Revolution Bar in Solihull is asking people to share the love by holding a special ‘Pay What You Feel’ day on Thursday 15th February at its venue on Station Road. All proceeds will be going to Acorns Children’s Hospice supporting its work caring for life limited and life threatened children and their families. Manager Alex…

The number of children becoming infected with scarlet fever in the UK has hit levels not seen in decades. The infection is caused by the streptococcus bacteria and tends to affect young children – although it can effect anyone. It tends to cause sore throat and feverish symptoms, followed by a characteristic blotchy pink-red rash…

A Solihull slimmer named Slimming World’s Mr Sleek 2018 has revealed how his impressive weight loss was sparked by a nurse warning him he was obese. Dann Sullivan has shed 5st 2lbs in a year and is training for his first marathon. A nurse who told Dann he was obese offered him 12 weeks of…

11-25 year olds in Solihull can now log on to Kooth for free anonymous mental health support. Solihull Council has commissioned XenZone’s Kooth service, giving local 11-25 year olds access to online counselling and emotional well-being support. The service, commissioned with funds from Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Local Transformation Funding, will run for an…

A pupil from St Alphege C of E Junior School is set to see his design in flowers after winning the annual Love Solihull design competition. Finn, age 9, drew the winning entry on the theme of ‘Our Blue Planet’. His design will be used to transform a flower bed at Malvern Park and highlights…

Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed it is cutting back production at its Castle Bromwich plant because of falling car sales. No cars were produced at the plant for four weeks over Christmas and another two weeks of shutdowns are planned. The company blamed falling sales in the UK – caused by a lack of consumer…

A senior West Midlands Police officer says he is “staggered” that anyone does anything wrong on a bus – because CCTV pictures are so clear nowadays. Detective Inspector Warren Hines of West Midlands Police CID homicide investigation team praised the quality of the CCTV footage used in the case of a fatal stabbing on the…

Pupils from Valley Primary School have scooped a fantastic £1,000 reward towards a project of their choice after being crowned champions of the Touchwood school choir competition 2017. Throughout December, 20 local schools from across the borough took centre stage in the shopping centre’s annual contest in a bid to win the popular title and…

Birmingham and Solihull residents rose to the challenge of recycling a record number of Christmas trees to raise £49,000 for local charity, Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice. 2,630 homes took part in Treecycling – the city’s largest tree recycling scheme – in which the trees were collected from residents’ doorsteps in return for a donation. Over…

A Chelmsley Wood man has been jailed and branded a danger to young girls after he filmed himself having sex with an underage teen in a Travelodge hotel room. Former trucker Paul Cotton tied up and blindfolded the 15-year-old and recorded her without her knowledge. Police had earlier found another girl, of the same age,…