The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
An LGBTQ+ community hub in the West Midlands has been shockingly vandalised as the UK marks LGBT History Month. Staff at the Birmingham LGBT centre – a leading charity advocating for and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Birmingham and neighbouring authorities – were shocked to discover an offensive and vulgar message engraved onto…
A police knife crackdown following the shocking stabbing of a schoolboy in Birmingham city centre has resulted in arrests and recovery of weapons. Knives were recovered and 46 people searched after temporary Section 60 powers were used after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed on Wednesday (18 January).
A number of young men have been arrested – including two teenagers – after a robbery and disorder involving knives in Birmingham city centre. Five suspects were taken into police custody after a serious incident in Cherry Street on Wednesday night.
Police sealed off parts of the city centre after a young schoolboy was stabbed near Birmingham New Street Station on Wednesday. The teenage boy was stabbed in Stephenson Place around 4:30pm and police flooded the area and sealed off the busy location.
Police have launched a manhunt after a young girl was grabbed around the waist by a masked man as she made her way to school on Tuesday morning (27 September). The shocking incident happened on the grassy area in Sandy Lane, near Booths Lane, in Perry Barr at 8.15am.
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.
A murder investigation has been launched after a man was found with vicious stab wounds in a road in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning (Monday). Police were alerted by paramedics who were treating the wounded victim in Stratford Road, at the junction of Priestley Road, Sparkbrook, at around 12.50am.
An arrest was made in Birmingham on Wednesday (6 July) in connection with the tragic stabbing of a Wolverhampton teenager whose family have been left devastated and brokenhearted by their loss. 16-year-old Ronan Kanda died after being stabbed on Wednesday 29 June.
A pack of around 10 young men stabbed and robbed a teenager in a park in the Erdington area of Birmingham on Monday. The savage knifing, which took place in Pype Hayes Park around 5:30pm on 4 July, left the male victim with stab wounds to his chest and back.
Today marks the ninth anniversary of one of the worst terror incidents in the recent history of Birmingham when an elderly and fragile Muslim man from Small Heath was knifed to death by a neo-Nazi terrorist. On April 29, 2013, Ukrainian white supremacist terrorist Pavlo Lapshyn stabbed and murdered Birmingham pensioner Mohammed Saleem outside Green Lane Masjid…