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Afghanistan death blast soldier named

A BRITISH soldier who died in southern Afghanistan was remembered as the “toughest of men and the gentlest of friends”.Read

Man who made guns for Birmingham gangs handed indefinite jail sentence

A FORMER Army sergeant who made guns for Birmingham gangs was today starting an indefinite jail sentence.Read

Shard End stunner a finalist in national beauty pageant

IT’S not just the curvy girls who are trying to make their mark on beauty pageants.Read

Staffordshire Hoard is heading back to Mildands

PART of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold – which could be snapped up by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery – will head back to the Midlands next year, it has emerged.Read

The Rocky Horror Picture Show provides the perfect excuse for some racy fun

THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read

The Rocky Horror Picture Show provides the perfect excuse for some racy fun

THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read

The Rocky Horror Picture Show provides the perfect excuse for some racy fun

THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read

Tributes to Archers star Norman Painting

WARM tributes were today paid to actor and scriptwriter Norman Painting – who starred in the Birmingham-made radio soap opera The Archers for almost 60 years – after he died aged 85.Read

Probe into failure of jobless fund

THE Government has ordered an urgent inquiry into Birmingham’s failure to spend more than a small fraction of a £115 million fund to tackle unemployment in the city’s worst-hit areas.Read

Tributes to Archers star Norman Painting

WARM tributes were today paid to actor and scriptwriter Norman Painting – who starred in the Birmingham-made radio soap opera The Archers for almost 60 years – after he died aged 85.Read

Tributes to Archers star Norman Painting

WARM tributes were today paid to actor and scriptwriter Norman Painting – who starred in the Birmingham-made radio soap opera The Archers for almost 60 years – after he died aged 85.Read

Jacqui Smith admits her expenses 'disgrace'

FORMER Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has admitted she had been “disgraced” by her expenses scandal and blamed her own “wrong” judgement.Read

Jacqui Smith admits her expenses 'disgrace'

FORMER Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has admitted she had been “disgraced” by her expenses scandal and blamed her own “wrong” judgement.Read

Birmingham teenagers on gunpoint robbery charge

THREE Birmingham boys aged 13, 14, and 16 were remanded in custody charged with committing a gunpoint robbery which was filmed on mobile phones.Read

Probe into failure of jobless fund

THE Government has ordered an urgent inquiry into Birmingham’s failure to spend more than a small fraction of a £115 million fund to tackle unemployment in the city’s worst-hit areas.Read

Show off the best of the Midlands on film and win a top prize

BIRMINGHAM Mail readers are in the frame to enter a competition which aims to to show off the best of the Midlands and gives the chance to win top prizes.Read

Company of fusiliers which lost four Midland men in Afghanistan tour returns to UK

A COMPANY of British fusiliers which lost seven soldiers – including four from the Midlands – on a six-month tour of Afghanistan were returning home today.Read

The wrecked ambulance.

Two locked up for ambulance smash in Birmingham

A TALENTED Birmingham boxer who left a paramedic fighting for life after he ran a red light as he tried to escape police was starting a four-year sentence today.Read

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LDV creditors 'to get nothing'

HUNDREDS of creditors of van-maker LDV are set to receive “little or nothing” following its £75 million crash – with paltry dividends of less than 1p in the pound, it emerged today.Read