A nine-year-old girl with underlying health problems has died after contracting swine flu, a hospital said today. It is not yet known whether swine flu contributed to her death and no further details are available, a Birmingham Children's Hospital...

There has been a "small increase" in the number of people contracting swine flu, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson said today. There were an estimated 84,000 new cases of the disease during the last week. This is up just 6,000 from the week...

Walsall Housing Group (whg) has recruited two new directors, completing a hat trick of recent senior appointments. Cliff Horrocks has been appointed Director of Asset Management and Rob Gilham (pictured), Director of Housing Services. Cliff, who will...

Britain's biggest cities have joined forces to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, it was announced today. The Core Cities Group of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield have signed up to the programme...

A city council was criticised by a High Court judge today for failing to alert the Health and Safety Executive before giving the go-ahead for new flats for hundreds of students near a potentially hazardous gas storage depot. Mr Justice Collins,...

One in 20 UK schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey said today. And one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park while one in 20 said the Holocaust was a celebration...