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Thousands of people are trying to book their Covid booster jabs today and this has led to the NHS website crashing, the government has said. Walk-in vaccine centres in England were seeing long queues after Boris Johnson announced an expansion...

A UK asian businessman has become the first Indian-born recipient of the position of Honorary Captain in the Royal Navy. The promotion was made official today (Friday 28th February) at a ceremony in Birmingham for Captain Raj Aggarwal OBE,...

Couple Jasbir Kaur, 52, and her husband Rupinder Singh Bassan, 51 were found dead at their home in Oldbury. Anmol Chana, 25, son of Jasbir Kaur appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with murdering the couple between February...

A cannabis factory raid ended with two men killed in the stomach with a crossbow, Khuzaimah Douglas, 19, and 36-year-old Waseem Ramzan died after robbers targeted a property in Pensnett Road in the early hours of Thursday, February 20. An inquest...

Wednesday 26th February marks the start of Lent, a Catholic liturgical season consisting of forty days of fasting, prayer, and penitence beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at sundown on Holy Thursday. It is an important period of observance...

Key stakeholders in the Healthcare sector in India and UK converged at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital UHB NHS Trust, Birmingham, to participate in the India –UK Healthcare Conference 2020. ''The year 2020 is expected to witness an inflection point in...

Couple Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra have been blessed with their second child, a baby girl, born through surrogacy. Shilpa took to Instagram to make the announcement that their little angel Samisha Shetty Kundra arrived on February...

A doctor from Redditch was arrested at Birmingham Airport for being too drunk after he could not stand up in the body scanner. Vijaykrishna Maddikera, 52, was supposed to travel to India on December 29 to visit his ill father...

Magic Bus – one of India’s top five education charities – asks for support in it’s drive for securing high quality education and work for hundreds of thousands of girls across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.  The UK and India enjoy...

If you’re claiming free dental treatment – don’t assume you can claim it for free. Not all benefits entitle you to free dental treatment, and if you claim when you’re not entitled, you could face a penalty charge of £100 plus...

A judge gave a restaurant worker a custodial sentence after he deceived authorities with a false identity to allow him stay in the UK. Nurul Islam was found guilty of taking on a Birmingham man's ID Islam spent years living illegally...

Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital A&E has been slammed by a patient’s daughter after her mum had to wait for fourteen hours before seeing a doctor. Daughter Sibka Minhas took her 69-year-old mother - who suffers from dementia - to the A&E...