An ambitious five-year Business Plan to help bring £550,000 of investment into Shirley town centre has been unveiled. The document has been drawn up by the proposed Business Improvement District (BID) for the Stratford Road corridor and developed through a year-long consultation process with more than 250 local businesses. A BID is a defined geographical…

New restrictions on late night flights at Birmingham Airport are being introduced to keep noise levels down and minimise disturbance for local residents. Solihull Council’s planning committee has rubber-stamped the proposals, which include a ban on extra late night flights and stopping older aeroplanes with louder engines at late hours. Previous policies covering the airport…

The body of a 14-year-old boy was found on the A45 near Meriden on Mother’s Day, an inquest heard. James Dennis Scott died from multiple injuries and his death is being treated as ‘unexplained’, the Warwickshire hearing was told. His body was discovered in the middle of the A45 between Pickford Green and Meriden on…

Seventy members of community choir Solihull Pop Chorus have just returned from performing in Total Vocal, a sell-out acapella concert in New York’s famous Lincoln Center on Broadway, conducted by Deke Sharon – renowned as the king of acapella and the producer of the three hit Pitch Perfect movies. 2,800 people packed into the stunning…

A fund-raising campaign has been set up for two Solihull children who face losing both their parents within months of each other. Louis, 16, and Ella Maley,14, are grieving from their father’s death three weeks ago and are now facing the sad prospect of losing their mother, who has been given a month to live….

A man from Kingshurst has been charged following the death of a schoolgirl after a collision in Castle Vale last year. Nicholas Buck, aged 53 of Kingshurst Way, will appear before Birmingham Magistrates Court on Thursday (29th March). He is accused of causing death by dangerous driving after 14-year-old Holly Brown died following a collision…

A cleaner has been jailed for 26 weeks for stealing money from a vulnerable 93-year-old woman – after the victim’s son set up a spy camera. Teresa Dejesus, from Solihull, was caught out after the victim’s son became suspicious about money going missing and set up a camera in the bedroom of his mother’s house…

It was celebrations all round as organisers announced the winners of the fourth annual Solihull Together Awards at the Renewal Conference Centre on Thursday 22nd March. The awards ceremony began with a surprise performance by the Birmingham and Solihull Wellbeing Community Choir. The choir promotes and maintains good mental and physical health through singing and…

The Mayor of Solihull, Councillor Stuart Davis, recently welcomed a group of German exchange students from Main-Taunus-Kreis, one of Solihull’s twin towns. The group from Albert-Einstein-Shule, Schwalbach were taking part in the 24th exchange trip with Solihull Sixth Form College. Students from Solihull visited their counterparts in November last year. The students received a personal…

On Friday 23rd March, a Solihull parent was given a 12 month community order following their children’s unauthorised absences from school. The mother was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates Court after her children failed to attend school between September and November 2017. The defendant failed to attend the original court date on 16th February 2018. The…