A long-serving volunteer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has stepped down after more than three decades supporting patients and staff in the radiotherapy department. Jean Mannan, who began volunteering in 1995, said she first joined after undergoing surgery in her late 40s to treat lymphoedema,...

A man who hijacked a lorry at knifepoint and drove it dangerously through residential streets has been sentenced to prison. Bradley Burns, 25, threatened a lorry driver with a knife while she was parked in a 12-tonne gritter truck at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on...