The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has won a High Court challenge against the Home Office’s plan to scrap his role ahead of local elections in May. The powers of the PCC, who oversees West Midlands Police, were set to be merged with the office of West Midlands...
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Tom Daley helped Great Britain’s mixed team win the first gold medal at the Diving World Cup in Berlin. Daley, Jack Laugher, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, and Scarlett Mew Jensen finished top with 461.15 points. Germany placed second with 430.75 points, and Italy came third with 419.60. Daley performed two synchro dives...
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A £19.2 million programme to improve Coventry’s roads and build new cycle lanes is set to begin later this year, Coventry City Council has confirmed. The plans include a £2.3 million cycle lane in Coventry city centre, a £2.2 million route linking Coundon to Keresley and a £500k link to...
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The Traitors is a fresh, exciting take on reality TV, with viewership surpassing stale formats like I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here. A record eight million people tuned in to watch Harry be crowned the winner of The Traitors. I was initially apprehensive that The Traitors would fail to live up to the success of...
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Pop-up clinics have opened across Coventry to boost vaccination rates against measles, as the West Midlands experiences its highest number of measles cases since the mid-1990s. Vaccination clinics will be hosted in all secondary schools in Coventry and in 21 primary schools. They will offer two doses of the Measles,...
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Female students at the University of Manchester have been left in ‘fear for their safety’ after three male students launched an anti-abortion society. The Manchester Pro-Life Society was established on January 11. A spokesperson said it was “not an anti-abortion society but a pro-life society”, with the aim of promoting...
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