The crime commissioner has doubled to eight the number of speed-check vans in the region.

Army bomb disposal experts are called to the scene on Thursday.

Desie Dalton-Byrne, 21, from Erdington, has been jailed for five years and six months.

Labour's Paulette Hamilton says "we can't take nurses from abroad in the same number anymore".

The railway bridge on Summer Road in Erdington was hit three times in the first week of January.

Plans will allow the Birmingham secondary school to provide an extra 150 places overall.

Passengers are warned of cancellations or delays after two lorries strike the same bridge.

West Midlands Police launch Operation Fearless in Erdington before it is expanded to other areas.