A TERRIFIED woman was rescued by firefighters today after trying to climb through a bedroom window to flee a blaze started by a cigarette at her Black Country home.
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A POPULAR £70,000 landmark statue commissioned by Walsall Council has been named in memory of tragic miner Jack Jigger Tayler who was killed in a colliery accident.
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HEROIC Midland mother-of-four Jody Owen has been nominated for a top life-saving award after diving into an ice cold Bloxwich canal to rescue a man, woman and two young boys.
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A ROOKIE ambulance calls operator who talked a Birmingham mother through birth and told her how to resuscitate her baby today admitted: "I panicked a bit. It was the longest 17 minutes of my life."
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TEENAGE Birmingham referee Dave Scotford told today how he had given the job the "red card" after suffering two years of abuse which left him fearing for his safety.
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PARTS of Tipton are to be declared "no go" areas for Santa Claus because of attacks by stone-throwing yobs during his annual charity sleigh collection.
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A ROAD accident victim with mental health problems plunged to his death from the third-floor window of a hospital ward, an inquest in Dudley heard.
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CALLS to have playing fields at Wednesbury officially named in honour of Wolverhampton Wanderers legend Norman Deeley are to be considered by Sandwell Council.
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GREAT grandfather John Wildgoose couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a Birmingham Mail photograph of himself from half a century ago driving a Dudley Zoo van.
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