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Diamond Jubilee: Warming to the quiet Queen May 31 2012

After the pageantry of the royal world tour, Britons felt they were getting to know their still-newish Queen.Read

Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1975-1985 May 30 2012

1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes Conservative Party leader. Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts. End of Vietnam War.Read

Diamond Jubilee: The Queen's moment of crowning glory May 30 2012

A dullish June 1953 day in London. A slight nip in the air earlier, then clouds whispering possible rain later.Read

Diamond Jubilee: The girl who climbed a tree as a Princess and came down as Queen May 29 2012

PRINCESS Elizabeth had long kept a photograph of her blond naval hero among her snaps of the royal ponies and corgis.Read

Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1964-1974 May 29 2012

1964: Beatlemania grips UK and US. Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston.Read

Diamond Jubilee: The making of Queen Elizabeth May 28 2012

GOT UP. Reigned. Went to bed.Read

Diamond Jubilee: Abdication changed things forever May 28 2012

Everything changed forever when the still-to-be-crowned Edward VIII told a stunned nation he was abdicating “for the woman I love”.Read

Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1952-1963 May 28 2012

1952 George VI dies and Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen. Flood devastates the Devon village of Lynmouth. Mau Mau uprising inRead

Diamond Jubilee: All of a sudden Queen Elizabeth's role was mapped out May 28 2012

Elizabeth, thought the Duke of York and his Scottish duchess, had no need to worry her pretty little head with mathematics,Read

Special report: Birmingham City Council in plea to find 300 foster carers May 23 2012

AFTER enduring the heartbreak of four miscarriages, David and Alberta Gibbs feared they would never be able to make their family complete.Read

Aston Villa and WBA fans from Birmingham raise the flag at the North Pole May 17 2012

HAVING braved bone-freezing temperatures, polar bears and gaping fissures in the pack ice to conquer the North Pole, Paul Taroni and Andrew Taylor did what any self-respecting Brummie would.Read

Special egg and soya oil diet helps Solihull woman get pregnant May 17 2012

SCIENTISTS at a fertility clinic have cracked it for a Solihull woman – who gave birth to twins after being on a diet of egg yolks and soya oil.Read

Birmingham Mail's role in creating Spaghetti Junction legend May 16 2012

LOVE it or hate it, it’s a Birmingham institution that has helped define the city’s image across the world.Read

Life in 1972 as Spaghetti Junction opened May 16 2012

Life was very different in May 1972 when Spaghetti Junction opened:Read

Football trials give second chance to young players cast aside by their clubs May 12 2012

Young footballers released by their clubs following their apprenticeships gathered at Walsall FC for special trials in front of dozens of league scouts.Read

The true extent of Birmingham's stray dogs struggle May 08 2012

MORE than 1,400 lost and abandoned dogs were impounded in Birmingham last year, the Birmingham Mail can reveal.Read

Life inside the Midlands' newest jail HMP Oakwood May 05 2012

GETTING into the Midlands’ newest jail is hard enough – so escaping is probably impossible.Read

Brave Tamworth girl Poppy beats brain cancer after eight-year battle May 03 2012

Brave Poppy Guilder has scored a knockout victory over a brain tumour following an eight-year battle.Read

20 stone Handsworth woman lost third of her weight thanks to Weight Watchers May 01 2012

Amanda Ward cannot remember ever being a size 14. But now the 24-year-old, from Handsworth, tells ZOE CHAMBERLAIN that her goal is in sight. Read

William and Kate: The First Year Apr 28 2012

A COUPLE of years ago she was just Kate Middleton, coltishly beautiful, from a wealthy but newly-monied family, who had caught the eye of a future British king while both studied at St Andrews University.Read

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