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A team of budding citizen journalists from migrant communities across the West Midlands have launched an online magazine for Black History Month. The group of mature students from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Coventry and Walsall have made the leap from learning basic media skills only a year ago to producing their first fully-fledged professional magazine this month.
West Midlands Police have issued a warning to criminals that city roads are no respite for drug trafficking after police traffic teams seized more than £10 million worth of drugs and suspected ‘dirty money’ in just 12 months. The force has pledged to continue to crackdown on crooks who attempt to use the region’s roads as escape routes to…
Thousands of people came out to marvel at the St Patrick’s Day parade in Birmingham yesterday. Digbeth High Street was awash with green and gold as festivities launched early in the morning with bright costumes and colour, clearly starting as they meant to go on.