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A LANDMARK city centre nightclub, which has been silent for four years, could soon be rocking to the tunes of the world’s biggest rock and pop acts. The former Dome nightclub on Bristol Street is to be given a £4 million overhaul to become the new home of the Birmingham Carling Academy.
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TWO Birmingham mums have had their budget worries eased after winning the Mail's Cut the Cost competition.
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OFF-duty doctors saved the life of an elderly man after he suffered a heart attack on a golf course.
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CITY council bosses could be landed with thousands of employment tribunal cases from staff facing salary cuts under the controversial new pay and grading system.
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NEW sound-proofing measures are being considered to protect office workers from the drone of 24-hour rolling news coverage on Birmingham's £365,000 big screen.
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LATE night bus services from Birmingham’s Golden Mile have been suddenly scrapped due lack of interest.
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FURIOUS city planning chiefs want Birmingham’s historic Kennedy mural fully restored to its former glory in a new £150 million Digbeth Irish Quarter development.
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POLICE have begun the 'painstaking' process of investigating allegations of postal vote fraud during last week's local election.
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SHELTERED homes for frail elderly are to be built at the heart of a new £50 million Sutton Coldfield shopping complex sparking protests from councillors.
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SUPERGIRL flew into Birmingham to help the city’s oldest comic shop celebrate an international event of epic proportions.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the remains of a Victorian metal work factory and canal beneath Centenary Square. The excavations on the car park next the Birmingham Rep Theatre have also revealed a section of canal.
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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown was sweating on a tough night ahead as thousands of voters go to the polls in local council and mayoral elections today.
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A CONSERVATIVE candidate is claiming to live in both south Birmingham and Wolverhampton as he battles for two elections.
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NEWSPAPERS, plastic bottles, glass and tin cans left by Sutton Coldfield residents for recycling during last week's strike have been sent to landfill site in a bid to clear the backlog.
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A CITY mum who launched an asthma charity following the death of her three-year-old son is to take her campaign to the Government health minister next month.
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SUPPORT for the all out strike by council workers increased for yesterday's second day of action after what union bosses admitted was a slow start.
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BLACK bags were today left uncollected on the streets of Birmingham as more binmen joined the second day of a strike over pay.
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ULTIMATE Force hard man Ross Kemp is weighing into a parish council election in a bid to send the BNP packing.
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BINMEN today broke an all-out council strike as they accused city bosses and trade union leaders of behaving like "schoolchildren".
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A local news reporter in the Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield and south Staffordshire area since 1995, Neil Elkes is the local government correspondent covering the activities of Birmingham CIty Council - Europe's largest local authority. An avid reader and collector of comics Neil is writing a column on this for the Birmingham Mail website.
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