In spring it can be biting cold at 5am on the Staffordshire Moorlands, but Jarrod regularly gets up in the middle of the night to listening out for changes in bird song in the Coombes Valley Nature Reserve. Sometimes he just shuts his eyes and listen to the stirring sounds of the Dawn Chorus. Jarrod also has concerns about the decline in woodland bird species over the decades and he is working on a natural habitat that will encourage and protect both migrant and local birds in the reserve.
Thanks to funding from Screen West Midlands, BBC Blast reporter Josh is making a short film and it's trickier than he thought being both the writer and the director. Oh, and he's having a bit of a...
Olivia was born in Ghana and talks about the difficulties she faced when she left the west coast of Africa to start a new life in England. She remembers her experiences at school and the problems...
Finding out about his family history has had a big impact on Cedric Barber's life. He's a descendant of Frances Barber, who came to England as a slave.
Nick has been watching England play in the European Cup. He is not impressed. He thinks it's time we reviewed our whole attitude to football; how the players are paid, how they are picked and how...
Although Julie feels very much like she has the best of both worlds, having Chinese parents and being brought up in Britain, she feels she really doesn’t know enough about her Chinese cultural...
Ifty likes revising and has a good balance between studying and relaxing - and rapping. He doesn't think people should get too stressed about exams and let them take over their lives.
Basharat co-ordinates the "Voice of Aston" project. A scheme set up to give the residents of the area a voice allowing them to dispell the common perception of this part of Birmingham.
Bob was moved from his home in London to a series of foster families at the start of the War, when he was 10. While it wasn't always a happy experience, he says he's none the worse for it now.
The Old Grammar School and the Tudor house known as the Saracen's Head in Kings Norton, Birmingham, won the BBC Restoration TV series in 2004. Gus Goodchild and her friends have been keeping a...
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