A university student who suspected she had food poisoning from a New Year’s Day party was later given the bombshell news she had an incurable brain tumour. Charlotte Green, from Solihull, was bed-bound with sickness and vomiting in the first week of January 2014 and assumed she had food poisoning. For the next few months…

British number three tennis player Dan Evans has announced that he tested positive for cocaine in April. The 27-year-old, from Solihull, claims he took the illegal substance out of competition and for reasons ‘completely unrelated to tennis’. He called an impromptu press conference at the Novotel hotel in London this afternoon: “This is a very…

Three of Britain’s best-loved sportsmen put their skills to the test in an inflatable charity challenge, raising £3,000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Organised and hosted by Resorts World Birmingham, in association with the Icons of Football 2017 golf tournament, the event saw Paul Ince, Robbie Fowler and Darren Clarke kick and tee off in an…

A contractor has died in what is being described as an industrial accident while working at the Solihull Jaguar Land Rover plant. The air ambulance was called out to the scene but nothing could be done to save the victim, who has not yet been named. The man had been injured and was in cardiac…

Residents of a Solihull suburb have slammed the owner of an ice cream van for chiming the tune from the children’s nursery rhyme London’s Burning. Residents of Olton have branded using the music, which was played extensively over the weekend, as “inappropriate” in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. The issue was highlighted on…

Jaguar Land Rover has announced another jobs boost with plans to recruit 5,000 new employees. It has emerged the manufacturing giant wants to bring in engineers and technical staff over the next 12 months as part of its drive to deliver the cars of the future. The expansion would see Jaguar Land Rover boost its…

Stratford-upon-Avon College has announced that it plans to merge with Solihull College & University Centre. The target date for the merger is 1st January 2018. John Callaghan, Principal and Chief Executive at Solihull College & University Centre, said: “I am very pleased that we have been selected by SUAC as their merger partner. “We each…

A car service centre based in Monkspath Business Park in Solihull, which opened three years ago, has beaten hundreds of other automotive service and repair businesses across the UK to the title of ‘Garage of the Year 2017′. The trophy was awarded to MotorServ-UK at Europe’s largest automotive aftermarket exhibition, Automechanika, which was held at…

Three men will appear before court charged with an attempted robbery at the West Bromwich Building Society in Knowle on Friday 9th June. Officers were called to the Station Road branch at around 5pm and three men were arrested a short time later at the Silhillians Sports Club on Warwick Road. Khalid Radman, aged 26…

Police received an emergency call at 5pm today (9th May) to reports that three gunmen were inside the West Bromwich Building Society in Station Road, Knowle. Following a pursuit through Knowle, Solihull and a small stretch of the M42 the men abandoned their white Renault Clio in the car park of Silhillian Sports Club in…