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Councillor claims Solihull Hospital is being treated "like political football"

Solihull man's anger at "soft sentence" for brother's killer

Solihull businessman Rick Cressman has said he is “disgusted” his brother’s killer will not spend the last years of her life sentence behind bars.Read

Thousands join fight to save Solihull maternity services

THOUSANDS have backed a fight to keep complete maternity services in Solihull.Read

Thousands join fight to save Solihull maternity services

THOUSANDS have backed a fight to keep complete maternity services in Solihull.Read

New bar awards aim to cut binge drinking in Solihull

A NEW awards scheme aims to boost the licensed trade and reducealcohol-fuelled crimes in Solihull town centre.Read

Mums hold swine flu parties to help children catch illness

A LEADING childcare website has revealed its members are considering taking their babies to swine flu PARTIES.Read

Knowle man strangled partner to point of unconsciousness

A MAN who grabbed his partner by her throat and strangled her until she passed out after she had attacked him during an argument has escaped being jailed.Read

Man assaults sister with teapot in Smiths Wood

A SOLIHULL man who threw a teapot which hit his sister on the back of the head during an argument in her home has been jailed for nine months.Read

MP fights Solihull maternity service move

THE campaign to protect maternity services in Solihull has reached the House of Commons, after an MP demanded health chiefs scrap plans to transfer pregnant women to Birmingham.Read

Petition strengthens challenge to cuts in maternity service at Solihull Hospital

A CAMPAIGN to stop maternity services being downgraded in Solihull is gathering momentum with a petition gaining thousands of signatures in just four hours.Read

Marston Green man jailed over stun gun

A MAN who was caught with an illegal stun gun and a CS gas canister at his Marston Green home after being arrested for drug offences has been jailed for 15 months.Read

Work about to start on £11m Solihull link to airport

WORK is about to start on a long-awaited £11 million transport project to improve links between Solihull and the region’s biggest airport and exhibition centre.Read

SHOCK tactics to deter smokers in Solihull from lighting up have been hailed a success.

Staff at NHS Smokefree Solihull and HM Revenue and Customs teamed up to warn people that smoking kills, whether it is genuine tobacco or fake cigarettes, which often contain dead insects and rat droppings.Read

Trinity Mirror Midlands announces proposals to close 9 newspapers

Trinity Mirror Midlands today announced proposals for a series of changes across its businesses which include the closure of a number of newspaper titles and offices.Read

Campaigners fight to keep maternity services at Midland hospital

PROTESTORS have launched a campaign to halt a controversial downgrade of maternity services at Solihull Hospital, which could see pregnant women transferred up to 19 miles to give birth.Read

Swine-flu cases top the 1,500 mark in West Midlands

CONFIRMED cases of swine flu in the West Midlands have broken through the 1,500 mark, public health chiefs revealed.Read

Fresh job fears at Jaguar Land Rover after huge losses reported

JAGUAR Land Rover could face more job cuts and plant shutdowns after piling up huge losses of £281 million in just ten months, it has been revealed.Read

DHL workers threaten to strike over Land Rover shift row

NIGHT workers at Land Rover’s giant Lode Lane headquarters are threatening to strike over new Sunday shifts – throwing parts deliveries into chaos.Read

Maternity wards in Solihull ‘face downgrade’

PREGNANT women in Solihull may be transferred to hospitals in Birmingham under controversial proposals to downgrade maternity wards, it emerged today.Read

PREGNANT women in Solihull may be transferred to hospitals in Birmingham under controversial proposals to downgrade maternity wards, it emerged today.

Bosses of Heart of England Foundation Trust have revealed they will no longer allow ‘high risk’ births or any involving premature babies at Solihull Hospital from April next year.Read