Local News

• Birmingham rat hotspots revealed as city faces 'golden decade' for grim pests

  Some areas of the city rank high in the rat tables with hundreds of complaints and call-outs made

• Pay to pray by owning your very own church

  A branch of the Wesleyan Holiness Church in Cromer Road, Balsall Heath, is up for auction

• The lost restaurant chain of Berni Inns where you could get a steak for £6 and ice cream for 50p

  Just about everybody went to a Berni Inn for a meal, with steaks, prawn cocktails and ice cream sundaes on the menu

• Buses in Birmingham through the years - from 1950s to today

  We take a look back at the buses across the region

• Birmingham in 1954 - how the city looked 70 years ago

  What Birmingham looked like 70 years ago.

• Birmingham engineering student makes £3,000 a month quitting studies for OnlyFans and says 'it's a journey'

  Caramel Baba, from Birmingham, said he was motivated by a 'lack of representation' of gay Asian men in the industry

CITY

• Birmingham City’s promotion rivals complete swift Jonson Clarke-Harris transfer

  One of Birmingham City's rivals for promotion have moved swiftly to complete their first summer signing

• League One free agents: 102 players Birmingham City can sign on the cheap this summer

  Latest Birmingham City news from BirminghamLive includes a long list of players released by third tier clubs

• Troll confronted by Barrington Patterson's wife over cruel jibe says 'I need to be better'

  Tracey Patterson said she confronted the troll to 'educate' him and shared a clip of their encounter online

• Seven whizzkids Birmingham City can blood in League One after relegation

  Birmingham City have lots of young talent bubbling away beneath the first team that could play their part in League One

VILLA

• Premier League VAR update emerges as Wolves drop vote bombshell that could impact Aston Villa

  Wolverhampton Wanderers have tabled a motion to remove VAR from the Premier League from the 2024/25 season onwards

• Aston Villa are in the Champions League - here's how to get your souvenir special

  In response to the sense of excitement engulfing Villa Park, the Birmingham Mail has produced a 48-page bumper edition to celebrate Villa joining Europe's footballling elite

• Troll confronted by Barrington Patterson's wife over cruel jibe says 'I need to be better'

  Tracey Patterson said she confronted the troll to 'educate' him and shared a clip of their encounter online

• I'm an Aston Villa hero – I'd lose thousands at online poker and then rip open my laptop

  While Gabriel Agbonlahor's career was blossoming as he burst onto the scene for Aston Villa, his personal life was blighted by an addiction to online poker which often turned nasty