Here are some of the possible highlights at this weekend's Microplus-sponsored national championships in Birmingham

Green light for Amber Anning

In fine form in the United States lately with a 50.57 clocking for 400m indoors, Amber Anning returns to the UK to take on a strong field in a national championships that doubles up as the trials for the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn next month.

Lina Nielsen, fresh from her UK indoor 300m record at the Keely Klassic, is in the entries, plus Emily Newnham, Ama Pipi and Victoria Ohuruogu.

KJT at the double

The world champion and Olympic silver medallist in the heptathlon opened her indoor season recently with a 60m hurdles in Manchester and here, at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, she competes in the sprint hurdles and shot put.

Caudery to step up a notch

Molly Caudery won the world indoor title in Glasgow last year and in 2025 she is aiming for medals at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands and World Indoor Championships in China.

A minor hamstring injury meant she has not started the season in absolutely flying form but she nevertheless vaulted 4.75m in Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf and then 4.73m at the Keely Klassic off a short run-up before bowing out at that height.

She will be looking for more in Birmingham this weekend.

In-form Mills tackles 3000m

George Mills smashed Josh Kerr’s British record with 7:27.92 in France at the start of this month. In Birmingham he faces reigning champion James West and Adam Fogg.

Several cross-country runners such as Tomer Tarragano will surely have been tempted by the English National in Parliament Field this weekend, but they are entered for the indoor champs in Birmingham instead.

Great Scott targets national title No.19

Shot putter Scott Lincoln has been training and competing in Australia this winter and he will hope it lays the foundation for another good year.

In 2022 he won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Then, last year in Rome, he was just outside the medals, in fourth place, at the European Championships.

Only 6cm from a medal in the latter, it was the best British performance in this event since Geoff Capes won European bronze in the same Italian city 50 years earlier.

The 2024 season also saw Lincoln set a PB of 21.31m and he ended his season in style by finishing a fine fifth at the Diamond League in Zurich.

In Birmingham this weekend he will be going for his 19th national title.

Competitive women’s 60m

It will take just over seven seconds to separate the contenders in the women’s 60m final this weekend. It could be a blanket finish, too, with a number of potential medallists.

Joy Eze is the fastest Brit on paper so far this year with 7.19 but sprints veteran Bianca Williams has run a PB of 7.20 and reigning champion Amy Hunt has clocked 7.22 and won at the Keely Klassic last weekend from Mabel Akande.

Former champion Cheyanne Evans-Gray cannot be ruled out either.

Men’s metric mile clash

The men’s 1500m has a mouthwatering list of entries but will they all race? Elliot Giles appears most likely to compete as he enjoyed victory in a race in Torun a few days ago. Neil Gourley has been busy racing in the United States lately and is also due to run here.

Piers Copeland will surely want to return to defend the title he won ahead of Callum Elson last year, with both men on the entries.

Fresh from a PB of 3:35.12, Tom Keen is also due to run. But most intriguingly Keen's training partner, Jake Wightman, is also down to compete despite a knee injury scuppering his plans to race in Boston recently.

Courtney-Bryant vs Laura Muir

Melissa Courtney-Bryant gave Laura Muir’s UK indoor 3000m record a scare recently when she ran 8:28.69 to win in Boston. But Courtney-Bryant then pulled out of the Millrose Games with injury.

If she races in Birmingham she could face Muir, plus Hannah Nuttall and rising star Innes FitzGerald, the latter of whom smashed the European under-20 record recently with 8:40.05.

Fincham Dukes’ progress continues

Jacob Fincham-Dukes is surely on the cusp of becoming a major medallist. At the European Championships last year he was fourth, followed by fifth place in the Olympics. Of course there was the infamous incident at the 2022 European Championships as well when he thought he’d won silver and went on a lap of honour, only to slide down to fifth after a French protest claimed his best jump was a foul.

This year he leads the UK rankings with 8.18m set at altitude in Albuquerque and he will be aiming to make the podium at the European Indoor Champs if he’s selected.

Hunter Bell making up for lost time

After missing a chunk of her athletics career in her 20s, Georgia Hunter Bell is playing catch-up in style. Last year she won Olympic 1500m bronze and broke the UK record in the process. This winter, after a slow start in Boston, she won the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games and then, last weekend, narrowly missed the UK 1500m record at the Keely Klassic with 4:00.63.

This weekend she is entered for the 1500m again where opposition includes Revee Walcott-Nolan and Katie Snowden.