Solihull news

• Look: Stunning images of chapel converted into home - complete with its own pulpit

  15-01-2015 17:30
  This Worcestershire house in Blackwell, on the market for £850,000, has kept the stained glass windows, bell tower and pulpit
  
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• GBSLEP poised to put plans into action - Insider Media

  15-01-2015 09:16 via insidermedia.com
  
  GBSLEP poised to put plans into action
  Insider Media
  Hollis spoke to Insider after the signing of the Birmingham and Solihull Growth Deal last week (8 January 2015), which is expected to bring 13,000 jobs, 4,000 new homes and up to £80m of public and private sector investment to the region. He added ...
  
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• Smashed shop windows not race attacks, stress police

  15-01-2015 00:00
  Police in east Birmingham investigating attacks on businesses in Small Heath and Sparkbrook - where windows were smashed - have moved to stress the incidents are not racially or religiously motivated. 
  
  Statements have been taken and officers continue to trawl CCTV which may have caught the vandals in action.
  
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• Men jailed after man blinded in alcohol fuelled attack

  15-01-2015 00:00
  Two men have been jailed after a man was blinded in an alcohol fuelled attack in Birmingham city centre.
  
  Simeon Evans, 30 of Kempson Road, Bromford was jailed for four years and 6 months and Jack Gargham, 26, of Devon Road, Rubery was jailed for four years and five months at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday (14 January).
  
  Both pleaded guilty to the assault which involved them whipping the victim with a belt, causing permanent damage to his eye.
  
   
  
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• Man to appear in court on European Arrest Warrant

  15-01-2015 00:00
  A German man will today (15 January) appear in court in London after being arrested in West Bromwich on an European Arrest Warrant.
  
  Nabil Djendoubi was arrested after appearing before Warley Magistrates Court on 13 January
  
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• Dudley Police appeal for help in tracing stolen property following break-in

  15-01-2015 00:00
  Police in Dudley are asking for help in tracing property they believed was dropped by a man who had broken into an address in the London Heights area of the town on Monday 12 January. 
  
  They are asking residents near to Cardoness Place to help look for the property, including a white Blackberry, a purple mobile phone, a black canvas bag and a pair of children’s pyjama bottoms, following the break-in at around 12.20pm Monday.
  
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• Cyanide warning after silver bullion stolen in Coventry raid

  15-01-2015 00:00
  Silver bullion coated in cyanide was stolen in an armed raid earlier this week in Coventry - and police have issued a safety warning as the coating could potentially prove fatal.
  
  Four masked men forced their way into an electroplating factory in Coventry just after 5.30pm on Monday (12 Jan) before stealing up to 20 bullion bars - each weighing a kilogramme - dipped in a solution containing cyanide. 
  
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• Appeal for victims of Dale End robbery to come forward

  15-01-2015 00:00
  Police are releasing CCTV of two people who they are looking to identify after charging four teenagers with attempted robbery. 
  
  The four followed a man and woman along Dale End and Albert Street in Birmingham at around 1.30am on Saturday 20 December. 
  
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