AREAS of the West Midlands are among the ten areas showing the biggest falls in economic activity since 2008, with average house prices in these zones falling on average by 24 per cent.Read
CROWDS thronged the aisles of the summer Good Food Show where they were given the chance to sample everything from British grown tea to toffee-flavoured booze.Read
A CITY children’s doctor is leading the way by running ten Race for Life events in a bid to raise funds for vital research projects after seeing first hand the trauma of families hit by the disease.Read
ENGLAND football fan Garry Mann has been transferred to a UK prison from Portugal where he has been serving a two-year jail term for hooliganism, campaigners said today.Read
A PA with accountancy giants Price Waterhouse Coopers – said to have been obsessed with being the centre of attention – has been jailed for nine months for a £33,000 expenses scam.Read
THE directorship bans handed out to four businessmen in charge of MG Rover when it collapsed with the loss of thousands of jobs amount to no more than a “slap on the wrist”, the former chairman of an influential business select committee said.Read
WALSALL supermodel Erin O’Connor’s personal assistant was spared a jail sentence after admitting stealing thousands of pounds from her boss to fund her own lavish lifestyle.Read
A GROUP of police officers with more than 130 years service spoke of their bewilderment and shock at being forced to retire from their posts because of funding cuts.Read
MANY train passengers will face slower and less-frequent services if the Government’s HS2 high-speed rail scheme goes ahead, a report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance has said.Read
MIDLANDS’ saxophonist Julian Smith is known mainly for the silky smooth sounds that earned him a runners-up spot on nationwide TV hit show Britain’s Got Talent.Read
A FRAIL retired jeweller was tied up with his own dressing gown cord and robbed after inviting a young woman to his Solihull home to discuss a cleaning job.Read
A FRAIL retired jeweller was tied up with his own dressing gown cord and robbed after inviting a young woman to his Solihull home to discuss a cleaning job.Read
News Editor Ben Hurst joined the Birmingham Mail in 2000 from the Gloucestershire Echo. Ben writes the Technobabble technology blog for the Birmingham Mail.
