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Nick McCarthy

Nick McCarthy

Birmingham residents face 99 year wait for larger council houses

DESPERATE Birmingham families face a 99 YEAR wait for the largest council houses, the Birmingham Mail can reveal.Read

Chelmsley Wood man beats drug dependence to launch his own company

A FORMER drug addict has beaten a 22-year dependence on heroin and crack cocaine to start his own media company.Read

Five hundred Birmingham families will have benefits capped

The city council is currently paying towards the rent of 28,000 private tenants who are on welfare benefits.Read

Extra opening at Drayton Manor Theme Park

DRAYTON Manor will open Thomas Land and the zoo early with two-for-one ticket offers ahead of the March 17 season. Visit www.draytonmanor.co.ukRead

Sleep out in aid of homeless charity in Bordesley

A CITY charity is urging people to spend a night in a cardboard box to raise cash for a homeless charity.Read

Azhar Iqbal, 39, from Stechford

Food firm leads tributes to Stechford dad who was shot in Pakistan

THE boss of a Birmingham-based halal meat business has paid tribute to an award-winning staff member who was murdered in Pakistan as he tried to protect his family.Read

Free noodle lunches at Sutton Coldfield's Chop and Wok

SUTTON Coldfield’s Chop and Wok will be giving away free noodle lunches on Wednesday from noon until 6pm on Birmingham Road.Read

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery museum gets a £65,000 government grant

BIRMINGHAM Museum and Art Gallery has been handed a £65,000 government grant to help refurbish the Soho House visitor centre.Read

Mother of Birmingham New Year's killings victim says killers should never be freed

THE mother of one of the two Birmingham girls killed in the New Year’s shootings says the evil killers should NEVER be allowed to walk the streets again.Read

Birmingham City players meet MacMillan cancer Support fundraisers

Staff from the Northfield office of Pertemps People Development Group met Steven Caldwell and Wade Elliott at the Wast Hills training ground.Read

Leonardo exhibition set to smash visitor expectations

THE first Leonardo da Vinci works to ever go on show in Birmingham are set to smash visitor number expectations.Read

Birmingham double murder: 300 Handsworth Wood residents packed into Grestone Primary School attend meeting after killing of Avtar and Carole Kolar

The meeting, near the murder scene, was organised by resident and community worker Raj Rattu who asked for a one minute silence for the Kolar family.Read

Comedy opening for Sparkbrook eaterie

TV FUNNYMAN Patrick Monahan, winner of ITVs Show Me The Funny, has opened the Pasta di Piazza La Favorita Restaurant in Sparkbrook.Read

Help support storytelling week in Perry Barr

PERRY Locks Nursing Home and Amberley Court, in Perry Barr, need volunteers for Storytelling Week from January 28.Read

BBC Birmingham staff on strike over planned move south

AROUND 90 staff at BBC Birmingham walked out on strike yesterday afternoon over plans to move some national TV and radio programme-making teams from the city.Read

Car dealership hands over lifesaver gift

A SOLIHULL car dealership has donated a brand new Mini for 12 months to a lifesaving charity.Read

Betty Yates murder: Worcestershire teacher was attacked with her walking stick

Betty Yates was discovered with stab wounds to her neck on January 4 at her isolated Riverscroft cottage in Bewdley, Worcestershire.Read

Birmingham City's Nathan Redmond pays tribute to Warwickshire car crash victims Mikey Abdou and Mike Dugmore

Birmingham City star Nathan Redmond has joined hundreds of others to pay tribute to two young men who died in a horror smash between their car and an open top bus near Stratford. The victims have been named locally as 19-year-old Mikey Abdou from Hockley Heath, near Solihull and 21-year-old Mike Dugmore from Wilmcote, near Stratford. Read

Sutton Coldfield Prostate Support Group

THE Prostate Support Group will hold its next meeting at the Sutton Coldfield Trinity Centre on Wednesday January 25, off Mill Street at 2.30pm.Read

Kingstanding thug boasts of smoking cannabis in Birmingham jail

POLICE are investigating after a violent thug posted Facebook pictures and bragged about smoking cannabis INSIDE Birmingham prison.Read

Author Profile

Nick McCarthy was born and raised in Birmingham and he joined the Birmingham Mail in 2007. He joined the weekly Sutton Coldfield News in 2004 and qualified as a senior journalist in 2006. Before working as a journalist he completed an undergraduate degree in sport and a masters degree in sociology.