Two disabled brothers threatened with eviction have won their fight to stay in their home of 34 years. Richard and Frank Smith signed a new tenancy deal with Solihull Council – two months after the authority threatened to kick them out of their home in Chelmsley Wood. The brothers were ordered out even though money…

After planning her mountaineering and charity challenge with military precision, the 16-year-old corporal in the school’s Combined Cadet Corps raised £1,300 to take part in Exercise Kenya Venturer after turning her home into a tea shop. More than 70 supporters, including the mayor of Solihull Coun Joe Tildesley and wife Joan, tucked into the full…

More than 160 objections and 180 submissions of support were sent to Solihull Council after the application for the village of Catherine-de-Barnes. It is understood the businessman behind the application felt planning conditions meant he could not afford to go through with the project. Read the full story here: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26524929.

The millionaire Italian said he remained open to doing a deal with Carson Yeung, who was convicted of five £57 million money laundering charges in Hong Kong. Paladini earlier fought a war of words with acting St Andrew’s chairman Peter Pannu over his bid to do a deal but this week he told of his…

Naomi Watson refused all offers of chemotherapy and radiotherapy and the 55-year-old, from Dorridge, also turned down a second operation at Solihull Hospital after the scandal over Paterson’s ‘cleavage-sparing’ mastectomies broke. “I didn’t want another operation after what had happened, even though the doctors recommended it,” she said. “I had already chosen to go down…

A knife-wielding man who went on a rampage in Sheldon, forcing his way into two houses and holding a terrified woman at knifepoint on New Year’s day, has avoided a jail sentence. Paranoid schizophrenic Miles Nunes was spotted by a pensioner, standing in his garden, holding a shovel. Andrew Jackson, prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court…

It has been traditionally regarded as Britain’s second city and has long laboured under a less-than-glamorous reputation, but with London surging ahead as an economic powerhouse, and rival Manchester growing in stature, Birmingham’s status has never been more under threat. Now, in a bold step to raise the profile of the city and its surrounding…

The proposed changes will include a “review of management layers” in a bid to cut the equivalent of 85 posts. A total of £1 million would be saved from slashing “back office” costs, with the remaining £1.5 million found in other departments. The plan emerged in the council’s 2014/15 budget document. Spending of more than…

Just two out of the 16 courts were sitting on Friday as protesting solicitors and barristers brought the justice system in the city to a temporary halt. Walkouts took place at both Birmingham Crown Court and the city’s Magistrates Court in protest at the £220 million cutbacks to legal aid ordered by the Government. The…

Chris White, 83, was left mortified after he received a letter describing how he had a ‘strong smell of alcohol’ while attending an appointment at Solihull Hospital in December 2013. Chris, who said he never touched a drop of drink in his life, has now had the doctor’s statement removed from his medical record after a…