A hospital has launched a specialised kitchen to see whether elderly patients can carry out every day tasks such as making a cup of tea. Royal Stoke University Hospital’s staff will use the “therapy ...

Motorists have been warned of traffic disruption in Belfast due to a parade by hundreds of football fans from Switzerland on Thursday. Up to 2,000 supporters of St Gallen are expected in the city for ...

Just three claims were made for riot compensation in a town hit by this summer's disorder. The BBC has learned only three claims were made from Hartlepool under the Riot Compensation Scheme, whereas ...

A new school has opened in a Leicestershire town to help children with health conditions back into mainstream education. The Children’s Hospital School has opened The Phoenix Learning Centre in ...

The father of a boy who was fatally struck by a car as he waited for a school bus said his pain was immeasurable one year on. Mayflower High School student Freddie Coleman, 15, died at a bus stop in ...

BBC Radio Derby sports presenter Dominic Dietrich is still pinching himself after being given tips on how to improve his swimming technique by three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty. The ...

The first baby has been born at a new hospital in Smethwick. Mona Lisa Yonas arrived at 08:48 GMT on Wednesday, at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. Her parents, Semhar Tesfu and Yonas ...

A Country and Western tribute band from Wolverhampton have become such a big hit that they have been invited to tour the US. Luke Combs UK, made up of teachers from Wolverhampton and Telford and ...

Plans to widen a waterway and create new ponds at a wetland park have been approved as part of a project to redirect a river to its historical route. The scheme, run by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust ...

A former police officer who slouched down in his seat "in a manner indicative of boredom" during a domestic violence course would have been sacked had he not quit. Former PC Callum Hubbard attended ...

The Coronation Fountain has been on Broad Street in the Cambridgeshire town of March since its installation in 1912 to mark the Coronation of King George V. It was dismantled and sent away for ...

A fire service signed off 85 employees over the past year as it tackled what a union branded a "mental health epidemic" among staff, new data revealed. Figures obtained by the BBC showed the staff at ...