To celebrate International Social Media Week this month there is a pretty nifty event taking place in Coventry.

by Darren Caveney 

The West Midlands used to be just about the best place in the world for designing and making things.

The list of famous and iconic items created in the region is almost endless and pulling together a short piece of research for this post reminded me just how prolific and important the West Midlands used to be.