The period between Christmas and February is always a popular time for people to spring clean their love lives as well as their homes, but there is a sharp increase in people breaking up with their partners four days before Valentine’s Day.

A wish came true for nine-year-old Archie Hill, who has the life-limiting muscle-wasting condition, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and wrote to David Cameron in a bid to meet him and ask for his help.

Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson has appointed a champion for mental health, to address a major cause of vulnerability that disrupts the lives of almost a quarter of us at some point.

The big countdown is well underway, towards the General Election, and in Birmingham things are well in place for stalwart campaigners to step-up their own agenda-to encourage more Black voters to the ballot box, come this May 20.

BPS Birmingham, the membership organisation for the city’s business professional and financial services sector, has announced the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity (QEHB Charity) as its charity of the year for 2015.