Britons have been told to dust off their coats for the first time since winter as temperatures are set to plummet as low as 10C in parts of the UK – 5C below the seasonal average. A 500-mile wide ‘polar plunge’ has swept in for the August bank holiday making it feel colder, but also … Read more
A customer adviser for Lloyds bank sold customers’ account details to her friend who was a gambling addict. Jaspreet Marwaha, from Birmingham, gave the information of more than 80 accounts to Mohammed Saif Maqsood, from Blackburn, who paid £50 for each set of card details and swiped between £82,000 and £92,000 from them. At one point the … Read more
Plummeting temperatures could make the bank holiday weekend one of the coldest on record, coming just days after the UK experienced record-breaking heat. Huge downpours and 80mph winds from Storm Francis battered the UK earlier this week, with cold northerly winds gripping the country over the next few days. But party goers were out in force … Read more
A 20-year-old who went to stay with a no-nonsense pensioner for a unique experiment has told how she decided to take part because she wanted to dispel the ‘misconception’ among the older generation that people ‘have it easier when they’re younger.’ The Channel 4 programme, Lodgers for Codgers, sees pensioners who live alone paired with … Read more
Property empire worth £17million gets seized by ‘Britain’s FBI’ after eight-year probe into a drug trafficking kingpins Terraced houses and industrial premises among 59 addresses targeted by NCA Properties were purchased with what investigators described as ‘dirty money’ More than half in the student area of Selly Oak with others in Northern Ireland By Helena Kelly For … Read more
Man, 50, is arrested on suspicion of murder after body of elderly man is found in freezer at tip The body of an elderly man was found inside the freezer in Exhall, Warwickshire It had been moved from a Birmingham flat by a housing association Man, 50, believed to be known to the victim, was … Read more
Police chiefs fear up to 35 illegal raves organised across London in place of the cancelled Notting Hill Carnival could cause chaos this bank holiday weekend. Officers are concerned they will have bottles pelted at them as they try to break up the parties – many of which have been branded the ‘real Notting Hill … Read more
Nine out a 10 people in England live in areas that have not seen a Covid-19 case in a month and new lockdowns are not needed, an expert has said. Professor John Clancy, from Birmingham University, has warned that fears of another shutdown are based on ‘dodgy data.’ Writing in a blog, he said: ”91 … Read more
Three men are arrested by police as detectives continue to quiz girl, 15, and a 28-year-old woman after man is stabbed to death on a road in Birmingham 15-year-old girl and 28-year-old woman arrested after man died from stabbing West Midlands Police called 5pm on Saturday after man found with stab wounds The victim was … Read more
Police break up illegal rave attended by 300 revellers in Huddersfield while officers in Birmingham are called to more than 70 parties – as organisers of illegal gatherings face £10,000 fines from next weekend Birmingham Police were called to more than 70 unlicensed gatherings last night One in Northfield, on the outskirts of the city, … Read more