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The latest news, updates and features on the West Midlands – including breaking stories, weather warnings, travel updates and crime news. The West Midlands is a county and wider region in England. The latter covers cities Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton and Worcester, an area known as the Black Country, and counties Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

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Russia-linked DHL warehouse fire left Amazon container ?100% destroyed? Picture: courtesy of The Guardian

Russia-linked DHL warehouse fire in Birmingham left Amazon container ‘100% destroyed’

Channel: UK UK August 15, 2025 By Josh Layton
US hitwoman who dressed in niqab for botched assassination guilty of murder plot

US hitwoman who dressed in niqab for botched assassination guilty of murder plot

Channel: UK UK August 12, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
A Mark 5A train stationed in the countryside.

One of the UK's busiest commuter trains is bringing back first-class travel

Channel: Travel Travel 5 days ago By Eleanor Noyce
A sign for The Crooked House pub and the rubble-covered site now after demolition.

Britain’s wonkiest pub still a 'heartbreaking' ruin targeted by thieves

Channel: UK UK August 2, 2025 By Josh Layton
Josie Copson turning to face the camera in Birmingham, and a night view of the city and canal

My hometown gets so much hate, but it's one of the best cities in the UK

Channel: Travel Travel July 24, 2025 By Josie Copson
Play Video *NOTE TO EDITORS ??? Woman in footage has been charged, blurred set of grabs from video issued as alternative to un-blurred version* Disturbing footage shows a knife-wielding woman wildly swinging a blade while trying to slash a man in the street - before he fended her off with his rucksack. The shocking confrontation was captured on camera in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham after a disturbance between the pair broke out on Friday night (18/7). The woman can be heard racially abusing the Asian male while brandishing a large blade outside a terraced house. The man then picks up a piece of cardboard and begins to strike her with it before she then chases him down the street with the knife. The two can be heard trading insults , calling each other fat, before the woman begins slashing at him with the blade in the middle of the residential street. Photo released 20/07/2025

Woman caught on camera waving knife and yelling racist abuse at man on street

Channel: UK UK July 20, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
(Left) Daniel Drewitt in a football kit and (Right) in his prom suit.

Family pay tribute to 'handsome, funny' teen who drowned in heatwave

Channel: UK UK July 13, 2025 By Jen Mills
Traffic delays on the M42 after police incident.

Major motorway closed in both directions in rush hour after 'police incident'

Channel: UK UK July 10, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
Conrad Byrd. A man has been jailed after we seized almost ??4 million worth of drugs. Release date ??? June 20, 2025. Conrad Byrd was arrested on 14 March this year, after he was stopped by officers from our Traffic team in Kenilworth Road, Balsall Common. Following searches of his vehicle, officers found over 25 kilos of cocaine, with a street value of approximately ??3,800,000. As a result of the drugs being found, further searches were carried out at his home address in Sidcup, Bexley, where further kilos of drugs were found along with cash. Byrd was arrested for conspiring to supply Class A drugs. The 50-year-old admitted that over a three-month period, he conducted multiple trips between the West Midlands and London in order to courier Class A Drugs for an Organised Crime Group. After pleading guilty at Birmingham Crown Court, Byrd was jailed last Friday (13 June) for 13 years and six months.

Drug dealer jailed after police found £3,800,000 of cocaine during traffic stop

Channel: UK UK June 20, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video A CGI visual of the West Yorkshire mass transit system.

Rachel Reeves reveals £15,000,000,000 transport projects - here's what we know

Channel: Politics Politics June 4, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Map shows average savings in different UK regions — how does yours compare?

Channel: Money Money May 29, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams
The scene of the collision where a passenger train crashed into a tractor and trailer.

Train crashes into tractor at level crossing injuring 17 people

Channel: UK UK June 2, 2025 By Jasper King
Telford Town Park

Girl, 13, raped by teenage boy 'last seen at McDonald's'

Channel: UK UK May 7, 2025 By Jasper King
April 11 2025 Police at the scene outside Aston Wood Gold Club in Sutton Coldfield Credit: BirminghamLive/BPM

Woman dies days after being hit by van chased into golf club by police

Channel: UK UK April 16, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Steph Washington. Photo released April 13 2025. A mum-of-three was diagnosed with terminal cancer following a year long delay after bungling medics dismissed her symptoms as an STI. Steph Washington, 38, was left in constant pain with 'classic' cervical cancer symptoms - but was was never offered a smear test and was "repeatedly failed" by the NHS and her GP surgery.She was forced to agonisingly wait more than 12 months for her diagnosis following eight appointments with her doctor and multiple emergency hospital visits.Steph said numerous medical specialists failed to ensure appropriate examinations and tests were carried out to rule out any serious condition back in 2022.

Mum's terminal cancer symptoms dismissed as a STI for a year

Channel: UK UK April 13, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
B D Price in Sedgley, Dudley

Toy shop to close after 160 years run by the same family

Channel: UK UK April 7, 2025 By Danny Rigg
The aftermath of a lorry crash on the M6 near Walsall and Birmingham on traffic camera.

Drivers face 90-minute delays on major motorway after lorry crash

Channel: UK UK March 29, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
Pill press stamp found at Jeremy Road - The multimillion-pound drug manufacturing network that was uncovered by police. Release date ? March 27, 2025. A couple who were ringleaders of a drugs gang selling millions of fake Xanax pills around the world have been jailed for a total of ten years. Brian Pitts, 30, and Katie Harlow, 27, ran an international criminal empire from a luxury villa in Thailand between 2018 and 2019. Up to 11 million counterfeit pills were produced in sheds and garages across the West Midlands before being sold on the dark web via cryptocurrency payments. The gang included family members and friends who sold more ?4 million worth of fake pills across the UK and USA and laundered the profits through bitcoin. The pair were finally caught after a five-year international investigation led by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Ltd. They were arrested when they returned from Thailand in August 2019 with designer clothes and Rolex watches in their luggage. A court heard while the gang made at least ?4 million they could have made more than ?11 million from their illegal operation.

British couple who ran £4,000,000 fake Xanax empire are jailed

Channel: UK UK March 28, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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Great-granddad, 64, pulls out gun on his own granddaughter in row over wife's ashes

Channel: UK UK February 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Hospital ward calls 999 for ambulance to move patient 400 metres 'to replace catheter'

Channel: UK UK January 27, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

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