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Disney casts a magic spell

PERCHED 120 feet above a near-vertical drop I seriously questioned the wisdom of spending thousands of pounds on a dream holiday.Read

CAMPAIGN: Popular plasticine duo visit hospice

A grand day to give sick kids a treatRead

A grand day to give sick kids a treat

PATIENTS and staff at a Birmingham children’s hospice enjoyed a tea-time surprise when two Oscar winners paid a visit today.Read

Birmingham blogger has No.11 bus challenge for Brummies

ONE of Birmingham’s leading bloggers has a roundabout challenge for the people of the city.Read

Solihull student drinks himself to death

A “LEVEL-headed” student with everything to live for was found dead in his university room after a late night drinking game ended in tragedy.Read

Solihull student drinks himself to death

A “LEVEL-headed” student with everything to live for was found dead in his university room after a late night drinking game ended in tragedy.Read

Solihull student drank himself to death

A “LEVEL-headed” student with everything to live for was found dead in his university room after a late night drinking game ended in tragedy.Read

Three-year-old boy locked in classroom at Chelmsley Wood school

A YOUNG child was left abandoned for almost half an hour in the empty nursery room of a primary school after apparently being forgotten by his teacher.Read

Solihull student drank himself to death

A “LEVEL-headed” student with everything to live for was found dead in his university room after a late night drinking game ended in tragedy.Read

Accident victim Cerys Edwards returns home

FROM the agony of separation to the elation of being reunited, the Edwards family have been through the emotional mill since their lives were turned upside down almost two years ago.Read

Still groovy, baby, all these years on

IT WAS hard, but I resisted the overwhelming urge to don purple psychedelic trousers and a giant lapelled jacket with kipper tie to match.Read

Drug addict jailed for robbery

A DRUG addict who forced a mother to go to a cashpoint in Birmingham while leaving her seven-year-old son alone with him in her car has been jailed for 12 years.Read

Drug addict jailed for robbery

A DRUG addict who forced a mother to go to a cashpoint in Birmingham while leaving her seven-year-old son alone with him in her car has been jailed for 12 years.Read

Drug addict jailed for robbery

A DRUG addict who forced a mother to go to a cashpoint in Birmingham while leaving her seven-year-old son alone with him in her car has been jailed for 12 years.Read

Artist Charlotte Hughes Martin has designs on milk bottles

REGULAR milk bottles are getting an aMOOzing makeover by a quirky artist who engraves farmyard designs on them and leaves them on doorsteps. Read

Catching a wave in turkish delight

FEW days sailing and you think you're a round the world yachtsman...Captain Pugwash more like," was my son Nick's cruel evaluation of my maiden voyage.Read

Kingsand, Cornwall

The real Cornwall off the tourist trail

The Levack family experience the "forgotten corner of Cornwall".Read

Brit's new man is from Small Heath

TROUBLED pop diva Britney Spears was in hiding today being comforted by her new boyfriend - a paparazzi photographer from Birmingham.Read

Steve McClaren

Euro flop Steve McClaren gets the boot

STEVE McClaren was today axed as England manager after the team's failure to reach the Euro 2008 finals.Read

Madness @ NEC

IF you ever needed proof that life begins and even gets better at 40, then Madness are it.Read

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