A Stafford-based police officer who worked in a child abuse investigation unit has appeared in court charged with causing or inciting a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.Read
Birmingham-based van company LDV, which has a history stretching back more than 100 years, is close to becoming the highest profile casualty of the recession.Read
HUNDREDS of cannabis plants worth thousands of pounds were seized by police who raided an illicit drug production “factory” above a Birmingham pub.Read
A Birmingham hospital is vaccinating its nurses and calling up reservists to be on standby as the region braces itself for a potential swine flu outbreak.Read
Upmarket bar chain Bar Room Bar has collapsed, two years after it was set up in a high-profile £20 million deal by a pair of Birmingham entrepreneurs.Read
The sister of a Birmingham soldier who was gunned down at a Northern Ireland army base has demanded an apology amid claims the base was on high alert weeks beforehand.Read
Nursery children at a Solihull primary school are not being offered vaccinations against hepatitis A despite four infant school pupils being diagnosed with the virus.Read
A Birmingham Labour MP has demanded a rethink of selection rules which gave grass-roots members a short-list of one candidate for a council by-election.Read
AROUND 7,000 UK jobs were today hanging by a thread after the directors of cash-stricken Birmingham-based LDV finally applied for administration following months of agony for workers.Read
NURSERY children at a Midland primary school are not being offered vaccinations against hepatitis A, despite four infant school pupils being diagnosed with the virus.Read
A BIRMINGHAM City Council cabinet member, fighting to clear his name after a top election official found he had lodged “scurrilous” accusations against a political rival, faces a fresh delay before his case can be heard.Read
POLICE today urged witnesses to “do the right thing” and help catch the killer of a family man who died more than five months after he was attacked trying to break up a brawl.Read
BIRMINGHAM Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne, the Cabinet Office Minister whose constituency includes the LDV plant, said he believed the firm could still be saved.Read
‘KEEP Right On To The End Of The Road’ was the message as unemployed people enjoyed the VIP treatment watching Birmingham City battle for Premier League status.Read
BIRMINGHAM Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne, the Cabinet Office Minister whose constituency includes the LDV plant, said he believed the firm could still be saved.Read
BIRMINGHAM’S new £15 million coach station is on track for a November opening after the city’s Lord Mayor took part in a traditional topping- out ceremony.Read
CUSTOMERS at a Birmingham pub will be able to drink in the garden until the early hours after a resident failed to support an objection about noise.Read
‘KEEP Right On To The End Of The Road’ was the message as unemployed people enjoyed the VIP treatment watching Birmingham City battle for Premier League status.Read
