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James Cartledge

James Cartledge

Hero soldier's new challenge

A MIDLAND soldier who lost both legs and an arm fighting in Afghanistan is hoping to make history as a member of the first disabled team to compete in the legendary Dakar Rally.Read

Judge retires after Leamington Spa move

TRIBUTES were paid to a retiring judge who played a key role in the planning of a new Midland court complex.Read

Chelmsley Wood man jailed for exploiting underage babysitter

A MAN who had a sexual relationship with an underage babysitter has been jailed for three years.Read

Travelling tortoises are saved

A PLOT to smuggle eight live tortoises into the Midlands in a lunchbox was foiled by Border Agency officials.Read

BBC to cut jobs from its Birmingham city centre base

MORE than a fifth of staff working in a Birmingham-based BBC department are facing the axe.Read

More parents to abseil

TWO other parents whose children were treated at Birmingham Children’s Hospital will also take part in tomorrow’s event.Read

Hollywood woman has collection of 2,000 ceramic cats

A FELINE fanatic has spent the last 60 years amassing a £50,000 collection of more than 2,000 ceramic cats.Read

Michael McIntyre denies being the Mr Nasty of Britain's Got Talent

NEW Britain’s Got Talent judge Michael McIntyre, pictured, denied being too ruthless on the ITV1 show after reportedly reducing a nine-year-old to tears.Read

20,000 West Midlands council jobs at risk - GMB

TWENTY thousand council jobs have been axed or are under threat in the West Midlands, according to a new study.Read

Hopes fade for missing walker

POLICE co-ordinating the search for a hill walker missing on Britain’s highest peak admitted it was highly unlikely he was alive.Read

PJ Proby in court on £47k benefit fraud charge

POP singer PJ Proby has appeared in court charged with cheating the benefits system out of more than £47,000.Read

Birmingham sex trafficking pair jailed for 27 years

A FATHER and son who ran a family business of “sexual slavery” by trafficking women to Birmingham from Romania have been jailed for a combined 27 years.Read

Backing at last for Andy Gray - from the BNP

ANDY Gray has won backing from at least one source – the BNP.Read

Rail shake-up in the offing

DRAMATIC changes to long-distance rail services to Birmingham could be introduced when a new franchise begins next year, the Department for Transport has revealed.Read

Cash-strapped Birmingham City Council spends £700k on scaffolding for an empty building

BIRMINGHAM City Council has now spent more than £700,000 of taxpayers’ money on a set of scaffolding around a disused building.Read

BUPA care home in Edgbaston fined £150k over pensioner's death

THE heartbroken son of a Birmingham woman found strangled by the safety belt of her wheelchair spoke out against the care home’s “calculating” bosses after they were fined £150,000.Read

£20m centre brings lifesaving battlefield skills to Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM claimed a world first today with the launch of a pioneering research centre set to use battlefield skills to help victims of car crashes and potential terror attacks.Read

Father and son sex traffickers facing jail over Small Heath prostitution ring

A FATHER and son who treated international sex trafficking as a “family business” are facing jail.Read

Fears for Remploy jobs

CALLS for voluntary redundancies among staff at a firm employing mainly disabled workers could result in around 1,500 job losses, union leaders warned.Read

Former Walsall star "sorry" for head butting girlfriend

BIRMINGHAM-born former England footballer Michael Ricketts said he was “really sorry” after head butting and punching his girlfriend in a row at a restaurant.Read

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Birmingham-born James Cartledge works on the Birmingham Mail's newsdesk. He was previously a reporter at the newspaper.