Translationby Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Mail The Government has admitted a controversial scheme to provide interpreters to the courts and West Midlands Police is unlikely to save £12 million. The national cost-cutting scheme, run by Applied Language Solutions (ALS), has been plagued by reports of translators failing to turn up or making mistakes. The Mail revealed…

TranslationA STONEHOUSE man has been denied a Kurdish interpreter at his forthcoming trial because he has been in the UK long enough to learn English, a judge has ruled. Baravan Yahia, aged 26, is due to face trial on September 26, charged with taking a BMW on September 12 last year and driving it dangerously….