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Can Karen Carney make Strictly final?

Former Birmingham City footballer is wowing audiences and judges on Strictly Come Dancing.

2 December 2025
Birmingham
Strictly Come Dancing

A man in a blue coat and blue jeans with a small brown dog next to a tree taking a photograph

'There's a weather photograph anywhere you can be proud of'

Damien Walmsley has been a BBC Weather Watcher for a decade.

Birmingham & Black Country
A woman in a black t-shirt with blond hair taking photographs on a canal bridge

'I like to see something different every day'

Lisa Reynolds has been a BBC Weather Watcher for four years.

Birmingham & Black Country
Asylum seeker danced after Rhiannon Whyte's death, jurors told

Video shows alleged killer dancing after victim's death, trial told

Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times in an attack in October 2024

Birmingham & Black Country
A man and woman dressed in a suit and wedding dress and scuba gear, with a dozen other people dressed as wedding guests and equipped with scuba masks and air tanks

Scuba couple tie the knot under water

Adam and Amy Harper meet through their mutual love of scuba diving.

Birmingham & Black Country
BBC reporter David Lumb standing in front of a mobile bin collection point

'The stench is thick in the air'

Birmingham residents say the bin strike has left the city looking like a "Third World country".

Birmingham & Black Country
Sarah Julian kneeling down next to a huge pile of rubbish, pointing towards the middle of the pile

'Furious' Birmingham residents say 'no-one is listening' as rubbish pile grows

BBC reporter Sarah Julian is in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, as a mountain of rubbish containing cat litter and teeth marks continues to build.

Birmingham & Black Country
BBC reporter, Josh Sandiford, on left side. Bins and piles of rubbish on right side

'You can smell the stench': Why rubbish is piling up on Birmingham streets

Refuse workers have been on strike for over a week, leading to bags of rubbish piling up across the city.

Birmingham & Black Country
People queue to get their rubbish in a bin lorry, with police officer in centre

Residents swarm refuse lorry as bin strike bites

Rubbish is piled high on streets in Birmingham after refuse workers went on all-out strike last week.

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Two puppies are wearing orange jackets and swimming in a pool

Police pups practise their doggy paddle

For some of the puppies, it is their first time in the water as they build confidence.

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Three woman are wearing fitness clothes and stretching their legs

Sign language fitness class breaking down barriers

The sessions are improving the mental and physical health of those taking part, organisers say.

Birmingham & Black Country
Man in white pumps, blue jeans, orange tabard and black jacket collecting rubbish with a litter grabber next to a wall covered in graffiti

Alan's daily battle with Digbeth litter

Alan Webb spends his lunch hours on the streets where he lives, filling sacks with rubbish.

Birmingham & Black Country
Jack Reeve's parents Heidi Wells and Chris Reeves travelled to Cheltenham to hear his new voice

Man overcome by new accent ahead of wedding

A young man with cerebral palsy is gifted a new West Midlands accent, ahead of his wedding.

Birmingham & Black Country
Flop the penguin in an adapted baby bouncer with the penguin chick's clawed feet on the floor of a kitchen's tiled room

How Flop the penguin learned to walk

When Flop's mother died and she lost the strength to stand, Dudley Zoo taught her to walk.

Birmingham & Black Country
Composite image of Sir Keir Starmer and BBC Radio WM presenter Kath Stanczyszyn, who is pictured wearing headphones and speaking into a purple microphone

Will there be a Birmingham pub bombings inquiry?

The prime minister is grilled by BBC Radio WM presenter Kath Stanczyszyn on the chances of a public inquiry.

Birmingham & Black Country
Man in blue suit with green tie which has green and blue diagonal stripes. In the foreground is the back of a student's head

Pub bombings: 'These people deserve to be remembered'

BBC presenter Nick Owen talks to Birmingham school pupils about the 1974 pub bombings in the city.

Birmingham & Black Country
A group of women waving Aston Villa flags and singing

Villa fans sing for Champions League glory

Choirs sing the iconic Champions League anthem ahead of Aston Villa's Bayern Munich home game.

Birmingham & Black Country
Masked man holding a sawn-off shotgun about to fire a shot inside the store

CCTV shows gang shooting way into computer store

The gang smash windows with axes and fire shots in the Smethwick store in the footage.

Birmingham & Black Country
People on edge of lake with model yachts on the water

Setting sail with city's model boat lovers

Bournville Radio Sailing and Model Boat Club is staging an open day on Saturday.

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Photo of former West Brom player

Cap honour for footballer killed in World War One

A charity cycle ride through France and Belgium will honour a former West Bromwich Albion player.

Birmingham & Black Country
Betty Cowley who has short blonde hair and stands in front of designs showing the past around The Roundhouse. She wears a multi-coloured scarf above a grey top with a white floral design

Volunteers keen to showcase landmark building

Special tours are being offered around The Roundhouse in Birmingham during the heritage week.

Birmingham & Black Country

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