All news by author: Ben Perrin

The Jet2 plane was travelling back to the UK when It was diverted and made an emergency landing at Faro Airport in Portugal after reports that smoke appeared due to a fault

Pictures from the scene in Birmingham show the mangled minibus with severe damage to the vehicle's nearside after it hit a lamp post with 14 children travelling inside

CCTV captured the horrific moment Ihtisham Khan, 21, knifed the victim who was sat in his friend’s car on Ellesmere Road, Alum Rock in Birmingham

Emergency services rushed to Kidderminster Hospital in Worcestershire following unconfirmed reports of a 'chemical leak' - but it is understood that nobody needed medical treatment

People in Handsworth, Birmingham, are begging authorities, including housing association Midland Heart, to take action as the rubbish has piled up outside the building

Mustafa Nadeem, aged 12, died after colliding with a pedestrian and then falling into the path of a bus in Birmingham with horrified passengers shouting to the driver to stop, an inquest heard

John Keet invested profits from a career dealing cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines into building and managing the lab in Henley-in-Arden, a quaint market town in Warwickshire

West Midlands Police force have issued images of the man, who officers believe may have been the driver of a BMW that collided with a Toyota on Cooks Lane in Solihull, last year

A 18-year-old footballer and his family have been left traumatised after he was kidnapped after leaving nightclub Lab11 in Digbeth and taken on a three-hour terror attack around Birmingham

Police officers rushed to reports of a disorder on Slade Road in Birmingham, where they arrested five teenage girls on suspicion of criminal damage, assault and affray

West Midlands Police have said a man has been arrested after they responded to a distress call on Wednesday in which one of their officers was stabbed in the shoulder. The incident occurred in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham

Despicable graffiti, including 'p*** scum out', 'dead', and 'ISIS out' appeared on an outside wall, window, door, back gate and paving slab at the family home in Birmingham on Monday