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Birmingham City Council meeting summarised as leadership faces bins strike fury
The Labour administration faced intense pressure from both the public gallery and opposition councillors regarding the bins strike
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Everything you need to know about WASPI update on DWP compensation
The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign has issued an update
‘Make Birmingham safe again’ - Clash over call for council to declare public safety emergency
Birmingham Conservative councillors called for urgent action on violent crime - but the Labour administration says it's already a 'top priority'
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Everything you need to know as M6 drivers face 30mph speed limit and junction closures
National Highways is planning major repair work
Travellers remain on popular Birmingham park a fortnight after arrival
There have been complaints of 'fires and trash' on Perry Park
Everything you need to know as 'snow bomb' set to hit UK with -6 temperatures
Temperatures are set to plunge
Midlands man punched and pushed woman down concrete stairs
Jake Morris, 30, was found guilty of ABH
'We aim to let everyone feel they can relax and enjoy the season' - Police launch winter initiative in city centres
West Midlands Police has launched a fresh crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour in towns and city centres in the region.
Inside the new Birmingham neighbourhood pub Kennedy’s Bar in Moseley Village following packed out launch weekend
Take a look around Kennedy’s Bar - the new pub where the One Trick Pony used to be in Moseley Village in Birmingham
Two killed in horror crash after driver, 90, goes wrong way down dual carriageway
John Howell Price, 90, and Emily Thornton-Sandy, 30, both died in the crash
Birmingham murder investigation after body found at Perry Barr 'HMO'
Police and paramedics were called to a property on Walsall Road in Perry Barr
Netflix star dies aged 45 after leaving heartbreaking message to fans
Tributes have been paid to the star on social media
Police horses spotted at Birmingham German Christmas Market as they return after 26 years to combat football thugs and rots
West Midlands Police will use horses on the frontline for the first time in 26 years to combat rioting and football violence - and they’ve been spotted visiting the Birmingham German Christmas Market.
Major Birmingham CrossCountry strike update
Strike action planned by RMT union staff would have caused ‘significant disruption’ to its services.
'We are seeing an increased demand for emergency care': Ambulances queue outside a West Midlands hospital as A&E demand rises amid winter pressures
A video captures the winter pressures on the NHS in the West Midlands in action as ambulances are filmed queuing outside a hospital.
Royal Mail worker avoids jail after stealing £50k from parcels
Jonathan Brooking, 49, intercepted Special Delivery packages he had identified as containing money
Inside heated Birmingham Council meeting as leadership faces bins strike fury
Birmingham Council's political leaders faced angry questions amid 'unacceptable' costs and the prospect of the strike hitting the one year milestone
Mercedes driver ploughed into Birmingham nightclub crowd while high on drugs, court told
A Mercedes driver high on drugs tried to murder a student during Freshers Week in Birmingham by ploughing his vehicle into a crowd of people outside a nightclub, a court heard.
Good news for West Midlands rail as CrossCountry to run normal service on Saturdays in December after strike called off
Rail travellers have been given some good news after a planned industrial action by a rail union was suspended.
Beautician asphyxiated in nightclub toilet after 'collapsing in awkward position'
Chloe Ferris, 24, was found collapsed in a cubicle alongside another woman