Over the next 10 years, Birmingham city centre will undergo one of the biggest redevelopments in decades. There'll be new homes, shops and parks as the area around the Smithfield markets is transformed. | BBC Birmingham

20K views · 197 reactions | The city centre skyline of Birmingham's been gradually changing over the past twenty months as the old library, built in the seventies, has been demolished.The work still has a way to go yet but so far 14 and half thousand tonnes of concrete's been removed from the site, | BBC Birmingham | Facebook

A West Midlands Police boss has declared knife crime "an emergency" after three teenagers were stabbed to death within 12 days in Birmingham. | BBC Birmingham