A new four-year research project, awarded £1.4 million funding from the Wellcome Trust, will explore the past, present and future of charitable fundraising for health care. Source
Residents in receipt of Council Tax Support will automatically receive £150 off their council tax bill and have instalments deferred as part of the latest measures to relieve financial pressure. Using the £17.4 million Council Tax Hardship Fund which was provided by the Government in response to COVID-19, Birmingham City Council will automatically apply the […]
More than 7,000 clinically vulnerable people across Birmingham are receiving a weekly food parcel as part of the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Around half of these are currently being provided by the city council while the national service reaches full capacity. Current there are 7,395 citizens on the clinically shielded list who are […]
WM Police are searching for seven-year-old Denis Beran who disappeared yesterday morning (Wednesday 29 April) in Birmingham. Denis was taken to a local shop on Hagley Road by his father at around 10am, but he was not returned back to his mother, who has full parental responsibility. WM Police are therefore seeking any information on […]
A Coventry woman who broke into a doctor’s car and stole his belongings last week has been jailed. Sabrina Moustakim, of Hastings Road in Stoke, was captured on CCTV on Wednesday 22 April stealing a bag containing a doctor’s bank cards and his NHS ID. The key worker had popped into a local pharmacy on […]
A teenager has been charged with the murder of Karl Gallagher, who was stabbed to death in Smethwick. Tyrell Harris, 19, of Helvellyn Way, West Bromwich, has been remanded in custody to appear before Wolverhampton magistrates tomorrow (Thursday). Mr Gallagher died of a single stab wound to the chest after an altercation at the West […]
WM Police are investigating one of their officers who stopped a teenager who was seen acting suspiciously. The 15-year-old was told he would be stopped and searched under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Melbourne Avenue, Newtown, at around 5pm on 21 April. He refused to co-operate and is alleged to have elbowed the officer […]
