The Love Solihull team said they were blown away by the positive community spirit shown last week when a large group of young people from ‘The Challenge’ joined forces with Friends of Shirley Park (FoSP) to create a new path within Shirley Park. A spokesperson said: “Love Solihull have been working with young people who…

Solihull Council has prosecuted Mr Steve Brennan, trading as SB Scaffolding, for operating an overloaded vehicle. Mr Brennan’s scaffold lorry was stopped by police and weighed by officers from Solihull Council’s trading standards team on 22nd November 2017. When weighed, it was found to be 1680kg (48%) over the legal weight limit. A SMBC spokesperson…

Police in Solihull are urging drivers to be wary, after so called ‘Corsa Cannibals’ struck again over the weekend. Thieves stripped bonnets, grilles and headlights from four Corsa’s throughout the course of the weekend, bringing the total number of reported offences in recent weeks to eleven. It’s thought crafty thieves are able to quickly and…

A new Solihull care home has been savaged in a health watchdog report which detailed claims one elderly resident had not showered for 14 WEEKS. Another had allegedly received only two showers since arriving at Chelmund’s Court in Chelmsley Wood last November. And a monthly analysis of the “falls audit” at the crisis-hit home, carried…

Tudor Grange Leisure Centre, Solihull Council House and secondary schools near the town centre could be among the first buildings linked up to an underground heat network. It was recently revealed that the borough council was looking at the possibility of drawing on the heat generated by a water source beneath Tudor Grange Park. An…

Stones erected more than a century ago – to honour local men who fought in the Boer Wars – are set to form part of a new memorial in a Solihull village. Solihull Council has confirmed that the plans to create the monument on land adjacent to Tanworth Lane, Cheswick Green, fall within permitted development…

A Solihull gambler thought it was his lucky day when he discovered £15,000 left unattended by a high roller at the Genting Casino at Resorts World. Panikos Constantinou “stuffed the cash up his jumper” and then fled from the premises before gambling the cash away. Constantinou, 63, of Landrail Walk, Smithswood appeared at Birmingham Crown…

Gym-goers in Solihull are now benefitting from a £1million boost thanks to the investment of a new sports and leisure operator. The fitness suites at North Solihull Sports Centre and Tudor Grange Leisure Centre have been transformed following a cash injection from Everyone Active. It is the most significant investment to be made by the…

Following a series of indecent exposures that have taken place in Solihull and Sheldon in the last couple of weeks, a 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged with the offences. He will appear before Birmingham Magistrates Court on the 21st August to hear the charges against him.

Moving Solihull Railway Station to a new location would be “problematic and expensive”, likely to cost at least twice the amount of revamping the current site. A report due to be considered by borough councillors later this week recommends ruling out the option of building a new station at Monkspath Hall Road. The document predicts…