The family of a 19-year-old man who had his entire life ahead of him have been left "devastated" by his murder in Handsworth wood. Yassin Alama was tragically stabbed to death in Hutton Road at around ...

Detectives investigating the murder of a man in Handsworth, Birmingham, have this afternoon named a teenager who’s wanted over the killing. Oumar Traore, aged 17, is wanted for questioning following ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

Former Dudley College lecturer and ex-Birmingham poet laureate Roshan Doug, said the Birmingham suburb had become like a foreign country, that few people would wish to visit. Get the latest headlines ...

Trade unions have called for the Conservative Party to take action against MP Robert Jenrick after he said a district of Birmingham had no visible white faces. The shadow justice secretary was ...

Handsworth is defying the sneers of the shadow justice secretary By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio Robert Jenrick claimed that he didn’t see a single white face in Handsworth. In February, the shadow justice ...

Handsworth locals say they've heard it all before after Robert Jenrick's controversial comments about the "lack of white faces". The Shadow justice secretary visited the Birmingham suburb, which he ...

"He's totally wrong, I don't know where he was looking but it's definitely not here - not Handsworth". That is business leader Bob Balu's assessment of statements made about the Birmingham district, ...

Bob Balu, chairman of Soho Road BID in Handsworth, criticised the words used by the shadow justice secretary "He's totally wrong, I don't know where he was looking but it's definitely not here - not ...

Robert Jenrick should apologise for his "disgraceful comments" bemoaning the lack of visible white faces in a part of Birmingham, the Mayor of the West Midlands has said. Richard Parker told Sky News' ...

Locals in Handsworth reacted to Robert Jenrick’s comments about a lack of integration in the area that the Conservative MP said borders on a ‘slum’ (Picture: Anita Maric, SWNS) As a fixture in the ...