Birmingham, England News

Victims of crime and anti-social behaviour are to be given a guarantee that they will be put first when dealing with the city council, police and other public agencies.

Lester Kidd, aged 76, was found dead in a shed by fire crews tackling a blaze at the back of a property in Mostyn Road, Handsworth, last November.

Birmingham's planning committee has found itself powerless to stop the controversial Church of Scientology opening a A 6 million headquarters in Moseley.

THE family of a Stourport cyclist who died after a collision with a car have paid tribute to a much-loved son and brother.

A woman who fought tirelessly for workers who endured 80-hour weeks and appalling conditions is to be honoured for her campaigning.

Plans to convert a mansion house in Birmingham into a A 6m headquarters for the Church of Scientology have been recommended for approval.

The Bishop of Birmingham said he wanted to see something like Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture to represent nature's influence on world faiths Fellow viewer Mae Bourbage suggested bringing back the King Kong statue, which was built and positioned outside the Bull Ring in the early 1970s Birmingham's Civic Society says it wants to commission a piece ... (more)

About 250 properties in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter were left without electricity on Wednesday morning after a fault in electrical equipment sparked a power cut.

In 2000, a fifteen-year old Gavin persuaded his Dad to buy him a ticket to see the Smashing Pumpkins on their farewell tour.

A man has described the moment he and two others were forced to leap from a first-floor window of a house in Birmingham to escape from a fire started by his spurned ex wife.

Eddie Izzard brings laught to the NIA, classic musicals Miss Saigon and Oliver are back on stage, there's chance to vote on metal bands and a night of folk at the Red Lion Tonight is the second night of Eddie Izzard's Force Majeure tour at the NIA, after an extra date was announced to cope with demand.

POLICE are hunting three suspected members of a Chinese Triad gang who carried out an horrific assault on a karaoke bar customer.

Falling somewhere between Primal Scream, Happy Mondays and Bush, the buzzing Birmingham, England four-piece Peace makes its Philadelphia debut this summer with a headlining show at Johnny Brenda's on June 10th.

The family of an eight-year-old girl from Birmingham have demanded to know why she died while being treated for mild dehydration on holiday in India.

For decades, the last Mini from British Leyland's former Longbridge plant near Birmingham, England, sat abandoned in the maze of tunnels below the massive factory, its roof staved in by an unfortunate encounter with a shipping container.

The cones are fitted with an alarm that " will literally scream " when the cone is struck, the Highways Agency said.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is honoring a father-daughter education advocacy team with the Reflections of Hope Award Monday.

Further government funding cuts could lead to 1,000 more jobs going at West Midlands Police, its police and crime commissioner has warned.

They are suffering from severe Demodex mange, the result of which is that they have absolutely no fur and their skin is open to the elements.

Stephanie Bottrill, 53, from Solihull in the West Midlands, died in the early hours of 4 May after being hit by a lorry on the M6 near her home.