The long-term future of the rural West Midlands is in jeopardy because so many young people are being priced out of living in the countryside, the Government has been warned.Read
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has given his backing the politician and an official at the centre of criticism over the Khyra Ishaq scandal.Read
Two men from Birmingham, who were part of a gang which stole the identities of dead babies and then plundered bank accounts set up in their name, have been jailed.Read
A Tamworth man who stabbed his wife to death despite her eight-year-old daughter's efforts to stop the attack has been jailed for at least 20 years after being found guilty of murder.Read
A woman from Staffordshire, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, has accused Gordon Brown of evading the questions in his evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry.Read
The mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old Birmingham girl who starved to death have had their sentencing adjourned so the judge can hear evidence from psychiatrists.Read
A presenter from the BBC’s Asian Network said the community was in desperate need of the station after listeners were left distraught by the news it is to close.Read
The mother of a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has slammed the Government for its failure to call an inquiry into the use of vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers.Read
