A police officer working in a child abuse unit was tonight charged with causing or inciting a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity, police said.Read
The man at the centre of Birmingham’s “bomb car” scare was snatched off a Moseley street and beaten before being bundled into a car and warned he had been wired to explosives.Read
Police have re-appealed for information to help track down the killer of a Bromsgrove father stabbed to death while his young son was in the house.Read
Detectives investigating the kidnap of a man who was tied up in an abandoned car and told he was connected to a bomb said today that the incident was not gang-related.Read
ASTON Villa manager Martin O’Neill today accepted a formal apology and “substantial” damages at London’s High Court after a football website branded him a liar over comments made during last summer’s transfer speculation linking club captain Gareth Barry to Liverpool.Read
DOZENS of jobs are to be axed at Birmingham International Airport following a fall in passenger numbers in the wake of the economic downturn, it was revealed today.Read
A MAN has died more than five months after he was attacked trying to break up a brawl following a fund-raising event for murder victim Lee Wellard, it emerged today.Read
The pub where dad of two Tracy McConnell died following a brawl will get a new name and family friendly new image, a licensing committee has been told.Read
Birmingham Prison is set to be taken over, after a highly critical report by official inspectors warned that management was poor and prisoners felt unsafe.Read
WEST Midlands Fire Service has officially unveiled its new state-of-the-art Birmingham headquarters from where rescue operations across the region are directed.Read
WARWICKSHIRE County Cricket Club today dismissed fears that it intends to stage pop concerts if it wins permission for floodlighting at its Edgbaston ground.Read
I READ a while ago how the effect of being made redundant to someone who has really never experienced it before is similar to the five stages of grief people are said to suffer after a bereavement.Read
A GRIEVING Birmingham widow who battled for years to prove her husband suffered a painful death from asbestos-related lung cancer due to his job at a building firm has won a six-figure payout.Read
LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the past 20 years had been characterised by a neglect of the manufacturing sector and with putting “all the eggs in one basket” in the South-east.Read
A BIRMINGHAM MP today blasted the city council as “stupid” after its workers were ordered to sprinkle soil across a sunken grass verge repeatedly damaged by heavy vehicles.Read
STUDENTS in the West Midlands are “very concerned” at their lack of job prospects after graduation as the current economic climate continues to worsen, a new poll has revealed.Read
