BURSTING onto the stage, arms held aloft, Courtney Love hit the dirty opening chords from Pretty on the Inside, before launching into a version of the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil.Read
A GRIEVING Black Country mother whose son was killed in Afghanistan accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of breaking a promise to look into the death.Read
BRUMMIE Adrian Chiles is quitting the BBC for an ITV job understood to be worth around £1 million a year – after blasting the corporation for tinkering with The One Show.Read
THE Ministry of Defence is considering plans to fly troops wounded in Afghanistan to countries such as Germany instead of Birmingham for treatment if UK airspace remains closed because of the cloud of volcanic ash.Read
A MIDLAND poker champion accused of killing his wife then spending her money during a “playboy” weekend in Las Vegas is set to be extradited to America after last-ditch legal hurdles were dismissed.Read
MIDLAND hospitals would struggle to cope with a big influx of seriously injured solders fro Afghanistan, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.Read
A BIRMINGHAM man who celebrated raping a 13-year-old girl by giving a friend who also took part in the attack a ‘high-five’ has been handed an eight-year jail sentence.
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News Editor Ben Hurst joined the Birmingham Mail in 2000 from the Gloucestershire Echo. Ben writes the Technobabble technology blog for the Birmingham Mail.
