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Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1975-1985

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:10:00 GMT

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

Diamond Jubilee: The Queen's moment of crowning glory

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 29 May 2012 06:00:00 GMT

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

Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1964-1974

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:30:00 GMT

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

Diamond Jubilee: The making of Queen Elizabeth

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:00 GMT

GOT UP. Reigned. Went to bed.

Diamond Jubilee: Abdication changed things forever

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:40:00 GMT

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

Diamond Jubilee: Queen Elizabeth timeline 1952-1963

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:20:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:18:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:57:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:22:00 GMT

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.

Special egg and soya oil diet helps Solihull woman get pregnant

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:05:00 GMT

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.

Birmingham Mail's role in creating Spaghetti Junction legend

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:11:00 GMT

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

Life in 1972 as Spaghetti Junction opened

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:10:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:51:00 GMT

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

The true extent of Birmingham's stray dogs struggle

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

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

Life inside the Midlands' newest jail HMP Oakwood

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 05 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:54:00 GMT

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

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

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:31:00 GMT

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.

William and Kate: The First Year

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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.

Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov suffered a 'breakdown' after moving to Britain

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

FOOTBALL and fame meant nothing to a tearful Stiliyan Petrov on the night he found himself “angry and alone” and suffering a “breakdown”.