A Pakistani cricketer who hit his wife with his bat and made her drink bleach has been spared jail - clearing his way to play for Leicestershire, a court heard.

Violence, self-harm and drug use has increased at an immigration removal centre according to the chief inspector of prisons. The findings follow an unannounced inspection of the 392-room Morton Hall near Lincoln.

A former chairman of governors at a school embroiled in the Trojan Horse plot “espoused” an “intolerant and narrow faith-based ideology”, a tribunal was told.

A Birmingham taxi driver has been landed with a court bill of over £1,000 for refusing to take a blind passenger and his guide dog in his cab.

A teenager has been jailed for 14 years after pulling out a shotgun and shooting a motorist in a horrifying road rage attack in Birmingham.

A man who used a James Bond-style USB cufflink to store extremist data has admitted five charges of terrorism.

Hateful sermons from an extremist preacher who tried to whip up tensions in Birmingham are still online - despite being ‘flagged’ to YouTube more than a year ago. Abu Haleema called members of Small Heath’s Muslim community “cowards” in one...

A drunken dad has been jailed for spitting at cabin crew and threatening to rape a fellow passenger on a Birmingham-bound flight.

A police investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a teenager who was found hanged at his home has concluded that no bullying took place in the months before his death.

The heartbroken mum of a schoolboy killed by a speeding taxi driver bravely agreed to release harrowing CCTV footage of the crash that claimed his life - to encourage others to wear seatbelts.