The former boss of Birmingham Dogs Home has been charged with fraud following a year long police investigation into allegations of missing donations. Simon Price, of Somerton Drive, Marston Green, was initially arrested on suspicion of theft. The charity’s former chief executive has been charged with 11 offences of fraud by abuse of position and…

The wife of Solihull murder victim Giovanni Lewis has made an emotional appeal for help in catching the killer who stabbed her husband through the heart a year ago. Giovanni was stabbed in Kingshurst’s Hadfield Way on 18th October 2016. The 28-year-old died later in hospital. Despite a number of appeals and a Crimestoppers reward,…

A collision on the M42 in the early hours of this morning has left one man with serious leg injuries. The incident happened on the M42 between junctions 3a and 4, near Hockley Heath, shortly before 2.30am (Friday 20th October). Emergency services attended the scene – including an ambulance, a paramedic officer and the MERIT…

The Royal Star & Garter Homes has launched a day care service – the ‘Star & Garter Club’. The service welcomes tri-service veterans of HM Armed Forces and their partners to the charity’s award-winning Solihull Home. The charity has drawn upon its wealth of experience in providing residential care to establish a complete day care…

A Solihull mum has revealed how her toddler son helped save the life of his older brother battling leukaemia – by donating his own bone marrow and umbilical cord. Joshua Nicholson was first diagnosed with the cancer in August 2014 at the age of five, but the football-mad youngster later recovered following treatment. Sadly, he…

National Express West Midlands engineers have been doing pioneering work to clean up the region’s air. The bus company has fitted new green technology into hundreds of its older buses to catch harmful particulates and NOx gases. It takes a team of two engineers around six hours to fit a filter and a selective catalytic…

The Bannatyne Health Club and Spa in Solihull is celebrating 20 years of bringing health and fitness facilities to the local area. Located on Saintbury Drive, the club joined The Bannatyne Group in 2006, following the £90m acquisition of the LivingWell health club chain from Hilton Hotels Corporation. The health club, which has more than…

The heartbroken uncle of murder victim Callum Lees told how his family is backing a petition calling for greater sentences for knife killers and said: “We are broken.” The much-loved 20-year-old was stabbed in the neck in Hopwas Grove, Kingshurst, in the early hours of 6th August. He was found collapsed in nearby Haselour Road…

This year’s Poppy Appeal Campaign was launched on Monday 9th October by the Mayor and Mayoress of Solihull, Councillor Stuart Davis and Mrs Sarah Walker, at the Solihull war memorial outside St Alphege Church. Poppies will be on sale around the borough from Thursday 26th October, in the run up to Remembrance Sunday which falls…

Police have launched a probe into reports a teenager was asked for the time before being savagely beaten in Solihull. The victim, aged just 15, was robbed of his mobile phone and bus pass. He was walking near the tunnel by the pond in Tudor Grange Park around 4.15pm on Monday (9th October). He was…