Plans are in place to switch fixed speed cameras in Solihull back on as part of a £400,000 digital pilot scheme. Solihull Council, working alongside West Midlands Police, will look at the idea of introducing fixed point digital speed cameras – five of which will replace the existing speed cameras turned off in April last…

Controversial  ‘alternative flight plans’ proposed by Birmingham Airport are to be trialled from May – it was confirmed on Wednesday (9th). Since summer 2012 the Airport has been developing an Airspace Change Proposal, required for a change to departure flight paths to the south of the Airport created by the new runway extension. After considering…

A leading member of the Catholic church in Solihull has been charged with indecently assaulting a child. Father Ted Simpson, a former school governor and priest at Olton Friary will appear at Birmingham Crown Court on 21st May when he is due to enter a plea. He is currently on police bail. The 84-year-old was…

Football legends have been in Solihull this week to celebrate a charity supporting former players who have fallen on hard times. Ian Taylor, Michael Johnson and Kevin Campbell were just some of the high-profile names at the new Xpro offices at Wellington House, Solihull. With as many two out of every five players going bankrupt…

Solihull’s answer to the hugely successful Twilight series, Pat Spence, has published her own fantasy trilogy. Described as ‘a book for Twilight fans who want a change from vampires’, Blue Moon is the author’s first novel and book number one in the Blue Crystal trilogy. “When the Twilight series came out, I loved those books,”…

A star-studded line up including X Factor star Stacey Solomon and comedian Brian Conley helped a ball held in memory of a Solihull boy raise £350,000. The sell-out event in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity, was held in honour of Joseph Foote, who died from a brain tumour in 2007 aged just nine. His…

Business woman and fundraiser Charity Hewitt is celebrating after her fundraising for the Lymphoma Association reached an impressive £18,000. This latest mile-stone was hit after kind-hearted employees at Santander decided to team up with Charity after she and her mum, Anne Rendle, went to pay in funds they had raised last year at the Shirley…

Cash-strapped health chiefs have been told they have to save £12million in Solihull over the next three years. The NHS has to reduce its costs to balance its budget, with a national shortfall of £30 billion over the next five years. In Solihull, this means Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which is led by local…

Parents, children and schools across Solihull are once again on high alert after two more cases of young girls being approached by strangers. The latest incidents happened last Wednesday 26th March and Thursday 27th March. On Wednesday two Widney Junior School girls were approached by an elderly man – details of the incident are not…

A Birmingham law firm has demanded a full recall of all of shamed cancer surgeon Ian Paterson’s patients – after claims one had unnecessary treatment for seven years. And Thompson Solicitors say hundreds of unneeded colonoscopy treatments may have been carried out by the doctor while working at Spire hospitals in Little Aston and Solihull….