Victorious green belt campaigners in Meriden paused their celebrations to remember four local residents who died before travellers were finally ousted from a nearby camp.Read
A Hednesford man could have stumbled across the next Staffordshire Hoard after finding hundreds of rare Roman coins with his metal detector near Stoke-on-Trent.
Read
The daughter of a 94-year-old Birmingham woman battered in her own bed has made an emotional appeal to the public for help in finding her attacker.Read
Sir Anthony Bamford – the owner of Staffordshire digger giant JCB – has seen his fortune almost double in the last year, according to new research.Read
A SECURITY guard shot five times while working at a Kanye West concert at the NEC told a court how the ordeal had left him psychologically scarred.Read
A man claiming to be one of the Wolves fans who urinated on The Hawthorns pitch after the game against West Brom has described the stunt as a joke which has caused more bother than they expected.
Read
Birmingham City Council has denied it approved the compulsory purchase of a property to pave the way for a development it is accused of having a ‘vested interest’ in.Read
BIRMINGHAM City Council has been fined more than £6,000 for exposing a school caretaker and two workmen to asbestos while they refurbished classrooms.Read
A Birmingham magistrate who has a phobia about foxes got the shock of her life when she woke to find one had crept into her house and onto her bed.Read
Paul Suart is a senior journalist at the Birmingham Mail covering general news and specifically Kings Heath, Billesley and Stirchley. He used to work at the Coventry Telegraph on a series of weekly titles covering central Warwickshire.
