I wasn't quite sure that I'd read this properly at first, but the University of Central England (UCE) has now become Birmingham City University. Shocking. I know that they've been looking at a name change for a while now, but it's now official, and this is what they chose. They've even got a blue logo and everything.

Right, the only thing left for us decent Brummies to do is to petition to get the University of Birmingham (my university) renamed to the Aston Villa University, with all associated claret and blue livery. Who's with me? (Okay, I suppose that Aston University has a headstart on that one, but that would be less fun for me...)