight-month UK project to improve its Maps service that will see Apple's cars and even backpack-wearing walkers traverse the country. Starting February 21, UK residents will see Apple vehicles driving around the country for the next eight months gathering information as part of the company’s ongoing rebuild of Apple Maps, the company confirmed to iMore on Tuesday. Apple's vehicles will gather information through October 17, and from May 20 through September 11, you’ll also see people wearing…

A City Section winning streak that shows no sign of ending continued on Saturday night in the Open Division championship football game at Valley College. The Birmingham Patriots haven’t lost to a City team since 2017, and when you have the best team and don’t make mistakes, the chance for an upset quickly disappears.“It’s crazy,” junior quarterback Kingston Tisdell said. “Our guys are excited. I’m excited.”Garfield tried to use up clock and make the Patriots work every possession, but the result was a second straight…

The law of Rock ‘n’ Roll is one of diminishing returns with age. The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith are all touring bands with singers who are not really able to hit the heights of their previous 70s and 80s glories and bands whose studio output is way past their best. Not Bruce Springsteen. At 73 years old his live shows are still a thing of legend and his last original studio album, ‘Letter To You’ contained all the hallmarks of everything Springsteen fans have come to expect from him over the past 50…

Sam Smith has said they are cancelling their concerts in Glasgow and Birmingham due to a “vocal cord injury”.The 31-year-old singer, who uses they/them pronouns and is non-binary, was forced to end their Manchester AO Arena show on Wednesday after the fourth song.The tour, which is in support of their fourth studio album, Gloria, was set to play Ovo Hydro in Glasgow on Thursday and Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on Saturday.The dates had been rescheduled in April by Smith due to illness.In an Instagram story to Smith’s…

Air India will introduce 20 additional weekly flights to Birmingham, London, and San Francisco in the next three months as the Tatas-owned airline seeks to strengthen its international presence. With 5 additional flights a week to Birmingham, 9 additional flights to London, and 6 additional flights a week to San Francisco, more than 5,000 additional seats will be offered every week to customers, the carrier said in a release on Friday. The airline’s current schedule of 34 flights every week to the UK will now go up to 48…

“Why does Birmingham exist?” asks historian Richard Vinen of Britain’s perennially overlooked second city. It’s not near a significant river or estuary. It doesn’t sit on a hill, atop bountiful natural resources. Not only is Birmingham 105 miles from the nearest beach, but, writes Vinen, it is also “one of the least walkable cities in Britain”. Its districts are segregated by class, race and income as much as by its notorious road system.But it is in the middle. From the 18th century onwards, people were drawn to…

After eight years, the UK is once again the host of the Commonwealth Games – with the sporting event taking place in the second biggest city in the country and heart of the midlands, Birmingham.  The games will kick off with the Opening Ceremony, which is choreographed by the creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight. After that, there will be 20 different sports with over 5,000 athletes competing.   If you want to tune into the Commonwealth Games, here is everything you need to know. You can also check out how to…

Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck racked up a massive bill at an Indian restaurant in Birmingham, following the actor’s win against ex-wife Amber Heard in the high-profile defamation case. Depp has been in the UK performing concerts with musician Beck, even missing the final day of the trial for a show, when the jury announced the verdict on 1 June. The two recently announced they will be releasing a new album next month. On Sunday (5 June), the pair closed Varanasi restaurant to the public, as they were reportedly joined by 20…

Credit: Emerald Publishing Limited Birmingham City Council is currently consulting on a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to prevent anti-abortion activists from standing outside an abortion clinic in Kings Norton. …