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Business News Birmingham firms win new funding to help military personnel with mental wellbeing

New capital will support pair of companies to develop a chatbot app aimed at supporting staff with range of wellbeing services

Home Children as young as three suffering mental health issues

Ambassador scheme supports Walsall school children suffering stress and anxiety

Health News Walsall Manor Hospital ward closed to visitors over bug outbreak Norovirus triggers restrictions to protect staff and patients

Regional Affairs New 'flagship' medical centre for Wednesbury is approved

It will provide 13 consulting rooms and 32 parking spaces

Health News Six staff quit Walsall NHS trust due to bullying - report

The number of reported bullying issues higher in 2018 than the previous year

Health News 500 per cent rise in children taken into care in Birmingham - revealed

256 children were taken into care last year - rising from just 48 in 2013/14

Health News How disabled Brummies are scandalously far less likely to be employed Some 117,500 people aged between 16 and 64 in Birmingham were recorded as being disabled in 2017/18

Health News Health shake-up could delay long-awaited Metropolitan Hospital

There are plans to redraw boundaries for health services

Health News Staff shortage contributes to NHS funding crisis

Hospital trusts in Birmingham, Dudley and Wolverhampton are spending millions more than planned

Regional Affairs Thousands juggling full time care and full time work in Birmingham Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that there are 104,683 unpaid carers living in Birmingham

Health News The parts of the Black Country with the fattest kids - childhood obesity rates where YOU live 31.8% of Year 6 children - those aged 10 and 11 - in St Peter’s in Wolverhampton are considered obese

Health News Revealed: This is how under pressure Birmingham ambulance services are West Midlands Ambulance Service Trust received more than 1.2 million emergency phone calls in the 12 months to July 2018, new figures have revealed

Health News Huge new Walsall health centre is backed despite opposition

Health bosses say new facility will transform services and care for patients

Health News Plans for huge new Walsall health centre set for approval

The new medical facility will replace the Challenge Building in Walsall

Health News Birmingham mental health patients sent HUNDREDS of miles for treatment It means they were sent to a unit outside the catchment area of their mental health service in order to receive the inpatient treatment they needed

Health News The shocking number of people waiting over four weeks for a GP appointment

Data from NHS England shows that, in January, one in 42 patients faced a so-called “mega-wait”

Health News Birmingham booze shame with girls TWICE as likely to end up in hospital because of alcohol New figures from NHS Digital reveal that 92 girls in the city were admitted to hospital

Health News The Birmingham and Midlands hospitals seeing outbreaks of norovirus Figures from Public Health England’s hospital norovirus outbreak reporting scheme (HNORS) recorded 10 outbreaks of norovirus-type symptoms

Health News The heartbreaking toll alcohol is having on Brummies' health revealed Exclusive figures show around 195 people were admitted to hospitals in Birmingham five or more times in 2017/18 due to conditions caused by alcohol

Health News The worrying number of Birmingham pensioners hospitalised by falls every day There were 3,420 “finished admission episodes” involving people over 65

Home Shopping centre protesters could stand in Sandwell local elections

Members of the Save Lion Farm Fields are considering entering Sandwell's local elections in May

Health News The staggering number of Birmingham deaths due to air pollution New figures from Public Health England suggest one in 18 deaths of people over 30 in Birmingham (5.6%) in 2017 may be attributable

Regional Affairs Self-harm inside HMP Birmingham soars amid 'national prison scandal'New Ministry of Justice figures show there were 593 cases of self-harm recorded at Birmingham Prison in 2017/18

Health News Inquiry launched into deaths of five pregnant women

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust has launched an inquiry at City Hospital

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Health News Walsall Manor Hospital ward closed to visitors over bug outbreak Norovirus triggers restrictions to protect staff and patients

Regional Affairs City centre car park used by thousands to be sold and 'redeveloped' - because it's not needed It serves some of Birmingham's most popular attractions

Regional Affairs 1,000 Birmingham deaths could be avoided each year - if Brummies did this one thing A total of 6,578 people in our city died from avoidable causes between 2015 and 2017 - the equivalent of six every day

Regional Affairs HS2 boss says future generations will be GRATEFUL if controversial rail project built HS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston said the UK must hold its nerve over the high-speed railway scheme

Regional Affairs New recycling plant gets the go-ahead in Wolverhampton Around 200,000 tonnes of incinerator ash will be recycled per year

Jewellery Quarter Apartments plans after Jewellery Quarter property sale Cornwall House has been acquired by development group for resi conversion

Ladywood Comment: Ladywood regen plans must not repeat past mistakes Architect Joe Holyoak casts his eye over the next major public plans to regenerate inner city suburb as the council brings a private developer on board

Transport Vintage Trains launches new transport partnership Steam train company is working with West Midlands transport chiefs on plans to boost regional economy

Edgbaston Port Loop takes shape as Homes England loans £7m to project Government's housing arm backs regen project as developers bring first pre-fab homes to site on cranes

High Speed 2 £4m fund to restore woodland damaged by HS2 Second round of funding aimed at restoring woodland affected by development of high-speed rail line between Birmingham and London

Commercial Property £110m House of Fraser revamp stalls over 'giant glass box' roof extension The Birmingham department store is currently 'pretty shoddy'

Health News Walsall Manor Hospital ward closed to visitors over bug outbreak Norovirus triggers restrictions to protect staff and patients

Regional Affairs City centre car park used by thousands to be sold and 'redeveloped' - because it's not needed It serves some of Birmingham's most popular attractions

University of Birmingham Birmingham projects win engineering accolades Institution of Civil Engineers recognises developments and education initiatives across the city

Regional Affairs 1,000 Birmingham deaths could be avoided each year - if Brummies did this one thing A total of 6,578 people in our city died from avoidable causes between 2015 and 2017 - the equivalent of six every day