Paul Fulford

Snap judgements that can harm us all

THE tatty hatchback that pulled up alongside me as I walked past the Bull Ring open market towards my bus stop looked dodgy.Read

Bank, 4 Brindley Place, Birmingham. 0121 633 4466

THERE aren’t many importations from America that I welcome.Read

Caught-out Jacqui Smith should quit now

WHEN Villa supporting ex-teacher Jacqui Smith became the first female Home Secretary 12 months ago, she had no shortage of well-wishers – especially here in the West Midlands.Read

Recipes for vegetarian feasts

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Rabbi Yossi Jacobs: Parenting is a joint effort

EACH week in Synagogue we read one portion of Scripture completing the entire cycle once a year.Read

Byzantium, 11 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham. 0121 444 5444.

FLATBREAD, you might think, is a simple thing unlikely to hit any great heights.Read

Nick Crudgington back with new venture at Anderson's just months after calling in the liquidators at the Bucklemaker

BIRMINGHAM restaurateur Nick Crudgington is back in business, just months after the collapse of his landmark city centre venue.Read

Kids today need a healthy fear of authority

THEY weren’t bad lads, the kids I hung around with when I was a bored teenager in Pype Hayes. Just ordinary working class boys with little to capture their imagination or fill their time.Read

Mount Fuji, Bullring, birmingham. 0121 633 9853.

INVARIABLY, I follow a visit to a Japanese restaurant with a quick trawl of the internet to discover exactly what I’ve eaten.Read

Raise A Glass: Cocktail making in Birmingham

THERE are not many people who haven’t watched the movie Cocktail and thought I wish I could shake it as well as Tom Cruise.Read

Enjoy Rachel Allen's taste of home

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We’ve got every reason to be proud

OK, FOLKS, here’s the deal to help re-establish Birmingham’s tattered reputation among the self-styled opinion-formers of the south.Read

Bordesley Green man and three others jailed over dog-fighting syndicate

A BIRMINGHAM man and three other people were jailed for their part in one of Europe’s largest dog-fighting syndicates.Read

Love's Restaurant, Canal Square, Browning Street, Birmingham. Tel: 454 5151.

STEVE Love is a chef with a fine pedigree, having worked with such culinary luminaries as Alan Ducasse, Claude Bosi and Gary Jones.Read

Saffron restaurant in Oldbury is a delicious blend of East and West

HAVING just returned from a fortnight in India eating nothing but curries, I must admit the thought of an evening sampling Indian cuisine didn’t fill me with excitement.Read

Sometimes swearing is just plain wrong, mum

WORDS more colourful than “crikey” and “blooming heck” have been known to pass my lips, as would be the case with many journalists.Read

New restaurant hoping to bite back against economic woes

Birmingham's top five Indian restaurants

Birmingham Mail food writer Paul Fulford picks his top five indian restaurants for a classy curryRead

Shapla, 173A Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull. 0121 733 2864.

THE shopping precinct in which Shapla is situated is one of those horrible concrete constructions that so marr Birmingham’s outer edges.Read

The Glass Lounge, Fort Dunlop, Erdington

TIMES have changed since we journalists scuttled off into dark, smoky pubs at lunchtime to knock back a few pints of bitter and scoff the occasional packet of pork scratchings.Read

Hacks bid farewell to the dark ages at Fort Dunlop's Glass Lounge

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