Updated 9:31pm 22 May 2012

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Jasbir Authi

Jasbir Authi

West Bromwich garden designers shine at Chelsea Flower Show

Garden designers from the Midlands have been honoured at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.Read

Hotel move a real boon for Birmingham's beer hunters

The beer may have been flowing but empty pub talk it wasn’t.Read

No party to mark Birmingham City's promotion

Birmingham City Football Club has announced it will not be holding a celebration after the team was promoted back into the Premiership - because they did not win the Championship.Read

16 arrested after police target criminal drivers

Hundreds of police officers from four forces were involved in a massive operation to catch criminal drivers yesterday.Read

Fifty given medical treatment after gas leak at swimming pool

Nearly 50 people, the majority children, have been treated by paramedics after a chlorine gas leak at a Black Country swimming pool.Read

Malnutrition deaths on the rise in UK hospitals

More than 400 people have starved to death in the West Midlands in the last decade, it has been revealed.Read

Union warns fire control rooms merger will put lives at risk

Plans to merge fire control rooms in the West Midlands will put lives at risk, the Fire Brigade Union has warned.Read

Swimmers hospitalised after chemical leak at Black Country pool

Nearly a dozen swimmers, mainly children, were taken to hospital after a chemical leak at a Black Country swimming pool.Read

Rabbits set up home at Holloway Circus roundabout

A pair of Easter bunnies are dicing with death after setting up home on one of the busiest roundabouts in Birmingham.Read

Lorry pile-up on M6 causes massive delays

A serious crash involving half a dozen lorries brought chaos to one of the busiest stretches of the M6 near Birmingham today.Read

Man dies in fall from Rotunda in Birmingham

Birmingham shoppers watched in horror as a man fell from the roof of the Rotunda today.Read

Rare misprint US airmail stamp to be auctioned in Warwickshire

The 1918 US airmail stamp depicts the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aeroplane flying upside down.Read

Birmingham’s children’s services face big staffing shortage

The huge scale of the staffing problems facing Birmingham’s social services has been revealed after new figures showed about one in four posts in the children’s services department was vacant.Read

Man badly injured by bull at Solihull farm

A man was seriously injured when he was attacked by a bullock at a farm in Solihull.Read

Midland cathedrals to get repair grants from English Heritage

Some of the Midlands' decaying cathedrals will receive a new lease of life after a grant for repairs was announced by English Heritage.Read

Worcestershire and Warwickshire will see flood benefits

A multi-million pound package to help counties hit by the 2007 flood was unveiled yesterday.Read

Wolverhampton man awaits news from friend in city of terror

Midlander’s fears after killing spreeRead

Midlands academic points to religious motive for Mumbai attacks

Religion at the heart of horror attack – expertRead

Twenty West Midlands streets where the property crash has yet to visit

Streets still paved withRead

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Jasbir Authi covers central Birmingham and is a general news and court reporter. Her journalism training was carried out here in the city at the Sunday Mercury and Birmingham Mail newspapers.