The Latest Breaking News from West Midlands

Running as a ‘pseudo-independent’ in a region in which Labour faced its own hurdles was not enough to keep Tory mayor in office

Tory incumbent’s hopes of a third term in the role dashed after close contest with multiple recounts

Labour’s West Midlands candidate says it’s time for a fresh start as he vows to create 150,000 new jobs

Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands

West Midlands mayor and Scottish Conservatives openly question PM’s position that donor’s apology to Diane Abbott closed matter

A woman, 33, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the West Midlands death

Andy Street has asked HS2 Ltd to keep haul tracks for path linking Birmingham and Coventry

Excelr8, which carried Tom Ingram to the 2022 crown, has moved its squad of four Hyundai i30 N Fastbacks into Dynamics’ facility in Droitwich, from which the West Midlands operation won a total of six BTCC overall titles with Honda machinery in the hands of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden.

Avtar Singh Khanda’s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North America

Andy Street said the police and crime commissioner model was ‘not holding West Midlands Police well enough to account to drive down crime’.

Andy Street said plans to axe the HS2 line from Birmingham to Manchester came ‘out of the blue’.