Baby bank sees more demand after £20 uplift cutpublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
The charity says referrals for help have increased since the reduction in October.
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Baby bank sees more demand after £20 uplift cutpublished at 12:28 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
City gets £2m grant to build new homes on car parkpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
Hereford MP Jesse Norman says the funding is great news but concedes the site is a flood risk.
Read MoreHospice fundraiser elephants sold at auctionpublished at 09:53 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
The elephants raise £368,000 for a local hospice at the auction.
Read MoreWorkers evacuated from large factory firepublished at 08:53 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
A fire involving an oil pit has broken out at a large factory in Birmingham.
Workers have been evacuated from the site on Wharf Street, Aston, said the West Midlands Fire Service.
It has about 30 firefighters at the site after being called shortly before 05:00 BST.
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End of twitter postVideo: Your 50-second West Midlands weather forecastpublished at 08:22 British Summer Time 15 October 2021
Sara Blizzard
BBC WeatherIt will be a dry day with some sunny spells and highs of 14°C (52 to 57°F).
Media caption, Latest weather for the West Midlands
Hundreds gather to protest over homophobic attackspublished at 22:01 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Several violent episodes have been reported in Birmingham in recent months.
Read MorePC sacked for relationship with abuse victimpublished at 21:22 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
'Abhorrent' James Ankrett has been dismissed from the West Midlands force for gross misconduct.
Read MoreRow over losing 'the lungs of the Black Country'published at 19:42 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
The National Trust has revised tree-felling plans for Kinver Edge.
Read MoreBrothers jailed for killing younger siblingpublished at 19:19 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
David and Samuel Rogers are sentenced after stabbing Thomas Rogers amid a family feud.
Read MoreWasps sign McHenry and Harrisonpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Wasps sign Munster centre Alex McHenry and Edinburgh hooker Paddy Harrison as cover on short-term contracts.
Read MoreMurderer severed man's arm after dumbbell attackpublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
David Swaby is given a life sentence after using an array of weapons on his victim Hassan Ghafar.
Read MoreNewly discovered Reynolds painting goes on salepublished at 17:55 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
The artwork was neglected for years before it was restored and attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Read MoreGP staff 'on their knees' with patient demandpublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
One doctor says government calls to see more patients in person show ministers are "out of touch".
Read MoreWindow cleaner steps in as benefits uplift endspublished at 16:37 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Jay Hall says he will give £20-a-week to support a stranger after going through hardship himself.
Read MoreSix-year-old appeared 'skeletal' day before deathpublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes "couldn't hold himself up", his father's murder trial hears.
Read MoreFuture looking brighter for ex-inmatepublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Thomas Newton says he was in and out of prison before he was offered his own home.
Read MoreCovid: Plea to police over abuse of Chinese communitypublished at 14:31 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Local Democracy Reporting ServiceThe police are being asked to do more to tackle the racist abuse of the British-Chinese community in Birmingham in the wake of Covid-19.
City councillor Alex Yip said people from Chinese, Asian and South-East Asian backgrounds had been sworn at and told to go "back to China" and taunted with "here comes Covid".
Image source, Birmingham City CouncilMr Yip said there'd been a 300% increase in hate crime directed at people of that heritage as a result of the coronavirus.
He said he wanted West Midlands Police to make its hate crime reporting app more accessible and asked the force to do more to understand the "nuances within the Chinese community".
Mum's year of torture over wrongful Covid finepublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Police said Andrea Lloyd had broken household-mixing rules as her ex-partner dropped their son off.
Read MoreRepairs set to begin on historic listed buildingpublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 14 October 2021
Shrewsbury's Grade II* listed Bear Steps building has suffered "significant failure" to its timber.
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