A father of four from Bolton fell victim to the Saudi crane crash, mere hours after arriving in the city for his first pilgrimage to Mecca. A private hire driver, Qasim Akram (32), was killed when a construction crane fell through the Grand...

The Queen's personal representative in Birmingham, Paul Sabapathy (72), has resigned after making suggestions that the British Pakistanis needed to be taught “basic common courtesy and civility.”

It has been alleged that police officer, PC Amar Hussain (29), as well as two other men have been charged with conspiracy offences over “false and malicious” claims in 2014, that a police officer was was to be kidnapped in a terrorist plot.

A man who tried to meet an under-age girl in Hinckley for sex after overstaying his student visa has been jailed. In fact the girl did not exist, and her online profile had been created by a Leicestershire-based vigilante group which snared...

A Birmingham delivery driver is to stand trial after his parked-up van rolled across a pub car park and onto a pavement, killing a passing pensioner.

Faruk Patel, aged 39 from Leicester, appeared in Leicester Crown Court charged with alleged gross negligence and manslaughter following the death of a worker on a building site. The victim Tasadaq Ur-Rehman, age 40 who also lived in Leicester...

Masalas, a Leicester Indian restaurant and takeaway has won the prize at the English Curry Awards 2015, naming it the best curry takeaway in the country. Abdul Khaled, Rafique Miah and Shafiq Miah run Masalas express their joy at the good news. Abdul...

The family of the hotelier Ranjit Singh Power, who was killed on a business trip to India, have set up a charity in his name. The charity will support a variety of people from the vulnerable children to the elderly all across the world.

All over the midlands from Bradford to Birmingham there has been protests in a desperate plea to the government to let the Syrian refugees into the country. This massive movement had been sparked by the picture of the drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi....

Ikhlaq Mahmood, 44, was attacked by a knifeman at his business in Bradford, suffering severe injuries to his face, hands and back during the incident at his halal meat and takeaway shop in Bradford Road, Frizinghall. He is now in a stable condition...