Three Worcestershire prisons - HMPs Blakenhurst, Brockhill and Hewell Grange - are to merge in a move to save money and improve “efficiency and effectiveness”.Read
The owner of Aston Villa football club, Randy Lerner, has given £5 million to the National Portrait Gallery, the institution’s largest single donation to date.Read
NANJING gave a cast-iron guarantee to Birmingham's council leader that full-scale production at Longbridge would launch by the end of March, it emerged today.Read
FUNDING for flood defences in the West Midlands could be cut by £5 million, it emerged today, as householders in Worcestershire remain on alert for rising waters.Read
MERIDEN MP Caroline Spelman has demanded a new probe into the death of a dad who suffered a heart attack after being given the wrong drug at a Birmingham hospital.Read
GOLDEN hearted fishmonger Dave McLean is inspiring an entire Birmingham community to help youngsters struggling in poverty on the other side of the world.Read
HEATH Ledger will be seen in the latest Batman epic this summer - a role tipped to cement his status in Hollywood but which will now be his epitaph.Read
THIEVES have stolen hundreds of pounds in cash that an elderly cancer patient, from Bordesley Green, given just months to live had set aside for his funeral.Read
A Northfield mother-of-five plundered almost £5,000 from an account belonging to her war veteran grandfather and then "frittered it away," a court heard.Read
A WOMAN from Botswana was subjected to a horrifying ordeal when she was gang-raped after being invited to a party in Birmingham, the City's Crown Court was told.Read
