A student officer has been praised for her bravery in downing a 6ft 4ins burglar with a rugby tackle as he tried fleeing a pensioner’s home.

A programme of highway infrastructure improvements at Perry Barr to support the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and its regeneration legacy are due before the city council’s Cabinet on February 12.

An innovative partnership bringing organisations across Birmingham and Solihull together to help residents to be more active has been awarded £9.72m in National Lottery funding from Sport England.

More lethal firearms – including a loaded ‘Bull Dog’ revolver – have been taken off the streets by West Midlands Police in the space of 12 hours.

West Midlands Police has arrested six people following a series of raids across Birmingham to target benefit fraud.

A Birmingham man who groomed teenage girls in Canada online has been jailed for 40 months.

A cyclist received advanced trauma care by ambulance staff this morning following a collision involving a car in Birmingham.

One man has suffered multiple injuries after a collision between a car and a double decker bus.

A teenager has been arrested over a violent burglary in which a woman was dragged out of her bed at gunpoint by an intruder who broke into her Birmingham home.

A woman who died in a collision in Bearwood last night has been named as Holly Burke, a serving West Midlands Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) who was off duty at the time.