All news by author: Harry Leach

Deen Adam was bemused to open a letter from an agency, working on behalf of Birmingham City Council, demanding he pay the authority £514 for alleged missed payments in 2006.

Samad Ali stole more than 500 times from 40 stores in the West Midlands between October 2022 and April last year

Shaf Ahmed, from Birmingham, went to hospital after experiencing pins and needles, seizures and speech loss - when he mentioned he'd recently received a Covid vaccination he was taken for a CT scan

Lift engineer Lewis McFarlin, 24, was crushed to death while working to repair a lift at Müller's Market Drayton factory in Staffordshire - with mum Leah Salt speaking of her heartbreak

Kevin Watts, 42, says he is lucky to be alive after being wedged under his car and propelled onto the road after a thief tried to steal his Vauxhall at a supermarket petrol station

A dad from Stockton-on-Tees who famously had Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby inked on his rear end has admitted he still has 'no regrets' amid affair scandal

A hilarious clip shows Daniel Walker waiting outside Indian Streatery, in Birmingham, before shouting his invite to Prince William, who responded to the laughter across the crowd

Paul, from Erdington in Birmingham, was visiting Saint-Malo to help a group of friends renovate a house in April 2007 but sadly, never arrived

Sophie Jain Fletcher, 15, was hit by the bus in Sheaf Lane, Sheldon, at around 3pm on March 18 and was rushed to hospital where sadly she was pronounced dead

Sean O'Callaghan's flight from Belfast to Birmingham was cancelled due to heavy snow on March 9 and he claims easyJet left his family 'stranded' overnight, forced to sleep on the floor

Elizabeth Garrett says she returned from hospital to find British Gas subcontractors had taken her door off its hinges - and workers even made themselves a cup of tea as they force-fitted the meter

Steve Perrin regularly treats three-year-old Milo to a packet of 50p Transform-A-Snacks when he collects him from nursery - but claims the dodgy packet left him 'distraught'

Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley, West Midlands, was closed down after a one-year-old boy died on December 9 last year. Police are treating the death as suspicious

Social media users have slammed a dog owner, after a picture of a pooch chained to a pole was shared on Twitter, as people say they cannot "understand how humans can treat animals this way"