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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2ca2/live/6a46ecc0-9b09-11f1-bb80-c1b1e1adeea5.png”] Sam Divine Nightclub XOYO Birmingham is one of the venues which could be affected by the plans For fans of music and arts in Birmingham, Digbeth is area which inspires a lot of positive feelings as the graffiti-covered old industrial heartland that is home to the city’s main music, nightclub and art…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0c60/live/61cbbe00-a2ec-11f1-a789-b16da4059b6b.jpg”] Claire Howard Claire Howard said extreme day tripping “makes you feel like you have done something kind of incredible” A woman has become hooked on extreme day-tripping, flying to about 50 destinations from Birmingham Airport. An extreme day trip is a travel trend where someone travels to a destination in a different…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a749/live/fc9a9980-9fc5-11f1-b3e7-331c6d9a8046.jpg”] National Trust/Pete Huggins Nicola Heald said the dress could only be displayed for a month because the fabric could be damaged by light A dress designed to welcome in the 20th Century has gone on display for a month at a country house. The Cockleshell Dress was worn by Mary Vere Agar-Robartes,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d0cc/live/7a9e2000-9fbb-11f1-9828-47742d0f1032.jpg”] Torridge District Council Councillor Claire Hodson said the artwork could become “a valued landmark” in the village Artists are being encouraged to put themselves forward for a public art project. Torridge District Council has asked for expressions of interest from people keen to create an original artwork for and about Westward Ho!…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7b3e/live/c2c07f20-a2e2-11f1-a4f5-c3e4a51a2b37.jpg”] BBC Tilly Davies says attending a festival alone “is not as scary as you think” It is the second time Tilly Davies is attending Reading Festival by herself. The 18-year-old, from Northamptonshire, said even though it could get “a bit lonely”, it was possible to make friends and, once you get to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/03c5/live/089499f0-a153-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] @breathpod Stuart Sandeman says breathwork originates from traditional practices like yoga Powerless to help after catastrophic earthquakes struck her hometown of La Guaira in Venezuela two months ago, Maria Medina struggled to sleep. She was more than 1,500 miles away in Florida, USA – where she has lived for the last 15…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1ad8/live/d86c20a0-a31d-11f1-8937-ebc435db1160.jpg”] AFP via Getty Images Latest opinion polls have been so close that the result is impossible to call Icelanders are voting in a referendum to decide whether to resume talks on joining the European Union, 13 years after they were broken off. In an indication of how tight the result is expected…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0ed1/live/17fc92d0-a2f2-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] BBC One evening in early August, farmer Daniel Sizer’s phone buzzed with a message. It was from his local water board and it read: “River levels are low but have recovered enough to allow one night of irrigation tonight.” Like much of the lower half of England, Daniel’s fourth-generation farm had seen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2cb0/live/9d09bab0-a22b-11f1-bd6a-3d72a7f54a3e.jpg”] BBC Dolly Parton first launched Imagination Library in her home county in Tennessee One child in Denver called her “The Book Queen”. Another in Alabama calls her “Ms Dolly”. Across the globe in Australia, a toddler with speech delays delighted her family with her first word – “orange” – after she and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fa12/live/55bbb480-a2d3-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] BBC Holly Ratchford has decided to speak out publicly for the first time Holly Ratchford still cannot believe that the man who moved into the residential complex she once managed would go on to be accused of involvement in the darkest day in recent US history. “It’s almost impossible for me to…