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Graeme Brown

Graeme Brown is the Editor, New Audience at Birmingham Live

Search for face of Custard Factory as it launches YouTube channel
Custard Factory
Custard Factory is looking for two presenters who will have the opportunity to work alongside a number of production companies based in Birmingham
Pictures: Simpsons restaurant extended in biggest refurb in a decade
Restaurants
The Edgbaston restaurant retained its Michelin star when the guide was published last week, along with newcomer Carters of Moseley
Citizen Khan star Adil Ray to present Birmingham Post Business Awards
Birmingham Post Business Awards
The Birmingham-born star will take charge of proceedings at the event at the ICC on November 12
Birmingham then and now images show city's drastic changes
Colmore Row
In the final of a four-part series, images of Needless Alley, Colmore Row and Sutton Coldfield get the blended treatment
£10k of cycling infrastructure improvements at Innovation Birmingham
Enterprise
Creative sector hub secures funding from Birmingham City Council's Cycle Revolution scheme
Time-lapse video: See giant NatWest Tower crane erected
Colmore Row
A time-lapse video shows the painstaking work to put up the towering structure ahead of the development of the 103 Colmore Row building
New Birmingham eye clinic to open after £2m investment
Birmingham city centre
Optical Express has opened a state-of-the-art, 7,000 sq ft, clinic on 31 Temple Street
M&B calls time on chief executive after profit warning
Economic Development
Alistair Darby will leave the group this weekend with a year's salary of £543,500 as a payout, but is unlikely to receive an annual bonus
Edgbaston urban village plans edge closer with new proposals
Birmingham City Council
Calthorpe Estates has submitted a host of plans to create new retail sites on Greenfield Crescent as part of a wider vision to create a village centre
Wine merchant Connolly’s agrees new PR deal
Birmingham city centre
The company, which has shops in the city centre and Solihull, has agreed a short-term deal with former food and drink writer Paul Fulford
Nuns behind Call The Midwife put Birmingham convent up for sale
CP Bigwood
The hit BBC1 show was inspired by sisters from the Community of St. John the Divine in Alum Rock during their time in London in the 1950s
HS2 under fire in heated House of Lords debate
High Speed 2
Peers clashed over the project, which has become integral into Birmingham’s regneration plans, with one calling for an independent review
Rents soar to new high in West Midlands
Economic Development
It now costs an average of £586 a month to rent a home in the region – a new high, despite a country-wide fall last month
Six-year battle over Anne Hathaway’s Cottage comes to head at meeting
Stratford-upon-Avon
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has spent more than £100,000 over more than six years fighting plans to develop next to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon
Strip club Medusa to move to Birmingham's gay village
Southside
An application has been made to move the gentlemen's club to the former home of gay venue Route 2 in Hurst Street
Midland removals firm boss lays bare Calais nightmares
Transport
Gary Burke, managing director of Burke Bros Moving Group, said there was a rising tide of concern over security at the French border amid the refugee crisis
Third Birmingham Post golf challenge goes with a swing
Post People
More than 50 golfers from businesses around the West Midlands teed off at Warwickshire​ Golf and Country Club for the third Birmingham Post Autumn Pairs Challenge, in association with Turkish Airlines.
Adam Stokes sets sights on second Michelin star at new Adam's restaurant
Restaurants
Head of Business Graeme Brown chats to the founder of Adam's as works begins on one of the most long-awaited restaurant openings in recent memory in Birmingham
Engineering firm THDA finds new Jewellery Quarter home
Jewellery Quarter
Company has agreed a deal with Bond Wolfe to take just under 2,000 sq ft of office space at 40 St Paul's Square development
Carters of Moseley awarded Birmingham's fifth Michelin star
Moseley
Restaurant run by couple Brad Carter and Holly Jackson wins prestigious recognition five years after launching Birmingham suburb
West Midlands unemployment plummets despite º£½ÇÊÓƵ-wide rise
Economy
The region’s fall in joblessness, which brought the unemployment rate down to 5.7 per cent, came as the country-wide figures rose by 10,000
Open University to close Birmingham office with loss of 55 jobs
Education
Unions have threatened strike action after the distance-learning educator confirmed its Harborne office was to shut
How your West Midlands home earns almost half as much as you
Housing
Value of a typical home in the region has increased by £10,000 across the year according to new data from the Office for National Statistics
Chamberlain Square plans draw a downcast response
Chamberlain Square
Commentators dub CGIs of plans for the first phase of the Paradise scheme 'bland' after they go on show