After the success of last year’s Family Cycle Day, the event is back for 2009 and has been extended to include five different sites including last year’s venue Sutton Park, Cannon Hill Park and Handsworth Park.

The free Family Cycle Days will include a cycling stunt show and provide people of all ages with the opportunity to have a go on a selection of weird and wonderful bikes. Everyone will also have the chance to take part in an escorted 2km, 5km, or 10km ride around some of Birmingham’s parks.

Even if you don’t have a bike of your own you can still take part, as there will be bikes for cyclists of all ages to hire and take part in one of the escorted routes around the park. The bike hire is free but you will be required to provide some form of identification in order to hire your bike.

Each Family Cycle Day will start at 10am and finish at 4pm. Family Cycle Day will take place at the following parks on the following days:

Saturday 13 June – Cannon Hill Park
Sunday 14 June – Sutton Park
Saturday 20 June – Norman Chamberlain Playing Fields/King Fisher Country Park
Sunday 21 June – Witton Lakes
Sunday 5 July – Handsworth Park

For more information on the Family Cycle Days (which are part of Bike Week 2009), call 0121 464 2012.

Friday 10 July – Sunday 12 July

Britain’s athletes will be striving to impress at this year’s World Championships in Berlin, in the first major test for the athletes in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics. The best of British will go head to head at the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham, in a bid to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin later on in the year.

The event also provides the opportunity to see Gold medallist Christine Ohuorugu competing on home soil.

Prices start from £5 for Friday night and from £10 for Saturday and Sunday. To buy your tickets call 08000 55 60 56 and for event information log onto www.uka.org.uk

Warwickshire County Cricket Club (The Bears) take on the England cricket team at Edgbaston from July 1-3. The match will be the final warm up for England before the npower Ashes series against Australia, which starts on July 30.

For more information about the match please visit www.edgbaston.com or call 0870 062 1902.

England take on India in a three-match test series from July 29 –August 2. The series is being organised by England Hockey in partnership with Birmingham City Council and the University of Birmingham where the matches will be staged.

England’s opponents are currently ranked tenth in the world after missing out on qualification to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the hands of Great Britain.

For more details or to buy tickets please visit www.englandhockey.co.uk/ind or telephone 01628 897500.

19 and 20 September 2009

The GB World Cup Judo returns to the National Indoor Arena (NIA) on the 19 and 20 September.

For the first time, this World Cup will feature both men's and women's competitions. The event forms part of the new world ranking system and so will contribute to 2012 Olympic qualification.

More information is available on www.britishjudo.org.uk