A homeless man who went berserk with a claw hammer on a Birmingham bus filled with passengers has been sent to jail.

When a gambling addict failed to get a job at a Birmingham bookies, he held it up at gunpoint instead, making off with £17,000.

A Rochdale businessman, who pocketed nearly £1.25 million from two VAT frauds, has been ordered to repay almost £400,000 or face another four years in jail after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

A drug dealer who read hundreds of books in jail to learn how to carry out an elaborate £1m tax scam has been ordered to pay back nearly £400,000 of his ill-gotten gains.

A Leicester taxi driver has been fined for refusing to take a blind man and his guide dog - due to his allergy to animal hair. Gul Nazim Ahmadzai drove off from his passenger when he saw the man was accompanied by an assistance dog in December...

A man stabbed to death near his home in what police are calling a "brutal attack" has been named locally as mini bus driver Sajad Hussain. The 40-year-old victim was attacked in Tenby Road, Moseley, Birmingham just after 10.50pm on Sunday night....

A teenager who went to a young man’s home and threatened to kill him while armed with a large samurai-style knife was given a suspended detention sentence.

Organisers of Big John's Birmingham Mela have been inundated with complaints after badly parked cars blocked roads and driveways around Cannon Hill Park - leaving residents fuming. They have now pledged to look at the problem and take action...

A new national campaign to raise awareness of how more ethnic minority communities can pursue a professional sports career is being launched in Leicester.

A group of Muslim men attacked strangers because they were white “non-Muslims” in a drunken rampage through a city centre.