Stephanie Wareham
Crime19 May 2026
Woman who claimed she could not walk jailed for benefit fraud after 10k race
Helen Green, 49, told the DWP she needed crutches and was housebound but was caught on CCTV taking part in exercise classes and running 10k races.
UK
IOPC investigate after woman hit on golf course by van being pursued by police
A woman was critically injured after a van being chased by police left the road and mounted an embankment at Aston Wood Golf Club.
11 Apr 2025
Crime
Woman who planned to fly to Afghanistan to join IS and martyr herself is jailed
Farishta Jami, 36, had researched one-way flights to Afghanistan and had pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, a court heard.
10 Apr 2025
Crime
Man found dead in garden after being mauled by dogs including XL bullies
Nicholas Glass, 33, was looking after his brother’s dogs while he was in hospital but suffered fatal injuries caused by dog bites, an inquest heard.
3 Apr 2025
Crime
Boy’s actions ‘appalling’ but he is ‘not a murderer’, trial jury told
A teenage boy accused of attacking an 80-year-old man as he walked his dog did not intend to kill him, his barrister has told a murder trial jury.
2 Apr 2025
UK
Bletchley Park codebreaker who ‘inspired women in the Army’ dies aged 101
Charlotte ‘Betty’ Webb died on Monday, the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association said.
1 Apr 2025
UK31 Mar 2025
Birmingham declares major incident over bin strike
Council estimates 17,000 tonnes of waste remains uncollected around the city
Crime
Man denies murdering his ‘world-renowned’ Jaguar restoration expert grandfather
John Brown, 82, died in hospital six days after an alleged assault at his home on November 23 last year.
13 Mar 2025
UK
William poses for selfies with schoolchildren and referees football match
The Prince of Wales carried out his first engagement with the FA since becoming patron at Sporting Khalsa FC in the West Midlands.
11 Mar 2025
Business News
Council refuse workers begin indefinite strike amid row over jobs and pay
The Unite union has warned disruption caused by bin strikes could stretch into the summer months.
11 Mar 2025
Crime
Boy accused of pensioner’s murder ‘fell on him as he ran to push him over’
The boy told police he was ‘horrified’ to hear Bhim Kohli, 80, had died in hospital the day after he was allegedly attacked in a park.
7 Mar 2025
UK
Police investigation after skeletal human remains found in wood
Staffordshire Police said the ‘unsettling’ discovery was made by a member of the public on Sunday.
3 Mar 2025
Crime
Boy ‘confessed to attacking 80-year-old in Snapchat messages’, murder trial told
The teenager, who cannot be named, said he did not mean to ‘batter’ Bhim Kohli, 80, in a park in Leicester.
27 Feb 2025
Crime
Inquest into death of teenage girl charged with terror offences to begin
Rhianan Rudd, 16, was found dead at a children’s home in May 2022, five months after terrorism charges against her were dropped.
27 Feb 2025
Crime25 Feb 2025
‘Predatory’ Sex Education actor who sexually abused five people jailed
Alexander Westwood used his ‘minor celebrity status’ to abuse two of his five victims, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
UK24 Feb 2025
King greeted by cheering crowds at JCB headquarters in Staffordshire
Charles met employees, apprentices and their families and toured the construction equipment company’s factory in Rocester on Monday.
Crime
Soldier three times drink-drive limit when he killed ‘amazing father’ in crash
Adam Milton was ‘wholly responsible’ for the head-on crash at more than 100mph in which he and another driver, Wayne Neville, were killed.
20 Feb 2025
Crime
Murder accused ‘said wife was alcoholic to support lies she took her own life’
Mohamed Samak, 42, said his wife was an alcoholic as part of a ‘character assassination’, prosecution barrister Harpreet Sandhu claimed on Monday.
17 Feb 2025
Crime
Murder accused lied to 999 call handler ‘over worries he would be blamed’
Mohamed Samak told a jury he saw his wife Joanne stabbing herself, but ‘lied’ to a 999 call handler and said he found her slumped on her bed.
14 Feb 2025
Crime
Man accused of wife’s murder kissed another woman because he ‘missed romance’
Mohamed Samak, 42, denies murdering his wife Joanne, claiming her six stab wounds were self-inflicted.
13 Feb 2025
Crime
Man who was shot by police was killed lawfully, inquest jury finds
Marius Ciolac was shot in the abdomen outside Ascot Drive police station in Derby in 2022 after waving a knife in the car park and smashing windows.
13 Feb 2025