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Deutsche Bank's Hawaiian team takes part in the 2012 Brindleyplace Dragonboat Festival

Birmingham's business community counting down to Brindleyplace Dragonboat Festival

Brindleyplace

Annual Brindleyplace event will raise thousands for Harry Moseley charity

What's on TV tonight: Holby City, Frankie, Nature’s Newborns and Something for Nothing

Film & TV

Chrissie and Sacha sit at the bedside of Rachel, whose last chance at beating cancer is a bone marrow transplant from half-brother Daniel — Our pick of the best shows on the box for Tuesday, June 18 - plus our at a glance soaps round-up

Birmingham Rep sheds light on Tolkien’s playground

JRR Tolkien

Charlotte Goodwin listens to her audio device during a walk around Moseley Bog. — A new Birmingham Rep audio guide is bringing Tolkien’s favourite city haunts to life. Graham Young goes exploring,

Lucky 13 for Black Sabbath as album tops global charts

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - 13 — Birmingham rock band, Black Sabbath have topped the charts across the globe - much to their surprise

Birmingham Conservatoire’s Symphony Orchestra premiere Britten poem

Birmingham Town Hall

Lucky 13 for Black Sabbath as album tops global charts

Black Sabbath

Birmingham rock band, Black Sabbath have topped the charts across the globe - much to their surprise

Black Sabbath album '13' on course to be No.1 in the charts

Birmingham Conservatoire’s Symphony Orchestra premiere Britten poem

Birmingham Town Hall

Dan Nicholls believes music inspiration’s all about location, location

Birmingham

Review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse at LG Arena, Birmingham

LG Arena Birmingham
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Time weighs heavily on Neil Young and his veteran band Crazy Horse these days – but you wouldn’t know it from this blistering gig.

Review: Orchestra of the Swan at Birmingham Town Hall

Review: Bryn Terfel at Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Birmingham Symphony Hall
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Review: Orchestra of the Swan at Birmingham Town Hall

Birmingham Town Hall
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Claire Booth (Prakriti), Gordon Gietz (Ananda) and Dale Duesing as Buddha in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream.

Review: Welsh National Opera at Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome

Richard Bradbury gives his verdict on Wagner's Dream at Birmingham Hippodrome

Bewitching musical Wicked comes to Birmingham

Bewitching musical Wicked comes to Birmingham

Glinda (Gina Beck) and Elphaba (Louise Dearman) in Wicked. — Tickets are about to go on sale for next year’s big Birmingham bewitching musical, so Roz Laws went behind the scenes at Wicked.

Alan Bennett's new play to reopen Birmingham Rep

Frances de la Tour and Linda Bassett in The National Theatre’s production of Alan Bennett’s People — Alan Bennett’s new play is to reopen the Birmingham Rep. He tells Roz Laws about offending the National Trust and life without a computer.

Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of Coppelia

Review: Coppelia, Birmingham Royal Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Royal Ballet
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Richard Edmonds reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of Coppelia at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

Review: A Mad World, My Masters, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon
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John Hopkins (Penitent Brothel) and Ellie Beaven (Mrs Littledick) in A Mad World, My Masters — Rarely-performed 17th century comedy transformed into a 1950s Soho romp

Review: Titus Andronicus at Swan Theatre, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon
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Restaurant manager Anthony Scaroni, Mohini Howard and chef Robert Grzeski.

Digbeth's vegetarian Warehouse Cafe back in business

Digbeth

Birmingham's original vegetarian hotspot The Warehouse Cafe, in Digbeth, returns this weekend.

Hat-trick of awards for Simpsons chefs

Local News

Kristian Curtis and Adam Bennett, of Simpsons, who competed at the Bocuse D'Or in Lyon — Chefs from Simpsons restaurant in Birmingham have claimed a large slice of the honours at one of the culinary industry’s top awards.

Michelin-starred restaurant Turners marked down by hygiene inspectors

Birmingham City Council

Turners restaurant, in Harborne — A Michelin-starred restaurant in Birmingham has been ordered to make “major improvements” to its hygiene standards.

Interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard

What's on TV tonight: Hollywood Me, The Apprentice and Quick Cuts

Film & TV

Our pick of the best shows on the box for Wednesday, June 19 - plus our at a glance soaps round-up

Movie Review: Man of Steel

Entertainment
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Man of Steel Premiere — Henry Cavill is Superman in the latest 'origins reboot' of the classic tale which had it's rain-soaked European premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon in London on Wednesday June 12. See the cast arrive in front of very soggy fans in the video at the end of Graham Young's review

What's on TV tonight: Holby City, Frankie, Nature’s Newborns and Something for Nothing

Film & TV

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