The Latest Breaking News from Midlands

St James’s Park in central London records highest reading, with health alerts in place across the Midlands, eastern and southern England

Activists forecast margins of fewer than 2,000 votes separating them from Farage’s party – or even a shock defeat

Train driver strikes in England bring more disruption; Sweden’s Riksbank cuts rates for first time in eight years

Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater Manchester

This Town depicts the emerging music scene in the Midlands in the 1980s, against a backdrop of social unrest

Alice Hargreaves used to pay £1,500 a month in rent on an Ealing one-bed. Now her share of the mortgage in Birmingham is just £350.

Stereotypes can linger even when long debunked. The “Red Wall” is still — to some tired parts of Westminster — a synonym for depleted industrial towns and a working class “left behind” by politics. But that is only half the story. Those areas of the North and Midlands that flipped…

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines

GBM Sports Promoter Izzy Asif is hoping to build on his incredible breakthrough year.