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Your Schools: Food for thought at Howley Grange Primary School

A “CHEF school” gave pupils at Howley Grange Primary School an educational, behind-the-scenes experience at a restaurant.Read

Your Life: Could mystery man Bryan Wallace Mills be your relative?

HIS face stares out from a different time. And yet Bryan Wallace Mills remains a mystery.Read

Beauty: The Look of love this Valentine's Day

Beauty editor Alison Jones looks at the latest products to hit the shelves, whether you are treating yourself or a loved one this Valentine's Day...Read

Fashion: Make Valentine's Day extra special with some beautiful lingerie

Whether it's you in it or your buying it as a gift, give your loved one a treat this Valentine's Day with some beautiful lingerie.Read

Shopping: Brummies don't put price on love on Valentines Day

AS A poll finds romance is alive and well in Birmingham, Consumer Editor Emma McKinney asks Brummies what they are buying their loved ones this Valentine's Day.Read

Cheap as Chips: Deep Sea Fish, 99 Drews Lane, Birmingham B8 2QE

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YOU’VE got to feel sorry for some shops when a giant like LDV shuts down across the road.Read

Pub Review: O'Neill's, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HG. Tel: 0121 616 1623

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HEARING an item on the radio about the ongoing difficulties of organising this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade got me thinking.Read

Restaurant Review: The Chef's Dozen, Longbarn Village, Alcester, Warwickshire B49 5JJ

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BEING a grizzled old grump, there are few occasions on which my heart excitedly skips a beat.Read

From the Archives: I used a pillow and string to kill the girl

THE courtroom was crowded long before Horace Carter was brought before magistrates and many women who queued outside were turned away.Read

Behind the Headlines: Radical plan to shake up how West Midlands Police force is run

PRIVATE firms WILL be offered the chance to run back office functions under radical plans to restructure police services in the West Midlands.Read

Travel: Skiing with Inghams in Austria

THEY do things differently in Ischgl.Read

Your Pictures: Weighty matter of fundraising

A BIRMINGHAM charity campaigner is urging people to shed their festive weight – and raise funds.Read

Your Amateur Stage: No business like show business...

A round-up from the world of amateur dramatics. Send YOUR amateur stage news and pictures to paul.fulford@trinitymirror.com or esh.capelo@trinitymirror.com.Read

Your Memories: The day Elizabeth took over the throne

AS THE Queen’s Diamond Jubilee draws near, I expect many of my generation will be reminiscing on where they were and what they were doing on February 6, 1952, when they heard the news that the King was dead and that we had a new Queen.Read

Cheap as Chips: Big Fish, 708 Chester Road, Erdington B23 5TE

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I’VE HAD some experiences in chip shops in my time, but have never been beaten to the doorstep by a crafty pigeon.Read

Pub Review: The Hazelwell, Pineapple Road, Kings Heath B30 2RS

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NOT everything went to plan during our debut at The Hazelwell.Read

Restaurant Review: Chao Baby, 6 Spiceal Street, Bull Ring, Birmingham B5 4BH. 0121 643 2424.

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LET’S find something positive to say about Chaobaby. Here goes. The staff eventually brought the right dishes to our table.Read

Bobbies on the Beat: Team tackles complex issues of city suburb

HOME to more than 23,000 people, Stockland Green is a diverse and transient ward with residents coming from a melting pot of different backgrounds.Read

Casebook: Big police search for the killer next door

FAMED executioner Albert Pierrepoint had already made his final checks of the gallows when he slipped the noose around the neck of a convicted child killer.Read

Behind The Headlines: Catching jailbirds who want to break free

As the manhunt continues to track down ‘dangerous’ John Anslow after he was sprung from a prison van on Monday, Birmingham Mail Crime Correspondent MARK COWAN looks back at some other daring prison breaks.Read