Safeguarding boss Alison Hinds says the city has experienced "absolutely nothing like this" before.

One knife crime campaigner says she is not surprised to see the high rate in the West Midlands.

The BBC visits a scheme helping to turn young people from a life of crime.

Boxes of kitchen knives are seized as officers investigate how they might have been sold.

Birmingham Says No to Knife Crime and Youth Violence helps people from a centre in Handsworth.

Cody Fisher's girlfriend Jess Chatwin says she will never be able to move on from his murder.

About 400 new packs are being installed in restaurants, bars and shopping centres around the region.

Muhammad Hassam Ali died after being attacked in Birmingham city centre.