RESIDENTS who battled to stop a home for problem children being set up on their doorstep claim their worst nightmares have come true just weeks after its opening.
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A BIRMINGHAM schoolboy died when he was hurled off his bicycle in an horrific hit and run accident just half an hour after breaking up for the summer holidays.
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PHEW - what a scorcher! With temperatures soaring and pavements hot enough to fry an egg, the Beach Hutters' Appreciation Society brought their shack to the city to provide some welcome shade.
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BOURNVILLE will be ringing out the bells to celebrate 100 years of its rare carillon as musicians from across the world arrive for a festival of the instrument.
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CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay is used to making mincemeat of people on national TV but he met his match when he invited four Midland butchers onto his show.
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HIS best set piece might only consist of nudging weeds and he's hardly the goal poacher Sven needs, but he could just be England's lucky omen tonight.
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A MAN was fighting for his life and two others were seriously injured in the space of three hours as the ugly spectre of knife crime again reared its head on Midland streets.
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Catherine Lillington works as a general news reporter on the Birmingham Mail, covering patches in the south of the city and stories for the jobs pages.