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The Latest Breaking News from West Midlands

The big picture: cheering Red Rum in the Grand National

Phil Loach photographed the streets he’d known since childhood in the West Midlands for 50 years, capturing moments of everyday drama and quiet humour

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix council funding crisis

Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2024

Sunak under growing pressure from Tories to return £10m Hester donation

West Midlands mayor and Scottish Conservatives openly question PM’s position that donor’s apology to Diane Abbott closed matter

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

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Tributes left at scene as girl, 10, found dead at house in Rowley Regis

A woman, 33, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the West Midlands death

Evening Standard · Mar 5, 2024

Mayor says 21-mile cycleway alongside HS2 route a ‘no-brainer’ for West Midlands

Andy Street has asked HS2 Ltd to keep haul tracks for path linking Birmingham and Coventry

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2024

Health experts to probe increase in tuberculosis as cases rise in London and elsewhere

London, the West Midlands and the North West of England have seen the largest increases in TB cases

Evening Standard · Feb 15, 2024

Excelr8 begins tie-up with Dynamics for 2024 BTCC season

Excelr8, which carried Tom Ingram to the 2022 crown, has moved its squad of four Hyundai i30 N Fastbacks into Dynamics’ facility in Droitwich, from which the West Midlands operation won a total of six BTCC overall titles with Honda machinery in the hands of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.

Autosport · Feb 9, 2024

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'National incident' declared after measles cases soar - with some unvaccinated children forced to isolate for 3 weeks

New figures have shown an increase in measles cases in England and Wales, as MMR vaccine uptake declines

GoodToKnow · Jan 16, 2024

Conservative MP writes to home secretary over Sikh activist’s sudden death

Avtar Singh Khanda’s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North America

The Guardian - UK · Jan 3, 2024

West Midlands mayor asks Home Secretary to transfer police commissioner powers

Andy Street said the police and crime commissioner model was ‘not holding West Midlands Police well enough to account to drive down crime’.

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2023

West Midlands mayor ‘close’ to resigning after talks with PM about HS2

Andy Street said plans to axe the HS2 line from Birmingham to Manchester came ‘out of the blue’.

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

HS2 cuts throw away once-in-a-generation opportunity, warns David Cameron

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced HS2 will no longer extend beyond the West Midlands.

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

West Midlands mayor: I won’t quit Tories despite ‘agonising’ HS2 cut

Andy Street said he was still hopeful a private sector consortium could revive the idea of a high-speed rail line to Manchester.

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

Tory Party conference – live: Sunak set to finally confirm he will scrap HS2 rail link to Manchester

He will also use his speech to attack the last 30 years of “broken politics”

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023

Increase benefits by inflation, top Tory urges Rishi Sunak

West Midlands mayor Andy Street says a ‘big chunk of people’ are hurting in cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2023

Domestic abusers leaving prison to wear electronic tags in pilot scheme

Launching in east and West Midlands, the scheme is expected to be rolled out across England and Wales next year

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

Share of EU trade for English and Welsh factories falls despite global trade boom

Make UK report says post-Brexit structural shift in trade is particularly hurting factories in north-west and West Midlands

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2023

Two Midlands police officers found guilty over liaisons with abuse victims

Officers had sexual relationships with women after attending their homes in response to domestic violence reports

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2023

Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 70s

The photographer travelled the West Midlands in a campervan to document the workers risking their lives to toil in steel mills, coal mines and blast furnaces

Birmingham Post · Jul 10, 2023

Economic growth sustained as inflationary pressures recede further - report

Latest PMI report from NatWest and signals growth for the fifth month in a row

Birmingham Post · Jul 7, 2023

Lioncroft Wholesale eyes expansion outside West Midlands heartland

Chief executive of food and drink wholesaler outlines plans for firm three years after buyout from East End Foods which brought company back under family's control

Daily Mirror · Jul 7, 2023

Meet the VERY special train station worker who faces being made homeless by closures

George lives at the busy Stourbridge Junction station in the West Midlands, which is one of up to 1,000 across England where the ticket office is at risk of closure

Birmingham Post · Jun 27, 2023

US firm chooses i54 for new manufacturing plant

Construction work is well under way on Fortune Brands Innovations' new plant in the West Midlands which is set to create 250 new jobs

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2023

Gang ferried drugs using ‘thank you NHS’ van during lockdown

They even used a ‘Thank You NHS’ van to transport the heroine and cocaine across the West Midlands

Daily Mirror · Jun 13, 2023

Bereaved families tell devastating stories of loss to Covid-19 inquiry - FULL video

In a heart-breaking 17-minute film, people from across the UK spoke through their tears about their devastating experiences of losing spouses, parents and siblings during the pandemic

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