Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
SOLIHULL MAGISTRATES is sitting through the night to clear a backlog of cases caused by the Birmingham riots. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
POLICE have stepped up the hunt for thugs who wreaked carnage in Birmingham with the release of a further set of CCTV images of suspects. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
HEAVY RAIN and increased police on the streets appear to be preventing a third night of trouble in Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
KIND-hearted Midlanders who have been piecing their broken streets back together after mindless rioting are the “real face” of the region, according to the Bishop of Wolverhampton. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
POLICE were last night continuing to investigate reports of a shooting in Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A crowd of around 200 people tonight gathered on Dudley Road around the area where three friends were killed in Winson Green. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
Prime Minister David Cameron tonight offered his condolences to the families of three men who were killed while trying to protect shops from looters in Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM city centre is once again closing down early for the night amid fears a third night of violence may be about to blight the city. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
Here are a selection of photographs from around the world on Wednesday August 10. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
Three men were mowed down by a car and killed while protecting their community from looters, it was claimed. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
CARSON Yeung’s Hong Kong newspaper the Sing Pao Daily has undergone a major shake-up – raising hopes of new investors ploughing cash into Birmingham City. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
CARSON Yeung’s Hong Kong newspaper the Sing Pao Daily has undergone a major shake-up – raising hopes of new investors ploughing cash into Birmingham City. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A GRIEF-STRICKEN father has told how he desperately fought to save the life of his fatally injured son run over along with two men on the streets of Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A LEADING city councillor has called on candidates bidding to become Birmingham’s first elected mayor to be transparent about their donations and finances. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
TWO voluntary groups which between them lost more than £1 million in council funding this year because of cutbacks have vowed it is business as usual. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
KEVIN Howe – the tough-talking MG Rover chief executive who flew off to sun himself in Florida days before Longbridge went bust – is back in business in the UK. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
MORE than 20 firefighters were called to tackle a blaze in a scrap yard in Birmingham that sent a pall of thick black smoke more than 100 feet in the air. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
Police have re-opened all roads in West Bromwich which had been closed off last night whilst officers tackled disorder in the town and surrounding area. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
West Midlands Police have confirmed the deaths of two men after an incident on Dudley rd, Birmingham. Treating it as murder. One arrest. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
SHOCKED workers arriving in Birmingham city centre spoke of their disgust at the devastation. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
WEST Midlands Police reported sporadic disorder in Wolverhampton which was said to be under control after some shops were broken into. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A TEENAGE mob ripped down a brick wall with their bare hands before hurling the rubble at police as violence erupted in West Bromwich last night. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Children’s Hospital bosses have hit out at “nonsense” circulating on the internet over youths attacking the wards. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
FEARS of attacks on stores and bars in Birmingham spread to the leafy suburbs yesterday. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM felt like a city centre under siege as hundreds of young yobs hell-bent on destruction went on the rampage for a second night. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
olice in the West Midlands made a total of 80 arrests tonight as fresh disturbances saw looting and vehicles set alight in Birmingham, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
YOUTHS who went on the rampage in Birmingham should be spared jail, the city’s education chief urged. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
CHURCH officials urged parents to take responsibility for their children and “stand closer together as a city”. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
POLICE smashed down the doors of suspected rioters just hours after the disturbances in Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
NICK Clegg was forced to cut short a walkabout in Birmingham after jeering crowds surrounded him and told him to “go home”. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM fitness expert is backing a national campaign to encourage cancer survivors into exercise. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM pensioner is taking to the saddle for the second year to help raise vital funds for children with life limiting conditions. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
MEMBERS of an inner-city community group handed out 150 hampers to pensioners wary of leaving their homes during the Birmingham unrest. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
FIND them – that was the plea from police chiefs hunting the thugs who wreaked carnage in Birmingham. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
DEFIANT Brummies launched a fightback against the mob violence that brought destruction to city centre shops. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
SHOCKED workers arriving in Birmingham city centre spoke of their disgust at the devastation. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
The Next West Handsworth Neighbourhood Forum Meeting will be held from 7pm on September 15 at St Augustines Primary School on Avenue Road. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A TOP psychologist branded the teenage Birmingham looters as “trophy hunters” – but predicted their bravado would be their downfall. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM’S biggest cinema is set to lose its IMAX branding – and reopen under a new name as a state-of-the-art digital screen. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM trade union official and political activist, who said he sympathised with rioting yobs, has refused to condemn violence in the city. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
ENVIRONMENTALLY-minded residents in South Birmingham can share their ideas. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
VOLUNTEERS are needed to maintain a Birmingham park clean for all. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A “HIGHLY organised” gang of thieves has been jailed for a total of eight years and 11 months after admitting conspiracy to steal nearly £200,000 worth of fuel from petrol forecourts across the Midlands. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM looter rang up his ex-girlfriend boasting he took a TV and tracksuits for their children. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A ROAD safety communications officer accused of defrauding West Midlands Police has denied receiving a £7,000 ‘backhander’ from a businessman saying the payment was for ‘consultancy work’. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
YOUNGSTERS at a special school raised £750 for Help For Heroes by cycling the same distance a soldier travels from Birmingham to Iraq. Read
Aug 10 2011 | Top Stories
A GYMNAST from Stechford has become the face of the partnership between Coca-Cola and the StreetGames charity by having her picture plastered over a giant billboard. Read