Birmingham is a city renowned for its industrial heritage, its miles of canals and its fabulous shopping - but most of all, perhaps, for its fantastic selection of curry houses. But with the ‘Balti Triangle’ attracting over 20,000 visitors a week, and over 100 balti houses in the city, how do you know which to choose? Here’s our guide to some of the best.

Renting has become an increasingly common form of tenure in the UK. With constrained supply and systemic issues of affordability, more and more households are residing in private rented accommodation, with further concentrations of citizens living either rent free or in social housing.

If you were asked what the most ethnically diverse city in Britain was, you might say London, and the capital certainly is a melting pot of cultures from every corner of the globe, but you would be wrong. The UK’s second city, Birmingham, holds the accolade for being the most diverse city in Britain.

Being the only other city in the UK with over 1 million inhabitants, Birmingham is comfortably the second largest in Britain.

The Jewellery Quarter is definitely the place to be in Birmingham. 19,000 people are packed into just 1.07 square kilometres of space in this pocket of industrial cool just to the north-west of the UK’s second city’s centre.