In March 2020, the RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial was established as a randomised clinical trial to test a range of potential treatments for COVID-19, including low-dose dexamethasone (a steroid treatment). Over 11,500 patients have been enrolled from over 175 NHS hospitals in the UK. On 8 June, recruitment to the dexamethasone arm […]
Police have closed down 20 County Lines drugs networks and made almost 200 arrests in the last six months – but crucially WMP are also working with partners to keep children from the clutches of drugs gangs. Since last November Police have carried out 88 so called ‘safeguarding interventions’ – that’s action Police have taken […]
Applications for Discretionary Grant Payments have now closed with 1,898 Birmingham businesses requesting financial support during the two-week window. Following on from the Government’s Small Business and Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants which were announced in the spring, Discretionary Grant Payments were introduced to support businesses which were ineligible for the initial grants, but adversely […]
Two Birmingham men have been jailed for drugs and firearms offences, after we recovered ‘boasting’ videos showing them in a stolen car with a shotgun. Husam Yafai and Worum Gatkouth were arrested on 12 January this year, after a Volkswagen Golf was stolen the previous night from a property in Wheelers Lane, Kings Heath. The […]
This is Junior Lovelace. He’s been jailed after smashing his way into a home and causing around £2000 worth of damage. Lovelace and two others threw a brick and a wheelie bin through the window of a flat in Haydn Grove, Sheldon during the early hours of 2 April. The homeowner was sitting watching TV […]
Police have charged 26 people mainly from the Walsall area with historical child sex offences dating back to between 2008 and 2016 following an investigation by officers from Police Public Protection Unit. All 26, aged between 20 and 69, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates Court on 22 and 23 June. Chief Inspector Jo Floyd said: […]
Following a period of closure related to nearby roadworks, the city’s Castle Bromwich Household Recycling Centre (HRC) will re-open on Thursday (June 18). A Household Recycling Centre As at all of Birmingham’s other HRCs, visits can only be made by those who book a slot in advance via the web. The same restrictions and rules […]
Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was pushed into the canal between University and Five Ways in Birmingham on Friday (12 June) evening. The 26-year-old woman was heading towards the city centre near Edgbaston Park Road at about 6.30pm, when she saw eight to 10 youths cycling towards her. The group, described as […]
Police have launched an investigation after a man was shot in the leg in Oldbury last night (13 June). Officers were sent to reports of a shooting involving two cars on St. Johns Road just after 7.30pm. On arrival both cars had left, but there was a significant amount of blood on the pavement. A […]