A RAPID about-face for Jacqui Smith, the Redditch MP and Home Secretary, who is now denying the Government ever planned to publish a list of violent men for women to consult.Read
FOR eight years, Redditch carpenter Brian Haw has lived on a roundabout opposite the House of Commons, holding a 24-hour protest against war and injustice.Read
BRITAIN may be the oldest democracy in the world but it has been the victim of election fraud worthy of a ‘banana republic’ – the phrase a judge used about Birmingham.Read
Birmingham MP Andrew Mitchell (Con Sutton Coldfield) is old mates with Damian Green, the Conservative MP arrested by police for his role in the leaking of information from the Home Office.Read
BIRMINGHAM MP Liam Byrne (Lab, Hodge Hill) has received some stick for his memo to civil servants, in which he explains when he likes his soup and coffee (cappuccino in the morning and espresso at 3pm).Read
BETTY Boothroyd, the former MP for West Bromwich West who became the much-loved Speaker of the House of Commons, is hopping mad – over a parking ticket.Read
