The head of a development firm working on the controversial Long Marston "eco-town" scheme said he sympathises with hundreds of protesters opposing the plans.Read
Parents are to be given new powers to check with police whether people given regular unsupervised access to their children have convictions for paedophile offences, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said yesterday.Read
West Midlands Police have admitted failing to fully investigate the Catholic church over a series of alleged child abuse attacks by a priest in the 1970s and 80s.Read
Sir Richard Knowles, the man credited with leading Birmingham out of its failing industrial past to become a successful, modern global city, has died.Read
