In a first for one of Birmingham's most popular annual fundraising events, the 2015 Brindleyplace Dragonboat Festival will feature a giant screen, which will broadcast live race action and raise funds for the day's chosen charity.

A woman who survived the Nepal earthquake, gave birth to a healthy baby boy just days after she dug herself out of the rubble of her collapsed home. Dolma Tamang gave birth just two weeks after digging herself out from under a pile of earthquake.

Work has started to prepare two popular paddling pools in Wolverhampton for the summer season, and they are expected to open in time for the late May Bank Holiday.

Fiona Reid, a mother of two from Aston in Birmingham was killed in a horrific fireball while on holiday in Jamaica when the car she was in hit a truck head on. Her devastated father Kevin has revealed that because of a lack of Holiday Insurance, he now faces costs that will cripple him in order to bring her body back to her hometown.

Free fun family events from story-telling to Xbox gaming are lined up this half-term at Sandwell’s libraries. Libraries across the borough will be showing films, staging PS4 gaming sessions as well as running craft and story-telling sessions.

Following from the verdict of the Kingsley Burrell inquest, Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said, "First and foremost my thoughts today are with the family and friends of Kingsley Burrell. I offer my condolences to them."