A HALLOWED silence fell upon a busy public square in Birmingham as the city honoured foreign and British soldiers in conflicts past and present today.Read
Gary John Fisher is accused of intentionally killing 17-year-old Chanelle Sasha Jones, whose body was discovered in the passenger seat of a Ford Fiesta near Aberaeron, Ceredigion, West Wales, on August 2.Read
A MIDLAND fire service today announced plans to close one in four of its stations and axe a third of fire appliances under a cost-cutting drive, union leaders claimed today.Read
A MIDLAND soldier fighting in Afghanistan has described the adrenaline rush of being under fire – and says his colleagues are determined to prove “they could do the job”.Read
News Editor Ben Hurst joined the Birmingham Mail in 2000 from the Gloucestershire Echo. Current Midlands News Reporter of the Year, Ben writes the technology blog for the Birmingham Mail.