Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
The DNA screening of teenagers and men on a Birmingham estate will focus on 360 homes as the hunt for the killer of a taxi driver entered a new phase. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
It seems that nothing will stop football fans watching their beloved team this season – not even the worse recession for more than 100 years. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A drug dealer ran an international cocaine ring from his jail cell in Panama, a court heard yesterday. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A terrified seven-year-old girl made a heart-rending 999 call to report that her mother was being stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A transvestite wept as he described the moment when a woman threw petrol over him at his flat in Birmingham and then turned him into a human fireball. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
Two Birmingham hospitals are bidding to host a revolutionary new treatment that will give cancer patients an advanced form of radiotherapy and fresh hope of survival. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A father has spoken of his grief at the loss of his 10-year-old son who died suddenly on holiday in India. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A Worcester graphic designer is to challenge a Government minister at the next election as leader of the UK’s own Pirate Party, which campaigns to change the laws on sharing films and music over the internet. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
The closure of a Black Country care home which houses nine “frail and distressed” elderly people has been halted by the Court of Appeal. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A “dishonest” NHS medic was struck off yesterday after working at three hospitals while claiming more than £4,000 in sick pay. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
More than 1.5 million images featuring some of the most horrific abuse of children seized by West Midlands detectives in the past year have been destroyed. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
Four people arrested in connection with a warehouse blaze that claimed the lives of four firefighters have been released without charge, police said today. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
The new landmark Library of Birmingham will be ten per cent shorter than planned following complaints that it towered over neighbouring buildings. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
Three soldiers killed in a blast in Afghanistan ahead of this week's elections have been named by the Ministry of Defence. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
More than 130 British families, including many from Warwickshire, are waiting to hear if their relatives' bodies are among those discovered in mass World War I graves in northern France. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
A Black Country man who pocketed at least £3.5 million running a brothel in Birmingham moved his wealth around the world in a desperate bid to hang on to the money, a court heard. Read
Aug 19 2009 | West Midlands News
The operator of an adventure river trip in which a tourist from Worcestershire drowned had no specific safety regulations, a court in New Zealand heard today. Read