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Paul Fulford

Paul Fulford

Paul Fulford

They're flicking the V-sign at us all

ONE day, you’re a yob without kids. The next, you’re a yob with your very own sprogs.Read

Restaurant Review: Oscar's Gourmet Steakhouse, 5 Manor Road, Sutton Coldfield. 0121 607 8244.

BY THE time this review of our farewell meal appears, my sister and her family will be starting a new life in Australia.Read

Paul Fulford

Funny the things people talk about

THERE are few occasions when I induce young women to squeal with excitement at my appearance, fewer still when they are young, attractive, trendy and not prone to the sort of hysterical conditions which beset fragile female characters in Victorian novels.Read

Restaurant Review: Zizzi, Wharfside Street, The Mailbox, Birmingham. 632 1333.

AWARE that this might read like the Confessions of a Pyromaniac, I’m loath to continue.Read

Paul Fulford

Why travel by bus when it’s a trial?

THERE are many joys to be had from travelling by public transport, but few are as uplifting as waiting at a stop on a wet and rainy evening only to see the bus whizz past virtually empty.Read

Restaurant Review: The Cross, Alcester Road, Moseley. 0121 449 4445

AS A bleeding heart liberal, I overflow with forgiveness and tolerance.Read

Paul Fulford

For pity's sake, let the needy stay

BY THE time she was eight, she had seen her mother hacked to death and her brother shot dead.Read

Restaurant Review: Edmunds, 6 Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 633 4944.

MONSIEUR Michelin knows his onions, obviously. And his restaurant guide is rightly the most respected in the business.Read

Paul Fulford

Slaves to an electronic master

A WEEK away from work and a week’s worth of emails through which to plough with a heavy heart.Read

Restaurant Review: Pasta Di Piazza, 11 Brook Street, St Paul's Square. Tel: 0121 236 5858

DO NOT be too alarmed if you see a bare-footed bloke walking on broken glass while tearing up fistfuls of banknotes.Read

Paul Fulford

Hopefully pride comes before a fall

It wasn’t exactly elegant, my crashing fall to the ice-capped pavement near the old Lewis’s building as I slipped and slithered through the city centre on Friday evening.Read

Restaurant Review: Kinnaree Holliday Wharf Building, Birmingham. 0121 665 6568

IT WAS difficult not to feel sorry for her reclining in glorious and pert nakedness outside Kinnaree on a bitterly cold night.Read

Paul Fulford

Bring the beautiful game home

OBVIOUSLY world peace, the elimination of hunger and an end to any television programme featuring the words “Big Brother” figure higher.Read

Restaurant Review: Lasan Eatery, 1355 Stratford Road, Hall Green. 0121 777 9090.

BIG sisters can, apparently, be trying creatures – hogging all the attention and oozing the sort of sophistication that younger siblings crave.Read

Recipes: Bake away for a tasty start to the new year

You’ve piled on the calories over Christmas and vowed to get rid of the extra weight in the New Year.Read

Paul Fulford

A reminder of a Christmas past

HE LOOKS alarmingly like some ancient Teletubby prototype in his roughly knitted outfit, his podgy face creased by a worried frown beneath a bizarre balaclava.Read

Paul Fulford

Far be it from me to moan, but...

IT’S probably a mistake to expect encouragement or kind words from your wife.Read

Pervert teaching assistant Rosemary Foxall loses appeal

FAMILIES have expressed their relief after convicted pervert Rosemary Foxall failed in her appeal against a two-and-a-half year sentence.Read

Solihull dad Reg Keys hits out during Iraq inquiry

MIDLAND dad Reg Keys, whose son was killed by an Iraqi mob, told an official inquiry into the war that it was not a “just cause”.Read

Finally, Julie Kirkbride confirms she's not going to stand again in Bromsgrove

TORY MP Julie Kirkbride has finally decided to stand down at the next general election after heavy criticism of her expenses claims.Read

Author Profile

Paul Fulford is Features Editor and restaurant critic of the Birmingham Mail. He previously worked on the paper's news and sports desks.