PUBS and off-licences caught flogging booze to under-age children will be instantly shut down under new powers given to consumer watchdogs in the Midlands.Read
A WEDDING and party catering company in Birmingham has been fined for putting consumers’ lives at risk after inspectors found mouse droppings on dinner plates and a fly flew out of a microwave.Read
A CONTROVERSIAL American self-defence instructor who was set to bring his killing training techniques to Birmingham this week has been banned from Britain by Home Secretary Theresa May.
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PHONY ‘clairvoyants’ are conning vulnerable Midland residents by promising to send them cheques and ‘luck rings’ in return for cash, watchdogs have re-vealed.Read
Ordered a lamb curry? Well you might not get what you bargained for. A consumer watchdog probe has found that kebabs and curries are not always what they promise to be.
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LITTLE Olivia Nordstrum may only be six years old but she is already proving her fashion know-how after winning a competition to design a bag in aid of poorly Birmingham children.Read
AS THE country has plunged back into recession business chiefs in Birmingham have launched an initiative in a bid to rid the city centre of its empty shops.Read
THE owner of a Birmingham shop selling Indian sweets and pakora has been fined hundreds of pounds after mouse droppings were found littered throughout the store.Read
WHEN Birmingham mum-of-two Kathy Wilson discovered she would have to have her leg amputated after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer her world fell apart.Read
ROGUE salesmen claiming to be medical experts are preying on vulnerable people in a bid to flog them so-called medical equipment, Midland consumer watchdogs have warned.Read
Emma McKinney is the Birmingham Mail's Consumer Editor who has previously worked as a Health Correspondent and Features Editor for the Worcester News and Home Affairs Correspondent for the Gloucester Citizen.
