Police updates
The latest news and appeals from all the Midland police forces.
The latest news and appeals from all the Midland police forces.
Two men have died in two separate house fires in Stoke and Oldbury this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service were called to a properties in Oakfield Road, Oldbury and Old School Lane, Stoke just before 9.50 am.
WMAS responded to two separate house fires in Oldbury and Stoke at approximately the same time this morning.
Despite the efforts of medics at both of these locations, two patients were confirmed dead at the scene of the incidents.
A promising teenage athlete has been jailed for four years following a string of gunpoint robberies in a Birmingham park in June last year.
West Midlands Police have released footage of the high speed pursuit of a Wolverhampton gang member who stole almost £40,000 in cigarettes.
A robber from Birmingham who took a picture of his stairs carpeted with all the cash he had stolen has been jailed for eight years.