17+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1156+ words) Savage beatings, cut-throat razor attacks, messages delivered in bruises rather than words and protection rackets that bled residents dry: it might sound like the plot of a gangland film, but this was 1920s Sheffield. Life in the soot-blackened city was unforgiving....

6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (357+ words) There is something in the air in Birmingham and it's not the faint whiff of overflowing wheelie bins. The UK's second city could be about to see the biggest political shake-up in more than a decade. Labour has been in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (191+ words) Crews have been dealing with a fire at an industrial estate which has been affecting traffic on the M25. Hertfordshire Fire Service is asking people to avoid the area around Station Approach and Waltham Cross railway station due to the warehouse…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (224+ words) BBC Radio WM's Birmingham political reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn has journeyed along the route from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, via West Bromwich, asking passengers for their thoughts ahead of the. .. Election tram talk: Midlands Metro passengers on bin strike Birmingham's ongoing bin…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (582+ words) A 14-year-old boy shot dead in south-east London has been named as Eghosa Ogbebor. Officers received reports of a shooting on Lord Warwick Street, Woolwich, at about 15: 40 BST on Thursday. The boy was treated by paramedics but died at the…...

4+ day, 12+ min ago  (301+ words) A scaffolding roof will be installed to protect a 16th Century timber-framed building that was badly damaged by fire in January. Perches House in Shrewsbury, which was uninsured, is Grade II listed and has been described by Shropshire Council as "amongst…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1120+ words) Warning: This story contains distressing content For busy mum Masi Sibanda, 9 December 2022 started like any other day. She dropped off her only son, 14-month-old Noah, at Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley and returned home believing he was safe with his…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (170+ words) Commuters are facing long delays after overhead wire problems resulted in train services being cancelled or delayed. Services running to and from London Liverpool Street to Norwich, Ipswich and several Essex stations have been affected. The cause was a fault…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (591+ words) Having been stuck in his north London flat for four weeks after the building's only lift broke, resident George Grimshaw said he had "lost his zest". The 28-year-old is one of a number of disabled residents unable to leave their…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (395+ words) Detectives have released footage of the moment a burglary crime gang were arrested. The gang of five men targeted more than 40 homes across the Midlands and the north of England - some of which they had found on property website Rightmove....