THE swimming club which helped disabled teenager Ellie Simmonds win double gold in Beijing is warning that able-bodied youngsters who want to make a similar splash are being denied the chance by tight-fisted council bosses.Read
CHILLY workers at an historic Birmingham office building demanded heaters to keep them warm after the central heating conked out – but their dozy council landlords sent coolers instead.Read
BIRMINGHAM man Timothy Nolan made the national papers this week because he’s been denied a life-prolonging cancer drug – even though he caught the disease from a contaminated NHS blood transfusion.Read
BIRMINGHAM Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood was shocked by our revelations about fake ID cards and called on Home Office Minister Tony McNulty to crack down on rogue websites offering them for sale.Read
NOW the Portuguese police have officially removed the finger of suspicion from Kate and Gerry McCann, maybe the hateful whispering campaign against them will finally end. But somehow I doubt it.Read
WITH profits of more than £2 billion a year, Tesco lays claim to the title of Britain's most popular supermarket - but my hunch is that they're the most unpopular too.Read
Taxpayers beware! The Stirrer has discovered that Birmingham Council is locked in a race against time with Birmingham University to build the ultimate white elephant – a grandiose £40 million Olympic-sized swimming pool.Read
ONE of the joys of my current stint presenting the overnight show on Talksport is having a regular chat with Cannock's former England international Stan Collymore who hosts a regular football phone-in on the station.Read
UNION officials have condemned the "scandalous" sacking of 15 workers at Birmingham's troubled Astonbrook Housing Association, which is at the centre of a fraud investigation.Read
PRINCE Charles reckoned it looked like a place more suited to incinerating books than reading them, but Birmingham's Central Library at least has the approval of architecture watchdog English Heritage.Read
