All news by author: Adam Dutton

A court has heard that workers at a hotel in Corby, Northants were left petrified when Romans Vodcics put on a gold face mask and walked through the bar with a Glock pistol-like firearm

The baby was admitted to the neonatal unit with suspected sepsis – where the body attacks itself in response to an infection - as well as respiratory issues, before tragically dying

Neil Hughes, 62, literally took planes, trains and automobiles to get from his home on the west coast of Scotland to Stourbridge in the West Midlands

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Chloe Fisher, 15, of Stourbridge, West Mids, had blood gushing from her wounds - and was rushed to hospital where a scan revealed the blade narrowly missed her skull

The civil enforcement officer was attacked after he handed out the fine for an illegally parked van. Violent incidents towards parking officers are on the rise

Jelaine Scott, 36, was caught attempting to hook money from behind a screen at Hyson Green Post Office in Nottingham on February 10 and was handed a community order

A proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone bought for just 13p at a second-hand bookshop has been sold for more than £14,000 due to a misspelling on its inside cover

Gemma Cantillon spent 25 years working her way to the top of several large multi-national companies but she sacked it all in to change career to something completely different

Historic Wigmore Castle, in Herefordshire, is now being offered for £450,000 after failing to attract a buyer since going on the market six months ago - and is cheaper than a house in London

Shannon Grant, 27, was caught on CCTV buying cable ties that he would later use to strangle Natasha Morais, 40 to death in her own home, before making off with her card and phone

With more than 25,000 potholes reported last year alone, residents say they're 'fed up' of being forced to travel along crumbling roads and falling apart pavements

The "bizarre team" of Antoinette Sheppard, 44, and Kieron Spicer, 16, battered 'kind and gentle' Michael Brady to death before hiding his remains in a TV box in a garden shed in Coventry

Drivers were left baffled when the markings appeared overnight in Hereford, with one saying the city is 'fast becoming a laughing stock'

Steven Drinkwater was branded 'callous' after pocketing thousands of pounds from vulnerable mourners while working at a Wolverhampton funeral home before trying to evade justice

Mason has been rejected thousands of times since being abandoned in 2019 - he is searching for his forever home whilst he continues his lengthy stay at Hilbrae Rescue Kennels

Wally David Beaney, Louise Smith, Maria Smith and Charlotte Lauren Byron were jailed for making money by breeding dogs but failing to provide appropriate medical care to them

The neighbourhood of Digbeth in Birmingham is 'no longer a trendy place - but a bit of a dump', according to one local who doesn't feel safe going out after dark

Liz, a then 20-year-old law student at a top university, was attacked and held at knifepoint by a sick predator who marched her into the dark and raped her - but she's never given up her pursuit of justice

The criminals were jailed for a total of 54 years after footage emerged of them using hammers, knives, and even an axe to threaten a number of businesses across the West Midlands

Flora Steel purchased the silver brooch 35 years ago not realising it was a 'historically significant' piece of jewellery dating back to the 19th Century - and was worth big money

Parents Amber Cutts and Lee Clayton have described their "worst imaginable nightmare" after one-month-old Orla suffered a cardiac arrest and died after medics made "an error"

Antonio Tibere, 25, went on a 10-minute rampage as he prowled Handsworth in Birmingham three days before Christmas last year - and has now been jailed for 30 years

Derbyshire Police has released a CCTV image of mum Aminat pushing a buggy along the street after she disappeared with six-week-old baby in the Chaddesden area on Wednesday afternoon

A mum managed to pull her two year old daughter to safety seconds before her pram was crushed underneath a car in a heart-stopping incident captured on CCTV

Brits have slammed the UK's biggest German Christmas market based in Birmingham after they calculated that it is cheaper to fly to Frankfurt to experience the real thing