A GLAMOROUS former X Factor contestant who taught at a young male offenders’ institute was sacked despite achieving a 100 per cent pass rate from her students, a tribunal has heard.Read
A MIDLAND paramedic accused of using pain-relieving gas to “stupefy” a teenager so he could sexually abuse her has admitted keeping his own store of the substance dishonestly.Read
A BLACK Country mum of five caught stealing £300-worth of foam mattress covers from a store has been placed under supervision for 18 months and ordered to carry out 150 hours’ unpaid work in the community.Read
A SAS soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan was accused of using his anti-interrogation military training to deflect tough questioning over a string of sex charges.Read
METAL thieves have forced a Birmingham church to end its round-the-clock worship after a callous crook made the Sign of the Cross as he helped his accomplice steal a treasured lamp.Read
A FORMER partner of a Midland SAS soldier accused of a string of sex offences told jurors how she ended their relationship over his interest in child pornography.Read
A CROOKED Midland businessman who targeted vulnerable pensioners in a £100,000 burglar alarm scam has been put behind bars for four and a half years.Read
A MAN who killed a business colleague by drenching her in white spirit after finding her in bed with his sister’s husband at the Midland restaurant they were renovating has been jailed for 12 years.Read
Chris is a general news reporter covering the Black Country. His journalism training was carried out near his home town of Carmarthen, in South Wales, where he worked on the Llanelli Star and South Wales Evening Post newspapers.
