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Call for 'late-night curfew' and lower drink-drive limits for new UK drivers
New measures could improve road safety, says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster
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UK faces 'Russian snow bomb' with temperatures dropping to -9C
Some weather models show snow could fall on Christmas Day on December 25.
Exact hour UK snow bomb will hit with 3cm flurries - with Birmingham buried
Weather maps and charts, from WX Charts, which uses Met Desk data, shows a snow storm moving across the UK from the East on December 27.
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UK snow bomb worsens to 'blizzard' with eight counties in England set to be hit
WX Charts, which uses maps and charts from Met Desk, show temperatures plunging as we head towards the New Year.
Solihull family's hunt for Peppa Pig book that is 'only thing autistic son wants for Christmas' spreads worldwide
Little Fian, 11, from Solihull, hope to receive the Peppa Pig sound book 'Pirate Island' this Christmas
Security beefed up after Reform UK anti-racism protest halts meeting
Extra guards were deployed after protesters disrupted a previous meeting demanding resignations over social media posts
Santander issues warning for anyone with over £2,325 in bank account
Santander - which has branches in Birmingham - recorded nearly 450 purchase scams in the two weeks before December 25.
Bus station workers and more striking today in West Midlands after ‘inadequate’ pay offer
Employees involved in the strike include those who work at bus stations, interchanges, infrastructure project officers and customer service staff
Birmingham traffic hotspot named among UK's worst as Christmas jams 'set to peak today'
Travel alerts spread into the weekend with separate warning for 'severe' traffic tomorrow during last weekend before the festivities
Men accused of stealing scores of vehicles to stand trial next year
The case relates to 32 vehicle thefts in the West Mercia, Gloucestershire, Dyfed Powys, Sussex, Avon & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall force areas over eight months
Snow could fall 'across all parts of the UK by the end of Christmas Day'
Some forecasts predict a white Christmas as a weather system from Russia sweeps in
Ten cars stopped by West Midlands police for exactly the same reason on same day
It was part of the police's road safety Operation Advance in Birmingham city centre on December 16
'Dangerous' Midland child sex offender jailed
Andrew Davies committed a string of 'heinous' offences in the 70s and 80s
Birmingham WW2 codebreaking hero Ruth Bourne dies aged 99
Ruth Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham, worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and was awarded France's Legion d'Honneur
Former Midland dance teacher jailed for sexual assaults on students
Gregory Pichery touched his students during class and while they were trying on costumes
Anger as stand-in bin workers offered £600 'bonus' to collect Birmingham's festive rubbish
A fresh dispute has erupted after word got out that agency workers standing in for striking binmen in Birmingham have been offered a cash incentive to work over New Year
Dog walker, 75, 'feared for life' after cow attack left him with severed artery
Brian Gregory was trampled and butted by the cattle as he took a stroll along a pubic footpath with his labrador, Molly
Ex-Midland Premier League star successfully sues surgeon after 'premature end to career'
Ex-Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, 39, had surgery after he broke his left leg during a match against Birmingham City in April 2013
Over 30 firefighters battle blaze in Birmingham
Six crews from West Midlands Fire Service were called to Barr Street, in the Jewellery Quarter, from around 1.15pm today
Woman in hospital appears in court charged with murdering her three children
Yasmeen Ali, 43, is accused of murdering her three children - seven-year-old Fares Bash, three-year-old Joury Bash and nine-month-old Mohammed Bash - in February last year