The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A serious incident involving guns took place in Winson Green and two injured teenagers were rushed to City Hospital on Thursday night. Two young men were brought to the hospital by car with gunshot wounds just before 10pm on Thursday (30 December).
Police have launched an investigation after shots were fired at a taxi on Dudley Road in Birmingham on the afternoon of 9th April 2020. Detectives were alerted after two men fired a gun at a taxi that was parked up outside Top Taste takeaway in Dudley Road just after 4.40pm on Thursday 9th April 2020.
Police have arrested a man for allegedly making a menacing coronavirus phone call to a Birmingham hospital and posting an offensive YouTube video entitled “I hope all NHS die”. West Midlands Police confirmed that Matthew Wain was arrested from a flat in Perry Barr, Birmingham, in the early hours of Wednesday (April 1) in connection with a…
Family members performing last rites for a father-of-eight and a much-loved member of the local community, all while wearing face masks and standing separately from one another. This was the heartbreaking scene today during the funeral service of an elderly Muslim man from Birmingham, who died only days ago after contracting coronavirus.
A much-loved grandfather from Birmingham has died after contracting coronavirus, his family have announced. Afsar Hussain, 86, from Saltley is believed to have passed away in the early hours today (March 21) after a short battle with the COVID-19 virus.
West Midlands Fire crews are battling a huge fire that is raging at a derelict unit off Dudley Road and Western Road in Winson Green this afternoon. Huge plumes of smoke can be seen from right across Birmingham city centre as the fire rages at a warehouse full of waste paper and used tyres. The…