The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
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.
A drug dealer who stabbed a father-of-four and left him to die in a Birmingham street has today been convicted of murder after police found the two “Rambo-style” knives used in the brutal attack hidden at his home. Malik Hussain was fatally stabbed and dumped in a street after a row erupted when he and a…
MP Jess Phillips‘ light-hearted autobiography Everywoman is to be turned into TV drama by the people behind Years and Years and Black Mirror. The Manchester-based RED production company will “explore how an engaged woman can make a difference in today’s very complicated world” as it captures the life of the outspoken Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley.
Yardley MP Jess Phillips clashed with protesters outside Anderton Park Primary School this morning, where activists opposing teaching of LGBT equality have continued to disrupt lessons at the Birmingham school. Tensions flared and police officers arrived on the scene as the Member of Parliament locked horns with anti-LGBT campaigners, following claims of cars being attacked and hundreds of…