Report Shows Sharp Decline in Birmingham Youth Employment
According to statistics revealed by a Birmingham City Council report, the amount of young people claiming unemployment benefits has undergone a steep decline since 2012.
Four years ago there were 14,450 people seeking benefits. This has now dropped to 5965.
This...
Birmingham to get new student apartments for city centre
Almost 300 new
students bedrooms are to be constructed on derelict land near Birmingham City. Developers eye derelict land near Aston and Birmingham City
universities for an supplementary student project.
New plans have been unwrapped to...
Mum’s Fury At Heartlands Hospital
Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital A&E has been slammed by a patient’s daughter after her mum had to wait for fourteen hours before seeing a doctor.
Daughter Sibka Minhas took her 69-year-old mother - who suffers from dementia - to the A&E...
Move Government Jobs To Coventry
Labour MP for Coventry North West, Geoffrey Robinson has proposed the idea of moving all government jobs to Coventry which he believes will help get the ball rolling on the £100million Friargate scheme next to Coventry Railway Station.
Friargate has...
Tough Action on illegal Car Racers
West Midlands Police has vowed to take firm action against any street racers involved.
On Sunday 14 July, traffic cops and officers from the Operational Support Unit including police drone pilots police broke-up an illegal car cruise gathering in Birmingham...
Uncollected Bin Bags Hurled Across Streets in Winson Green
Piles of uncollected bin bags were thrown on to the streets by locals leaving the area scattered with rubbish.
Traffic was blocked on Thursday night by the torn bin bags and their contents, which were strewn across pavements and roads.
A...
Fly-tipping Costs Taxpayers £58m
At a cost of £58m, more than one million incidents of fly-tipping were dealt with by councils in England in 2016-17.
It was the fourth year in a row that incidents increased.
Around 56,000 fixed penalty notices were handed out by...
Hospital Worker Awarded For Helping Junior Doctor Against Abuse and Racism
Hospital worker from the Black Country has been awarded for her efforts around diversity and inclusion after she convinced a junior doctor who was racially abused to speak out.
Neelam Mehay, has been at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust's Freedom...
Expectant Mother Stabbed
40-year-old woman left in critical condition in broad daylight knife attack
A heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed in public has thanked those “fearless” individuals who risked their lives to ensure her safety and that of her unborn daughter.
The 40-year-old...
Dad-of-three Jailed after pleading to Judge
A dad-of-three jailed for 28 months who was caught with cocaine pleaded with the judge not to be sent to jail for the sake of his young family.
Abdul Kahir aged 42, was caught with drugs as he vacuumed his...
