Funds are being raised for the five-year project at the Widney Road centre at Bentley Heath park. Sainsbury’s – which is currently working on a store plan for Forest Court, Dorridge – has already helped out and its contractors have partially refitted the kitchen and store room. The flat roof over the store room and one…

A woman cyclist in her 80s is fighting for her life after she was involved in a serious collision with a lorry. The woman was taken to hospital following the incident in High Street, Shirley, near to Peterbrook Road, at 8.30am this morning. She was treated at the scene by paramedics and has been rushed…

Fear and worry has once again been struck in to the heart of parents across the borough after a second attempted child abduction in less than two months. The latest incident happened on Widney Manor Road at around 4.30pm on Monday 10th March when a seven-year-old girl was asked by a man to get in…

Singer Adam Dean, 22, has been performing as the multiple Grammy award-winning artist after winning a talent show three years ago. “I won the Solihull Talent show with My Way by Frank Sinatra,” he said. “After that Bublé had a number one hit with ‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ and it was then that I started…

At just five years old Iona Atkins was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Now the brave 12 year old is starring in school musicals. “Looking back, Iona was displaying classic signs of a brain tumour,” recalls her mum Ann Atkins. “The problem was, as we knew she had a problem with her ear, we put…

A mum who almost died while battling anorexia has told how she is ‘terrified’ that her children might get the same condition. Jo Thompson, from Shirley, dropped to a skeletal four and a half stone and was given just 48 hours to live. She was treated at Birmingham Children’s Hospital for 18 months. But determined…

The busy hall, originally built as a school and chapel, has been at risk of closure since regular church services ceased there in 2010. The Church of England Trust had considered selling the historic building, but an agreement has been reached with the local community to appoint new trustees to manage the hall. The red…

A holidaymaker who suffered a heart attack as he flew home to the Midlands has been reunited with the Birmingham Airport police officers who helped save his life. David Jackson collapsed as he waited for his luggage after arriving on a flight from Majorca last October. Officers from the airport policing unit raced to help…

The men were arrested as part of an on-going investigation into the activities of a West Midlands based building company in relation to allegations of fraud. In a joint exercise between the West Midlands Regional Fraud Team, The Central England Regional Trading Standards Scambuster Team, Birmingham City Trading Standards and Solihull Trading Standards, four warrants…

A woman has revealed how she had a rugby ball-sized cyst removed while battling a rare cancer that made her look nine months pregnant. Lyn Perrett, 53, from Shirley, was originally diagnosed as having irritable bowels when she went to her GP with chronic stomach pains in January last year. When the pain returned and…