A mother has criticised a judge’s decision to cut the minimum sentence to be served by the woman who stabbed her son to death.

A Muslim scholar has visited Leicester to discuss and share ideas about how to address extremism.

The trial of an Oldham mother-of-five alleged to have accepted more than £100,000 in benefit payments, was dramatically halted when she changed her plea to guilty.

A robber who was high on drugs and drink when he carried out two knife-point raids has been jailed for five years.

One of Birmingham’s best-known food firms has been fined £24,000 over its “filthy” premises.

Police have released a shocking image of a restaurant worker left with a bleed on the brain after he was attacked by three masked men with a baseball bat in a busy Birmingham street.

A jewellery firm has been fined thousands of pounds for the illegal sale of unhallmarked gold following a probe by Birmingham consumer watchdogs.

Officials are drawing up plans for a fortnight long "Diwali Leicester" festival in November.

A disgraced West Midlands Police officer who led a secret double life as a ringleader of a sex-and-drugs racket has been told by top judges he deserves every day of his seven years and two months jail term.

A multimillionaire’s son has been jailed for a second time after he got involved in a brutal fight. Antonio Boporan Singh, 28, was given a one-year prison sentence on Friday for punching and kicking a man when he was down after a night out.