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Ben Hurst

Ben Hurst

Brum needs a new station - now!

IT'S billed as the "finest station in Europe", cost £800 million and opened this week - but it's not in Birmingham. Read

Horrific moment a bus driver was knifed

ALL the bus driver had asked for was to see the man's travel pass. Read

Xmas market parking boost

THE runaway success of Birmingham's famous Frankfurt Christmas Market has led to a new coach park being opened to cope with demand. Read

Jobs dangers if New Street is not revamped - warning

FAILURE to revamp New Street would cost the region's economy millions of pounds and mean missing out on thousands of jobs, business leaders claimed today. Read

Grass on a bus lout - by text

BUS passengers can report anti-social behaviour by text in a radical new initiative. Read

New Street protests swamp the Mail

PETITIONS, letters and e-mails have flooded in from Birmingham Mail readers desperate to see the city's New Street station improved. Read

Stark truth over New Street overcrowding

PLATFORMS at New Street Station have been shut down 15 times in the last year because of dangerous overcrowding, it emerged today. Read

Countdown to crucial New Street call

THE future of New Street will be decided in an announcement next summer, the Government has revealed. Read

Minister tells Mail 'We're listening on New Street'

THE man who will decide if New Street Station can be redeveloped today told Birmingham Mail readers: "We're listening to YOU." Read

Give us a New Street to match others

LIGHT, airy, clean, modern and anything but overcrowded - these pictures show stations around the country. Read

Let's get New Street station back on track

THESE new pictures show what passengers in Birmingham could and should have - if YOUR voice is heard in Whitehall. Read

Don't let the death of my son be in vain

THE mother of a teenager killed in a high speed smash today launched a major campaign to cut the deaths of young drivers on the roads. Read

The hidden horrors of New Street

A MOTHER pushes her 10-week old baby's pram in a dimly-lit tunnel underneath the tracks - the only way she can reach her platform. Read

Man shot on Broad Street

A MAN is fighting for his life after being shot three times in Birmingham's Broad Street early yesterday. Read

Bus route is top of the stops

BUSES on one of Birmingham's busiest routes are to finally get up-to-the-minute information - five years after the scheme was launched. Read

Metro plans derailed for another two years

THE long-awaited extension to the region's Metro tram system, considered crucial to cutting chronic traffic jams and pollution, has been delayed for at least another two years. Read

M6 named Britain's dullest motorway

BIRMINGHAM'S M6 has been declared the most boring road in the land, sparking fears it is so dull drivers could drop off at the wheel. Read

Rail signals to receive £350m upgrade

A MASSIVE £350 million scheme to modernise 40-year-old signals in the West Midlands has been given the green light. Read

Talking timetables fo rail passengers

TRAVELLERS wondering when the next train is coming at stations in the West Midlands will be able to use "talking timetables". Read

Passengers warned of winter rail chaos

PASSENGERS are facing a winter of discontent on the railways with train drivers and management at loggerheads. Read

Author Profile

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.

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