Smoke billowed for miles around Wolverhampton’s Parkside Industrial Estate, in Hickman Avenue, at around 2am yesterday as the fire ravaged the offices of RP Hardware.Read
An body has been found by police searching for missing Pc Bill Barker who was swept away in the river Derwent when a bridge collapsed, Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Graham said today.Read
A BIRMINGHAM man’s sudden death in police custody could possibly have been triggered by officers who restrained him during arrest, an inquest heard.Read
A woman will be sentenced for attempting to murder a Birmingham transvestite who suffered horrific burns when he was set on fire following a row over a missing handbag.Read
Scores of people trapped in their homes by rising flood waters were helped to safety by the emergency services today after torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks.Read
Birmingham’s new £193 million library in Centenary Square is set to be slightly taller than first proposed, in a move likely to reignite claims that the striking modern design risks overshadowing nearby 1930s Baskerville House and the Hall of Memory.Read
A MUSLIM student from Birmingham who was caught with a bladed flagellator used by Shias to ritually scourge themselves has been cleared of possessing it as an offensive weapon.Read
