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Four Birmingham drug dealers have been jailed for a total of 46 years after a West Midlands Police investigation uncovered a plot to supply Class A drugs worth £1.5m. Detectives from the force’s Serious and Organised...

Postgraduate students from Coventry University’s School of Art and Design will be showcasing their work to the public at a free exhibition taking place in the city this month. The MA Show 2014, which takes place...

Man jailed after injuring woman on a mobility scooter in collision A Birmingham man has been jailed for four years after leaving a woman on a mobility scooter with critical injuries in a collision after driving...

Four Birmingham drug dealers have been jailed for a total of 46 years after a West Midlands Police investigation uncovered a plot to supply Class A drugs worth £1.5m. Detectives from the force’s Serious and Organised...

Wash and no-go as windscreen washer women given ASBOs Two women have been banned from washing car windows in England and Wales for the next two years. Ardelianca Ion, 21, of Ludlow Road and Anisoara Radu,...

China’s budget management is lagging behind countries which spend similar amounts on research and development (R&D), and recent reform has not gone far enough. That is the view of The University of Nottingham’s Dr Cong Cao,...

Detectives are appealing for help to trace a beanie-hat wearing attacker who sexually assaulted a woman as she walked through Ward End Park. The 51-year-old was grabbed by an unknown man as she was walking towards...

Two West Midlands Police Spaniels are swapping Solihull for Seoul as they help protect South Korea’s buildings from the threat of troublesome termites. While their four legged colleagues may be more accustomed to helping officers sniff...

A Birmingham man has been jailed for more than seven years after car-jacking an Audi with a toddler inside − and then dropping the boy through a window on realising he was still strapped in his...

Two men have handed themselves in to police after detectives issued a CCTV appeal yesterday (Wednesday 26 August) in relation to a sexual assault in Rednal. The images were released after a woman was attacked in...