The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A young schoolboy riding an electric scooter has tragically died after a bus collision in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham this morning. The 12-year-boy was riding the scooter to school when the tragedy happened just before 8am (Tuesday 6 December).
A frenzied hoodlum seeking revenge has been jailed after breaking into a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in Birmingham armed with a machete and causing damage inside. Bobby Dwyer, 22, broke into the property in Acocks Green, in the early hours of September 28, and left the occupants in a state of terror.
West Midlands Police issued an apology tonight after the shocking murder of a mother and daughter in 2018. Raneem Oudeh, 22, and her mother Khaola Saleem were both brutally stabbed to death outside their home in Northdown Road, Solihull, on 27 August 2018 by Oudeh’s estranged husband who had followed them home.
Police have sealed off several streets in the Aston area of Birmingham this evening after a shocking mass fight which ended with four men being stabbed and hospitalised. The mass brawl took place in Witton Road around 5pm on Friday (18 November).
Police have charged a man with the murder of his brother Clifton Waite in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. Lenville Waite was arrested in connection with the death of 56-year-old Clifton, also known as Colton, who was found fatally stabbed in Waverley Road last Monday (7 November).
A suspect wanted for the murder of his brother in the Small Heath area of Birmingham has been arrested, say police. The 58-year-old murder suspect, who was on the run, was taken into custody on Friday (11 September).
A suspected killer is on the run in Birmingham after murdering his own brother in the Small Heath area of the city on Monday night. Clifton Waite, 56, was stabbed to death inside a property in Waverley Road around 9:50pm on Monday night.
Residents are calling for action after a pedestrian was killed last night in a shocking hit-and-run tragedy in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham. Police are appealing for information and witnesses following the fatality which took place after 11pm on Tuesday night (1 November).
A neo-Nazi terrorist who was convicted in Birmingham has been granted an early release from prison after a parole hearing in September. Alice Cutter – who wanted to start a “race war” – was jailed in 2020 for being a member of a banned UK terror group.
Police have named the victim of a fatal stabbing which took place in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham earlier this week. Fuaad Husein, aged 45, was discovered in a pool of blood at the junction of Stratford Road and Priestley Road on Monday 26 September.