RSPCA are appealing for information to help find the person responsible for beheading a dog and severing her front leg before leaving the dead pet to be found by her distraught owner. The gruesome discovery was made by Andrea Jarvis after she returned to her home in Vernon Street, Bilston, Wolverhampton, and called for her […]
A £3m project to improve the public realm in the Snow Hill area of the city centre for pedestrians and public transport connectivity will begin next week. Birmingham City Council’s contractors McPhillips will begin construction work on the first phase of the wider Snow Hill Public Realm programme – funded by the Greater Birmingham and […]
Birmingham City Council has reviewed its opening times for visitors across all burial sites and crematoria grounds throughout the city. Opening hours will be expanded with all grounds returning to their regular opening times over the weekend. The current pandemic has meant that the council has had to respond quickly to new guidance and changes […]
Police seized more than 1,000 wraps of drugs and £10,000 in cash during raids this morning (5 June) as we brought down a major County Lines supply chain. Officers from the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) executed three warrants in Coventry linked to a gang feeding heroin and crack cocaine into Warwickshire. A […]
Police need your help after a violent carjacking of a man and his pregnant wife in Kings Norton was captured on video. Four men arrived outside the couple’s home in the Moneyhull Grange area of Kings Norton, in a white Renault Clio as the victim stood next to his VW Golf R estate. The 44-year-old man […]
Police are urging singletons to be on their guard against online con-artists who are cruelly exploiting their search for love. It comes as 19 victims were duped out of almost £100,000 combined across the West Midlands in the last three months. The heartless tricksters set up fake online profiles and build up a rapport with […]
Today’s demonstration presented a challenge for the city in terms of balancing people’s right to protest, which police in the UK uphold, and the social distancing restrictions put in place to protect us all during the coronavirus health emergency. Police estimate around 4,000 took part in this afternoon’s protest. The protesters were loud and passionate, […]
A 53-year-old man has this afternoon been arrested in the Erdington area this afternoon on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence. The victim is being spoken to by officers and the investigation continues. Police are aware of a video circulating online that shows a taxi driver being racially abused Officers have been in […]
Two men have been jailed for 14 years after cops discovered a Class A drugs production line at a house in Coventry. Officers from the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) swooped on an address in Hipswell Highway in July 2018 after acting on information and intelligence. Cocaine and heroin worth up to £45,000 and cannabis were […]