All news by author: Stephanie Balloo

An array of pink, orange, yellow and white bouquets were seen beside two heart-shaped balloons in Elmdon Country Park in Solihull, West Midlands, where the body of "beautiful" Juliette Ryan was discovered on Friday at 10am

Homeless dad-of-two Andrew Reynolds, who last week helped save a drowning man in a selfless act of bravery, has been forced to live in his car for the last six months

Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag

In a last-ditch attempt to extend his life through private treatment, a GoFundMe page was established to raise £80,000 - and nearly £30,000 has already been raised

Rebecca Smith, 41, who was working at Lyndon School in Solihull, West Midlands, engaged in a sexual relationship with a former pupil who was under 18 after exchanging phone numbers

Warning graphic images. A woman said she was bitten by an "out of control" dog in Birmingham that left her arm bleeding heavily, and the owner ran off when she and her husband said they would call the police

Harmony Dugmore, 22, from Lichfield, in living with her children in a property so affected by mould a paramedic wrote a letter expressing concern about their health

Adam Ali, 17, would “likely still be here today” had the tumour been caught in time - but tests to spot the cancer were botched on three separate occasions

CCTV footage shows burglars breaking into a family home before locking the driver's daughter inside her room - before ransacking the house and stealing anything they could find

Charline Edwards suffered spinal injuries after a freak accident on holiday in Cape Verde, and would need to pay £40'000 to return home on a medically-assisted flight

Charline Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, has been left unable to walk and will need a flight that will allow her to lie on a stretcher after she was hit by a freak wave in Cape Verde

Jerome Foulger says the incident at a bus stop in the Northfield area of Birmingham has left him a changed man after he claimed the teen "came at me like an animal"

Kalie Bishop has been issued a heartbreaking prognosis after being told she has metastatic cancer - it comes less than a year after the mum underwent gruelling breast cancer surgery

Paul Mitchell, who notoriously ran onto the pitch during an Aston Villa derby in 2019, was found dead in his home earlier this year - now an inquest has shed more light on the tragedy

A child was 'grappled to the floor by a bulldog' in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham yesterday. Paramedics rushed to the scene to assess the kid and cops seized the dog

The parents in Bartley Green. Birmingham, clubbed together to buy the £600 trampoline to keep their kids away from the roads - now the council says they don't want to risk being sued over it

Sharon Clarke, from Longbridge, Birmingham, complained to property developers St Mowden, which said 'no obvious hazards' were found at the site where Sharon fell

Victoria Holcombe is a sex worker in Birmingham and has spoken out about the city’s sex industry, revealing the calls she gets from 'paedophiles', physical abuse she's faced and tear-jerking stories of some of her clients

A violent gang broke into a family's home in Alum Rock, Birmingham, and beat up the three children inside, including spraying a cleaning product into their eyes

One dad in the Druids Heath crime hotspot keeps a weapon in the doorway and has cameras covering every angle, while other residents say that they are too scared to walk their own streets

Consultant podiatrist Abid Hussain has warned Brits about the dangerous laughing gas trend that is 'plaguing' parts of Britain as he has seen patients develop severe symptoms