Police arrested 15 crime suspects as they carried out 14 warrants at 13 businesses and one home on Wednesday morning. The range of offences included employing illegal workers, money laundering, possession of illegal items and immigration offences.

Birmingham's landmark Ringway Centre is set to be demolished despite a campaign to save it. Birmingham City Council's planning committee approved plans for the building to be bulldozed and for three huge apartment blocks to be built on the site.

Plans for more than five hundred and forty six new apartments on a brownfield site in Digbeth have been approved by councillors. The development will involve the demolition of the Argyle building as well as the partial demolition of the Myona building