The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A community sleepout in the open outdoors is set to take place in Birmingham next month to raise funds for Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza strip. With the motto to “challenge yourself for a night to sleep under the stars so a child in Gaza won’t have to”, the fundraising event is being organised…
A Birmingham social work activist has returned his British Empire Medal in protest over “Labour’s refusal to commit to free school meals and the Tories removal of children’s murals” at an asylum centre. Eddie O’Hara was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours in 2021 for his charity work and for…
Police are appealing for witnesses and video footage after a man died following a fatal collision in Birmingham on New Year’s Eve. The 37-year-old man was taken to hospital following the incident which took place on Stratford Road in Hall Green, close to the junction with Fox Hollies Road, shortly after 11.30pm on 31 December.
A suspected drug dealer got a rude awakening when police raided his flat on Thursday (10 December) where officers recovered a loaded gun and shotgun, and a carrier bag half-full with a white powder thought to be Class A drugs. Detectives executed a warrant at the flat in Green Road, Hall Green just after 2pm…
Three Birmingham men have been jailed for kidnapping a college student and forcing him to rob his own family home. Brothers Ibrahim and Hassan Rauf captured the 18-year-old student on 8 May last year after Ibrahim lured him into a shop in Balsall Heath on the pretence of feeling faint and needing help.
West Midlands Police are appealing for information following a violent robbery on Highfield Road in the Hall Green area of Birmingham at 6pm on Saturday 15th February. Three masked men, armed with screwdrivers, forced their way into a house and pulled a pregnant woman off the bed, before kicking her in the stomach and legs….
Former Birmingham city councillor Salma Yaqoob is standing as a candidate in Bradford West in the upcoming general election, she has announced. Salma, a political activist and qualified psychotherapist, has thrown her hat into the ring following a six-year hiatus from political office, after stepping down as councillor for Birmingham Sparkbrook back in July 2011, due to ill…