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Birmingham half marathon heading for a record entry

A STAGGERING 1,000 people signed up for the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon in less than 24 hours.Read

Birmingham half marathon heading for a record entry

A STAGGERING 1,000 people signed up for the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon in less than 24 hours.Read

Cancer survivor urges people to run the Birmingham Half Marathon

A CANCER survivor with half a lung missing is urging runners to sign up for the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon – saying: “If I can do it, so can you!”Read

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Slimming team's work-out raises £500 for charity

A SLIMMING club leader in Birmingham has raised over £500 by encouraging her members to combine exercise with their dieting.Read

On your marks for running fun

IT’S back! The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon is to be held again this autumn.Read

Birmingham postal staff charity boost

A BLIND charity in Birmingham is to benefit from postal workers’ generosity.Read

Slimming team's work-out raises £500 for charity

A SLIMMING club leader in Birmingham has raised over £500 by encouraging her members to combine exercise with their dieting.Read

Llewela Bailey back Harborne heart disease appeal

TELEVISION presenter Llewela Bailey is backing a campaign to get more people to do voluntary work for the British Heart Foundation.Read

Hundred of children pick up bats at Edgbaston Chance To Shine

NEVER mind the Twenty20 World Cup or the Ashes – the big cricket battle will be taking place in Birmingham tomorrow.Read

Down among the goats at Woodgate Valley park farm

A FAMILY open day will be held at Woodgate Valley Urban Farm on Sunday, June 14 from 11am to 4pm.Read

Bickenhill provides training base for overseas rescue team

FIREFIGHTERS have begun using their new search and rescue training facility in Birmingham.Read

Edgbaston staff saddle up for charity cycle ride

STAFF at a Birmingham firm will be cycling 70 miles to Oxford to raise money for charity.Read

Students celebrate anniversary of inventor of Braille

Louis Braille died in 1852 aged just 43, but his system of reading using raised dots is still used by the blind today.Read

Kittens spark a drama as charity seeks homes for abandoned cats

FOUR budding young actresses found themselves on the set of their own kitchen sink drama when they found six kittens had been born in their house.Read

Bullring chemical spill not treated as suspicious

A CHEMICAL leak which forced the closure of Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre and led to more than 30 people being treated by paramedics was probably an accident, police said today.Read

BIRMINGHAM’S Bullring is to remain closed indefinitely as an investigation continues into a chemical leak which led to 33 people being treated by paramedics.

Today, a further nine people had to be treated when they went into the centre to open it up but experienced breathing problems.Read

Man arrested for assaulting woman in Ward End home

A MAN has been arrested after a woman was assaulted inside a house in Birmingham today.Read

Passengers lucky escape in Kings Norton bus crash

PASSENGERS had a lucky escape when a car crashed into the back of the bus they were on in Monyhull Hall Road, Kings Norton, at 6pm yesterday.Read

Liberty’s is turned into an Indian restaurant

A LANDMARK Birmingham nightclub is set for a new lease of life – as an upmarket Indian restaurant which will create 56 new jobs.Read

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