Three smugglers from the Black Country who cheated the taxman out of £1.7 million as they brought 11 million illicit cigarettes into Britain have been jailed.Read
A special forces soldier told an inquest that he believed a vehicle he was in was “not adequate for the job” after it struck a roadside bomb, causing the first female casualty in Afghanistan.Read
ARMED police today swooped to arrest four people as they stepped up the hunt for a gun-toting gang who tied up three cemetery workers and smashed through a bank wall with a JCB.Read
The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police was at loggerheads with Gordon Brown over Government targets for getting officers out on to the streets.Read
The daughter of a man who died after just ten days at a Birmingham nursing home which was investigated over a string of deaths said she was worried about the level of care, an inquest heard.Read
A jury was sworn in for the trial of a man accused of killing a Warwickshire hunt supporter who died after he was hit by a gyrocopter's rotor blade.Read
A coroner has questioned the equipment, training and mine detection drills in the run up to the death of a soldier from Kidderminster and three of his comrades in Afghanistan.Read
A 55-year-old Warwickshire man is to go on trial charged with killing a hunt supporter who died after being struck by the rotor blades of a gyrocopter.Read
