Category talk:West Midlands (region)

Please populate
An overarching category for the whole region is a good idea, especially given how many articles we have written about the different parts of it.

WM county

 * 1) West Midlands, UK Metro stops open at Pipers Row, Wolverhampton Railway Station
 * 2) England: West Midlands region floods amid heavy rain, high winds
 * 3) Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England
 * 4) UK police arrest woman over William Davis murder
 * 5) Four teenagers killed in car crash in Birmingham, England
 * 6) Three killed amongst Birmingham, England riots
 * 7) Police charge man over fatal hit and run in Birmingham, UK
 * 8) UK Police evacuate Birmingham city centre
 * 9) Storms hit UK, five dead
 * 10) Four people die after contracting H1N1 swine flu virus in West Midlands, England
 * 11) Four arrested in Birmingham UK in connection with July 21 attempted bombings
 * 12) Much of UK placed on flood alert by Met Office
 * 13) British airport closed after small jet transporting transplant organ crashes
 * 14) Girl found dead in truck in Northamptonshire, England
 * 15) UK animal welfare group prosecutes woman who threw cat into bin
 * 16) England: Parts of Birmingham area flood; music festival evacuates

Staffs

 * 1) Bystanders foil knife-weilding man on London Bridge with fire extinguisher, whale tusk
 * 2) Aidan Burley MP sacked following Nazi pics furore
 * 3) British Member of Parliament David Taylor dies
 * 4) UK Wikinews Shorts: December 23, 2009
 * 5) Staffordshire hoard goes on display in British Museum in London, England
 * 6) Large hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire, England
 * 7) Events take place across UK to mark Remembrance Sunday
 * 8) Great Britain's most dangerous road announced
 * 9) Elderly couple found slain in scrapyard in Staffordshire, England
 * 10) Snow causes disruption in UK
 * 11) UK Staffordshire South 2005 election postponed
 * 12) Many hurt on Alton Towers ride

Shrops

 * 1) World's oldest dog dies at age 20
 * 2) English magistrate resigns over Twitter posts
 * 3) UK actor Peter Postlethwaite dies aged 64
 * 4) Europe hit by storms, 45 deaths reported
 * 5) Mirror's exposé prompts call for inquiry into child abuse ring in Telford, England

Warks

 * 1) Five killed in mid-air collision over Warwickshire, England
 * 2) Cricket: Northamptonshire defeat Warwickshire by 27 runs in Twenty20 match
 * 3) English actor Norman Painting dies at age 85
 * 4) Hard shoulder gets the soft treatment on British motorways

Worcs

 * 1) Light plane flips over during landing at air show in Worcester, UK
 * 2) One killed, one injured as vehicle crashes into tree in Worcestershire, England
 * 3) Five-year-old girl dies after car crashes into river in Worcestershire, England
 * 4) France school bus crash kills one, leaves five seriously injured

Heref
Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 11:37, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) Woman killed after train and car crash in Herefordshire, England


 * I get it. You are from West Midlands and want to represent. I'm sorry but I'll put this on my back burner. Maybe other people will find time for this. SVTCobra 03:43, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced there is a need for this category. Equally I don't think there's a need for a category for each of the other eight English regions. I feel that the county and city categories are sufficient. [24Cr][talk] 23:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC)