More than 100 cannabis plants have been seized by police after officers raided a property in Coventry. West Midlands Police visited the building on Highfield Road on Monday after reports from members of the public of suspicious behaviour.

The West Midlands Police area no longer has the highest rate of knife crime in England and Wales, official figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the force had 165 reported knife and sharp instrument offences per 100,000 people from October 2023 to September 2024.

A fire at a scrap metal recycling plant is being treated as arson by police. Emergency services were called to the blaze at R. Davies Metals & Sons on Oak Lane in Kingswinford, Dudley, just after 23:10 GMT on Sunday. No-one was injured.

Parents have to do more to educate children about knives, the chief constable of West Midlands Police says. Craig Guildford was speaking out after 12-year-old Leo Ross was stabbed to death as he walked home from school in Birmingham.

A comment made on social media following Bradford City's 3-1 win against Walsall FC at the weekend is being being investigated by the club and police. Bradford City said in a statement it was working with the West Yorkshire and West Midlands forces and Walsall FC to "identify the individual" behind the post.

West Midlands Police has issued a fresh appeal for witnesses more than three weeks after a car was driven at pedestrians in Birmingham city centre on New Year's Day, seriously injuring two people.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after another man was shot in Wolverhampton last month. The victim was treated in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries after a gun was fired in Westbourne Road on 18 December, West Midlands Police said.