ITV News Central wins big at ITV awards
ITV News Central came away with more awards than any other ITV region in the ITV Regions and Nations News Awards.
Kite Runner Flies into Nottingham
A Birmingham composer has created the music for a stage version of The Kite Runner which has made its European premiere in the Midlands.
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Torvill and Dean on leaving ice show: 'It's not a sad time'
Torvill and Dean, the ice dancing champions who started their career as teenagers at Nottingham Ice Rink, told ITV News's Alison Mackenzie the next series of Dancing on Ice will be their last and it will bring an end to the show's tours as well.
It will mark nine years of the award-winning programme and 30 years since they scored 12 perfect sixes with their Bolero routine at the Sarajevo Olympics.
They said that it is the end of an era but not the end of Torvill and Dean.
VIDEO: Torvill and Dean on Dancing on Ice departure
Christopher Dean and his Dancing on Ice partner explained that 2014 was the right time for them to leave Dancing on Ice. It comes 30 years after their famous bolero dance.
For more details visit ITV Daybreak.
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Torvill and Dean bow out of Dancing on Ice
After eight years on our screens ITV, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean today announced that the 2014 series of Dancing on Ice will be the last.
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said: “Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Bolero and our Olympic Gold medal in Sarajevo and for us, it seemed a fitting time to say goodbye to Dancing on Ice.
"We wanted to go out on a high. We have loved every minute of the eight series and we’re determined to make our final series the best ever."
For more details visit ITV Daybreak.
Read again one of our award-winning articles: Forty facts for forty years of the Spaghetti Junction
Read once more one of the articles that helped us come away with more awards than any other ITV region in the ITV Regions and Nations News Awards.
Watch again Andy Bevan's award winning piece on Spaghetti junction's 40th anniversary
Watch again 'Journalist of the year' Andy Bevan's piece on the 40th anniversary of Spaghetti junction.
Andy picked up the gong at the ITV Regions and Nations News Awards.
ITV News Central wins big at ITV awards
ITV News Central came away with more awards than any other ITV region in the ITV Regions and Nations News Awards.
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Birmingham Opera Company wins top award for opera
Birmingham Opera Company has won the top award in one of the world's most prestigious music competitions.
It was the six hour opera 'Cultural Olympiad' project that scooped the top prize in the best Opera and Music Theatre category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards held in London tonight.
It was a world operatic first, as a string quartet took to the skies to perform in helicopters.
It was part of the London 2012 Festival that the opera company performed Mittwoch aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
It was the first time the long opera, which has a 150 strong cast, was performed in its entirety.
World's largest roller-coaster, full report
The wait is almost over for roller coaster enthusiasts - Alton Towers will open its new £18 million ride called The Smiler on the 23rd May.
With 14 loops to the previous record of 10, it is the largest roller-coaster ever built. Only a dozen people have been on it so far, a slightly reluctant Callum Watkinson was one of them.
Two schoolchildren top UK juvenile dance charts
Many of us love watching dancing shows on the TV but perhaps not so many of us have ventured into the ballroom ourselves. Yet two of the most talented young dancers in the country live right here in the Midlands.
Tom Purdy and Sophie Locke are only 12 years old but have already waltzed their way to the top of the UK juvenile dance charts. Lucy Kapasi reports.
