Articles...
Mar 7 2008
THOUSANDS of school children will be helped safely across busy roads thanks to Birmingham Mail readers who answered an SOS plea to become lollipop men and women....
Mar 7 2008
BENNY is to make a comeback - in the legendary shoes of Birmingham's best-known comedian Tony Hancock. Paul Henry, the actor behind the loveable simpleton who became a Crossroads star, will be in the spotlight again as tortured genius Hancock....
Mar 7 2008
BRITAIN'S best selling female artist, Birmingham's Sue Howells, is putting her heart and soul into a project she hopes will benefit thousands of heart disease sufferers. Sue has created a unique painting to raise more than £10,000 for the charity Heart Research UK Midlands....
Mar 7 2008
FAMILIES who refused to let their Birmingham estate slide into a no-go zone ruled by pimps and prostitutes won a pat on the back from the Government's Respect Tsar Louise Casey....
Mar 7 2008
A NIGERIAN mother-of-two who has been fighting to stay in Birmingham has been deported, her campaigners fear....
Mar 7 2008
SPEED cameras are to be installed on an accident blackspot which has claimed six lives in six years....
Mar 7 2008
FORMER world kick boxing champion Kash Gill has finally achieved his lifelong dream of setting up his own gym to unite people from all communities in a love of fitness and sport....
Mar 7 2008
WHEN former RAF navigator Ronnie Morgan of Birmingham was jailed at the notorious German camp featured in the Great Escape he was more than a little teed off....
Mar 7 2008
A HUSBAND has described the moment his Birmingham family's sunshine holiday turned to tragedy when he lost control of a 4x4 and ploughed in to rocks, killing his wife....
Mar 7 2008
SURVIVING footage of Enoch Powell's controversial "rivers of blood" speech in Birmingham is to be broadcast again in a major BBC documentary tonight....
Mar 7 2008
IT'S 600 miles away and a world apart - so why are families deserting Birmingham for the Orkneys?...
Mar 7 2008
BUNGLING burglars were left looking like dummies when they broke into a city showhome to steal a TV and computer....
Mar 7 2008
FORMER Blues star Paul Devlin has helped put the sparkle back into a listed Birmingham building....
Mar 7 2008
ICONIC film The Italian Job came to life when the world's only complete set of original replica Minis from the 1969 movie hit the streets of Birmingham....
Mar 7 2008
WORK is literally like a game for Nadine Gianfagna of Birmingham Children's Hospital.....
Mar 7 2008
A WOMAN who dodged bullets while serving with the military has joined West Midlands Police as the country's first full-time female chaplain....
Mar 7 2008
DETAILS of the precise costs of the £11 million Rover inquiry, and why it has taken so long, have been demanded by MPs....
Mar 7 2008
SEVEN war heroes from the Midlands' Mercian Regiment were today being honoured for risking their lives serving their country in Afghanistan....
Mar 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM is bracing itself for severe gales set to batter the city on Sunday night and Monday morning....
Mar 7 2008
ARCHITECTS behind a new sheltered housing complex for the elderly in Birmingham have been sent back to the drawing board by council planners....
Mar 7 2008
DOG lovers and their pampered pets got this year's biggest ever Crufts under way as a betting controversy threatened to overshadow the opening....
Mar 7 2008
EIGHTIES heart-throb turned theatre producer Paul Nicholas is looking to Birmingham in the hope of finding the next Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom or Jude Law....
Mar 7 2008
IT'S almost Christmas 2009 - and Bob Warman is reading the regional headlines from ITV's Birmingham studios....
Mar 7 2008
ITV'S predicament became all too clear when it announced its financial results this week....
Mar 7 2008
PARENTS at a troubled Birmingham primary school have taken the unprecedented step of calling on Government inspectors to declare it as "failing"....
Mar 7 2008
A BIRMINGHAM pub landlord held at gunpoint by a masked gang today sent his attackers a defiant message: "You'll never drive me out"....
Mar 7 2008
A BOY of four was rescued by Birmingham firefighters after getting his head stuck in a headboard in a bedroom....
Mar 7 2008
MEDICS at Birmingham's City Hospital have helped save the lives of two poisoned Iraqi families....
Mar 7 2008
MORE than two dozen men have been charged over violent clashes between fans and police following the Blues v Villa second city derby....
Mar 7 2008
BUNGLING burglars were left looking like dummies when they broke into a Birmingham show home to steal a TV and computer....
Mar 7 2008
PARALYMPIANS Paul Shaw and Claire Cashmore are going for gold in Beijing....
Mar 7 2008
A BIRMINGHAM man was today starting three life sentences for the sadistic murder of a family of three with a hammer....
Mar 7 2008
MOBILE phone "fat cats" were condemned in the House of Commons when Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff urged Ministers to help customers who became victims of " dodgy business practices"....
Mar 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM'S historic Great Western Arcade is in line for a 21st century facelift of up to £1 million, restoring it to its Victorian glory....
