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As youth unemployment rises, an issue that has affected young people in the Asian community and other communes, an expert at Birmingham City University urges the Chancellor George Osbourne to look to the West Midlands for...

By Iyma Atiq Humza Arshad, star and creator of hit YouTube series Diary of a Badman has kicked off his comedy tour around the UK. The Badman Comedy tour has been playing in Glasgow, London and...

A Leicester teenager was struck by a hit and run driver, who left the scene. 14 year old Qais Khan was flung onto bonnet and against the windscreen on a pedestrian crossing in Chesterfield, Evington in...

Halesowen police officers are urging residents in the Howley Grange area of the town to be secure their vehicles. The area has seen a number of vehicle crime offences take place and 20 vehicles over the...

A married couple were shot dead in Pakistan in what is suspected to be an honour killing. Glasgow businessman Saif Rehman and his wife Uzma Naurin, from New York, were reportedly targeted in Gujarat on November...

Asian parents looking to buy a gift for their children will be considering themselves fortunate, after hundreds of potentially dangerous toys have been taken from a Birmingham wholesaler. Scooters with riskily narrow handle bars and wheels...

A bogus clamper has been jailed after being found guilty of blackmailing motorists. Mohammed Asif Ashraf, from Blackley in Manchester claimed to be a licensed ‘vehicle immobiliser’ and tricked motorists into parting with large sums of...

A Birmingham magistrate and his former partner have been jailed for the murder of a two –year-old girl, who died of septic shock after being forced under a scalding hot shower. Rashpal Chana and the Kristiana...

Women who are expecting children next year will no longer be able to go to Birmingham Women’s Hospital. The city hospital was force to close its maternity unit after under-staffing had proved to be problematic. A...

A Birmingham mother, convicted of starving her seven year old daughter, has lost her bid to shorten her sentence. Khyra Ishaq was beaten and left hungry by her mother Angela Gordan and her partner Junaid Abuhamza...