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Hopefuls head for X Factor auditions in Birmingham

JUST weeks since controversy over Britain’s Got Talent and Simon Cowell was back in Birmingham moving ahead with his X Factor phenomenon.Read

Campaigners fight to keep maternity services at Midland hospital

PROTESTORS have launched a campaign to halt a controversial downgrade of maternity services at Solihull Hospital, which could see pregnant women transferred up to 19 miles to give birth.Read

£10 million push to axe mixed sex hospital wards

HEALTH chiefs in the Midlands are to spend more than £10 million on making sure men and women do not have to share hospital wards.Read

Swine flu can't be contained say Midland health bosses

MIDLAND health bosses have been ordered by the Government to raise their level of treatment for swine flu to “outbreak management” as numbers escalated with 115 new cases.Read

Swine flu can't be contained say Midland health bosses

MIDLAND health bosses have been ordered by the Government to raise their level of treatment for swine flu to “outbreak management” as numbers escalated with 115 new cases.Read

£484m plans for west Birmingham and Black Country hospital hit snag

PLANS for a new £484 million hospital for west Birmingham and the Black Country have hit a stumbling block after the Department of Health delayed signing off the business case due to the credit crunch.Read

89 more cases of swine flu in West Midlands

THE West Midlands remains the worst affected area in the country for swine flu with a further 89 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.Read

New boss for Birmingham Children's Hospital

TROUBLED Birmingham Children’s Hospital has announced a new boss to lead the Trust after it was at the centre of a damning review.Read

Maternity wards in Solihull ‘face downgrade’

PREGNANT women in Solihull may be transferred to hospitals in Birmingham under controversial proposals to downgrade maternity wards, it emerged today.Read

PREGNANT women in Solihull may be transferred to hospitals in Birmingham under controversial proposals to downgrade maternity wards, it emerged today.

Bosses of Heart of England Foundation Trust have revealed they will no longer allow ‘high risk’ births or any involving premature babies at Solihull Hospital from April next year.Read

PREGNANT women in Solihull may be transferred to hospitals in Birmingham under controversial proposals to downgrade maternity wards, it emerged today.

Bosses of Heart of England Foundation Trust have revealed they will no longer allow ‘high risk’ births or any involving premature babies at Solihull Hospital from April next year.Read

Coffee shop worker becomes model for the day

PRETTY Paulina Pawlicka works behind the counter of a Birmingham city centre coffee shop by day, but for one night only, she had the chance to live a life of glamour and become a model.Read

Birmingham’s ‘hidden army’ of carers urged to claim benefits

A HIDDEN army of up to 30,000 Birmingham carers are not receiving the benefits and support to which they are entitled, according to new figures.Read

Heartlands Hospital seeks transplant patients’ memories

CANCER and leukaemia patients whose lives have been saved by bone marrow and stem cell transplants at a Birmingham hospital over the past 25 years are being encouraged to participate in a special exhibition.Read

Extreme slimmer give birth to baby AJ

WHEN tubby Michelle Bowater weighed in at nearly 25 stone, doctors broke the devastating news that she would never have a baby because of her size.Read

EastEnders star Emma Barton promotes breast cancer clinics

EASTENDERS actress Emma Barton knows only too well the harrowing effect of breast cancer after seeing two close friends killed by the devastating disease.Read

One-hour HIV tests on offer in Birmingham

SPEEDY one-hour HIV tests on the NHS are being launched in Birmingham in a battle to limit the spread of the illness.Read

Iragi doctors arrive to learn hi-tech techniques

A DELEGATION of doctors from war-torn Iraq has arrived in Birmingham to learn hi-tech techniques from city medics that could save more lives in their home country.Read

EastEnders star Emma Barton promotes breast cancer clinics

EASTENDERS actress Emma Barton knows only too well the harrowing effect of breast cancer after seeing two close friends killed by the devastating disease.Read

Staff pictures brighten waiting rooms at Midland hospitals

AN ATTRACTIVE array of photographs taken by staff at two Midland hospitals are making anxious appointment waits less stressful for patients.Read

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