O2 phone bills are set to rise for millions of customers from April 2019

Pay-as-you-go users will be spared, but pay monthly customers will have to pay more. O2 bills are set to increase from April, as customers feel the effects of the company's latest inflation price rise. Customers have already started being contacted about...

Passengers numbers have fallen in 2018 for Birmingham Airport

The number of passengers passing through Birmingham Airport was down by more than half a million last year. 12.5 million passengers went through the airport in 2018 when it welcomed additional routes and airlines, but it also lost some. A total...

Coventry Road Hay Mills Man stabbed and seriously injured

A man undergone serious injuries after he was stabbed at a property on a major city route A45, police have now revealed. A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of wounding. The victim was knifed in Coventry Road, Hay Mills,...

16 Year Old Boy Stabbed to Death in Small Heath

A teenager has died after being stabbed near a park in Small Heath, Birmingham. The boy, aged 16, was found critically injured with stab wounds at Herbert Road in Small Heath, near Sara Park. He was pronounced dead at the scene...

‘With all this uncertainty around Brexit, businesses need to remain positive’

This week the MRF ran their Brexit seminar, hosted by Natwest in Birmingham. An impressive range of panellists were lined up and a number of subjects were discussed on the evening but the main theme coming out of the...

Help find North Birmingham’s next creative talents and cultural hotspots!

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Vegetarian Hindu man served beef by Pizza Hut

A Hindu man from the Midlands who has never eaten meat in his life was served beef at a Pizza Hut restaurant. Abhishek Bhartiya, 30, visited the chain's Corner house restaurant in Nottingham on Sunday 17th February with his...

Solihull village to get new and much needed medical centre approved

A new medical centre is to be constructed in Marston Green, despite fears that the scheme could set a dangerous example for green belt development. Hopes scheme will meet rising demand, but green belt land will be lost. Solihull Council's...

Clampdown on insistent begging on Stratford Road Sparkbrook

Locals are furious demanding action to tackle ‘aggressive’ beggars along the Stratford Road, A34. One plain clothes officer was approached five times by one beggar. Residents claim dishonest beggars have taken over the busy main road at the junction of...

Taxi overturned in crash on Stratford Road Hall Green passenger thrown out of window

A passenger in a taxi was thrown through the window and ended up beneath the overturned cab in a dreadful accident on one of Birmingham's busiest roads the A34. Fire crews said the other car involved left the crash...

A Royal Mail post box placed in middle of driveway in Moseley

A house in Moseley, South Birmingham which is less than a stones throw away from a post box, because it is plonked in its newly widened driveway. Council investigating 'unauthorised works' after residents stumped over siting of box on...

Seriously ill grandmother from West Bromwich is now back in the UK

A grandmother who was taken seriously ill in Mexico but found insurers would not pay her £200,000 medical bills as  been flown back to the UK. Maxine Howell, from West Bromwich, was taken straight to Sandwell Hospital in a critical...