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Paul Fulford

Paul Fulford

Pervert teaching assistant Rosemary Foxall loses appeal

ant was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court in July following a trial lasting more than two weeks.Read

Food and Drink: Rai Singh ahead in food business

NO-ONE would accuse Rai Singh of lacking ambition or of shirking risks.Read

Restaurant Review: Ponte di Legno, 44 Woodbridge Road, Moseley. Tel: 0121 449 8064.

IT WAS perhaps appropriate that we should choose to eat at an Italian restaurant on Sunday night.Read

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Travel: Train v plane - the race to Paris

When the people from Eurostar suggested a train v plane race between Birmingham and Paris, the wise money was on air travel clocking the fastest time.Read

Paul Fulford

Bus stop screens make me scream

THERE are many pointless things in life. The wearing of neck-ties, for instance. Or the very existence of Ant and Dec.Read

Restaurant Review: Bluu in Summer Row, Birmingham.

FROM a stodgy souffle to a rather good burger to a heavy bread and butter pudding, the food at Bluu was, to say the least, uneven.Read

Paul Fulford

Courtesy's sadly taken a back seat

IT WAS becoming a matter of concern. Bus travel was no longer the ordeal that it once seemed.Read

Buddhist message: Make peace and goodwill last all year round

BODHI Day is usually observed on December 8 or the Sunday immediately preceding.Read

Restaurant Review: Anderson's in St Paul's Square

THERE’S something reassuring about the paintings on the walls at the recently opened steakhouse Anderson’s.Read

Paul Fulford

Why slogans make me rant and rave

DOGS, apparently, are not just for Christmas.Read

Restaurant Review: Pushkar in Birmingham

THERE is style and there is substance, but the two rarely meet.Read

Food and Drink: Shazma dishes up the Italian treats

DUSK is falling and scores of people are already heading home from their office jobs at Brindleyplace on a chilly midweek evening.Read

Paul Fulford

Why privacy goes out the window...

TO DISCUSS intimate health issues with a close friend isn’t a thing that’s easy to do.Read

Restaurant Review: Caffe Uno in Birmingham

IT’S among my most used cookery books and one that I cherish.Read

Paul Fulford

Legacy of terror that still haunts us

THEY were ordinary people enjoying an ordinary night out in two ordinary city centre pubs that bleak, chilly night in November 1974.Read

Midlands death coach pair jailed

A MIDLAND coach driver has been jailed for five years and three months after a court heard that his out-of-control bus killed a couple as it smashed into their car.Read

Restaurant Review: Chung Ying in Chinatown, Birmingham

MY wife was given an important task before we set off to Birmingham’s long-established Chung Ying restaurant.Read

Paul Fulford

Selfish motorists are driving me mad

THERE’S nothing wrong with Birmingham’s transport systems. Other than the people who use it.Read

Extra poignancy to Birmingham remembrance services

REMEMBRANCE Sunday is always a time of poignancy. A time when we reflect in solemn, reverential silence on the terrible price paid by generations of servicemen and women so that this country might live in peace and freedom.Read

Filini, Radisson BLU Hotel, Holloway Circus, Birmingham. 654 6000

WHEN a favourite restaurant loses its chef, it’s always a time of anxiety.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.