The director of the Staffordshire theme park George Bryan tells #HeartNews how staff rescued animals in the zoo from flood water.
Thomas Cook is on the brink of collapse this morning - which could leave 150,000 British tourists stranded abroad. The world's oldest travel agent has asked for a £200m government bailout. Anna and her boyfriend are due to be flying back to Birmingham Airport from Gran Canaria on Monday.
An academic at a university in Birmingham is calling for gamers to be better protected from being harassed online - particularly if they're using virtual reality. Dr Sarah Jones from BCU wants the government to step in and introduce guidelines to stop people being bullied or groomed.
A study has found the need for food banks increases in areas where Universal Credit has been in operation the longest. The Trussell Trust said demand is around 50% higher where the roll out of the benefit has been in place for at least 18 months. They say it's because families are forced to wait five weeks for their first payment. Les Allen's from the Sparkhill Foundation.
It's claimed free cash machines are disappearing quicker in more deprived areas of the West Mids - than more affluent ones. A study by Which? saw nearly 1 in 10 shut or change to fee-paying services - with Ladywood in Birmingham the worst hit nationally. The area saw 47 free ATM's go in a year and a half. Here's Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood.
Manjit Gil owns Rajdoot Tandoori in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. #Brexit #Curry #Europeanworkers #EU #Birmingham
A university student from Birmingham's created a chair from barbers' off-cuts to get people thinking about what we throw away. The bucket seat's supported by leather straps and hangs from a metal frame. Alice Evans has spoken to Heart.
West Midlands Police are taking to the top deck of buses in Birmingham, in a bid to catch drivers using their mobile phones at the wheel, by looking down into the cars of unaware drivers. Operation Top Deck is the first operation of it's kind in the UK. PC Mark Hodson says 20 people were caught using their mobiles earlier that day...
It's the £1.7billion question... Well, that was the cost of female offending in 2015 - 16. With a high suicide rate and the majority of inmates serving short sentences under six months - is there evidence jail can do more harm than good? Reporter Emma Reid has been exploring the issue. #Prison #Womeninprison #Offenders #Crime #Justice #Prisoners #HeartNews
Coventry cave diver Rick Stanton speaks to reporters at London Heathrow after returning from rescuing 12 boys in Thailand.
David Price from #ProudBaggies is heading out to Russia for the #WorldCup He told #HeartNews that although the Russian views towards gay rights are wrong, the #LGBT community needs to stay safe out there & avoid public displays of affection
Tom Jenkins from LGBT support group Nightlife Outreach in Birmingham has told Heart they want people to make sure they're staying safe during Pride. They help people with drugs, alcohol and mental health issues. Tom says they know people will be using substances during the festival, and it's unrealistic to think you can stop them by telling them not to. But they want to make sure people are being safe and understand the risks.
Dan Alexander has made a film to showcase Birmingham which will be seen by 1 billion people Commonwealth Games closing ceremony as they handover to #Birmingham2022
Lady Sanity will be representing Birmingham at the handover of the Commonwealth Games to the city for #Birmingham2022.
The mum of a teen - stabbed to death in Birmingham - has said a new knife crime ad campaign won't have the right impact. Alison Cope's son Joshua Ribera was killed in 2013 after being attacked in Selly Oak. There have been at least 18 stabbings across the West Midlands since the turn of the year - with five being fatal. The Government's spending more than a million pounds on the ads which will appear on Facebook and Twitter.