The owners of street food eatery Indian Brewery are opening a second restaurant in Solihull. Indian Brewery will open on Station Road in August, near the Turtle Bay eatery. The Solihull venue, which can seat up to 50 people, will have more of a “family friendly feel”, according to co-owner Jaspal Purewal. Jaspal told BirminghamLive:…

On Friday 16th February, two parents from Solihull were fined a total of £1,434 for their children’s unauthorised absences from school. A father was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates Court after he allowed his child to take one week’s unauthorised leave of absence from Fordbridge Community Primary School. SMBC stated that it’s ‘the council’s first successful…

An elderly Solihull woman conned out of more than £60,000 turned the tables on her cruel tricksters by luring them back with the promise of more money – and led them right into a West Midlands Police trap! The 92-year-old was stung in a so called ‘Courier Fraud’ after a conman called her home posing…

Lord Forsyth, chairman of Secure Trust Bank, presented a £17,600 cheque to Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice this week, to help support local families living with terminal illness. Big-hearted staff at Secure Trust Bank – which is headquartered in Solihull – raised the impressive amount and Lord Forsyth was invited to present the funds on Valentine’s…

Two teenagers have been charged over an armed street robbery in Solihull during which a man was threatened with a meat cleaver. It’s alleged the male youths – aged 16 and 17 – threatened a 64-year-old man as he walked in Manor Park Road, Castle Bromwich, just after 8pm on Tuesday. The man was unhurt…

As students wait to hear from universities with offers for study this autumn, five at The Sixth Form College, Solihull have already heard and are celebrating offers from Oxbridge. Four current students and one ex-student have been successful in their applications to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge this year. Former Light Hall School students…

West Midlands Police are to close and sell off 24 buildings in a bid to save money for investment in frontline officers. Many of the buildings facing the axe are former police stations, which were closed to the public several years ago and most are being used as offices for staff. Only two on the…

Anne Bill, 62, from Dorridge lived with an undiagnosed, rare and dangerous heart condition for over 30 years, during which time she had two children and pursued a career as a primary school teacher. Anne received a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition where the left chamber of the heart becomes stretched and muscles weaken…

“I’m not living in a bubble, I know there are parts of Chelmsley Wood that are bad but I love living here.” Meet Victoria Cox, a very contented north Solihull resident. The 32-year-old moved to Chelmsley Wood from Reading four years ago. She was so angry by the latest Public Health Annual Report from Solihull…

Solihull Council has donated £5,000 raised from the recycling of metals from cremations at Robin Hood and Woodlands to Acorns Children’s Hospice. A cheque was handed over by Councillor Tony Dicicco, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Stronger Communities and Partnerships, to one of the charity’s community fundraising officers Joanne Danaher at a ceremony earlier today…