Museum slaps trigger warning on Janet and John children's book over 'outdated views' ⊖
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The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley cautioned that the novel, which was first published in 1949, included 'negative descriptions of people or cultures'.
5 days ago
‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall ⊕
Paths You Take is a show that finds beauty in images of alienation as Billy Dosanjh turns his lens on race, identity, empire – and the men who kept the furnaces glowing
It was bitter in Walsall that w…
75 days ago
From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres ⊕
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After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’
A cast of unknowns…
77 days ago
I thought my cuckoo clock was amazing, but it’s got nothing on my statue of Bert the cheery chef | Adrian Chiles ⊕⊕
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Installed in my home, Bert is a conversation starter like no other. It usually begins with: ‘What on earth is that thing?’
I came across something that makes me happy every day. It’s a figurine of a c…
86 days ago
‘Very damaging’: how the Iran war is hitting energy-intensive industries ⊖
Conflict pushes companies struggling with rising costs in sectors such as steel and chemicals to the edge
In its 160-year history, Somers Forge’s furnaces in the Black Country have cast steel columns …
4 months ago
Things reek, stink and pong – but why are there no verbs for describing a delightful odour? | Adrian Chiles ⊕
We don’t have a single verb to express smelling something nice. Welsh and Croatian, by contrast, are never caught short when something fragrant gets right up your nose
I remember the first time I reme…
6 months ago
The best graphic novels of 2025 ⊕⊕
Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined
Many of 2025’s best graphic novels looked to the past with mixed emotions. Growing up i…
Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs? | Adrian Chiles ⊕⊕
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It can feel wrong to encourage young people to shoot for the stars – yet if no one did, our world would be empty of the artists, actors, athletes and visionaries who give it so much pleasure and mean…
7 months ago
Former Wolves boss is shock contender to replace sacked Vitor Pereira, with Ruben Amorim's Sporting Lisbon replacement also in the frame ⊖
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The Black Country club parted ways with Vitor Pereira, 57, this morning following a dismal start the season.
10 months ago
For a Brummie like me, Ozzy Osbourne’s voice mattered | Adrian Chiles ○
Unlike other rock stars of the 70s and 80s, Osbourne talked like a bloke from Birmingham should talk. The teenage me loved it
In the olden days, you could listen over and again to your musical heroes …