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ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½-based Minerva, one of the UK’s largest traditional angel investor networks, has teamed up with Aston University and University of Birmingham Enterprise to expand the funding opportunities available to start-up businesses in the West Midlands by launching a network of ‘business angels with insight’ for Birmingham.

Primary school children from three TSSMAT (The Small Schools Multi-Academy Trust) schools from Staffordshire will be building and racing their own Greenpower Formula Goblin electric cars with support from WMG at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. All three schools will compete at a national Greenpower race-day event in June.

Local Government policy makers, business leaders, academics, media figures and other regional partners are coming together for a special event to celebrate the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s many partnerships in Coventry and Warwickshire, and the West Midlands and its impact on the region. Those gathering for the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Chancellor’s Dinner on the evening of Tuesday 20th November, will be presented with some of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s very latest economic impact figures. Those figures will include its almost one billion pound impact on the West Midlands.

Canley Pop-Up Café has won the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Outstanding Active Citizens Fund Project Award.

The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is celebrating Coventry’s latest accolade - European City of Sport.

A new festival coming to Coventry this month is bringing scientists into the local pub.

Pint of Science will take place on 14-16 May and will see more than 30 experts from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and Coventry University talking about their research in pubs and venues around the city.