IMAGINE the contempt we’d have had for Australia’s cricketers if they’d ducked out of the 2005 Ashes tour, which began just ten days after the 7/7 bombings in London.Read
NEW Orleans, which gave the world jazz, has turned Bourbon Street into a worldwide musical mecca; Nashville makes millions from its reputation as the home of Country.Read
UNFLATTERING national newspaper reports about Birmingham Children’s Hospital will come as a shock to those who’ve had family members treated there.Read
NOW that the West Midlands’ top copper Paul Scott-Lee has announced he’s quitting, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all had a say in who succeeds him?Read
WHEN I first saw the headlines about top telly presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, I assumed they were victims of the usual Beeb-bashing by right-wing media organisations.Read
DOZENS of frontline council staff around the West Midlands are being routinely issued with life saving stab vests – leading to renewed calls for the same protective equipment to be given to Police Community Support Officers.Read
MY OLD BBC WM colleague Les Ross has become an international internet phenomenon after his recent interview with the broadcaster and writer Hardeep Singh Kohli.Read
NEVER mind Central Tonight – ITV’s daily news programme fronted by Bob Warman and Joanne Malin will soon have to be rebranded “Central, Goodnight” after the axing of 60 jobs in its Birmingham newsroom.Read
