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May 6 2005
LABOUR won a historic third consecutive term in Government today, but the party faced a rough ride in Birmingham as voters switched sides in their thousands....
May 6 2005
TORIES narrowly failed to recapture leafy Edgbaston, the once 'true blue' city constituency which returned a Conservative MP for more than a hundred years....
May 6 2005
LABOUR rode out the MG Rover crisis to hang on to Northfield in what party members hailed as a victory as rivals failed to capitalise on the collapse of Longbridge....
May 6 2005
MILLIONAIRE entrepreneur John Hemming has become Birmingham's first Liberal Democrat MP....
May 6 2005
FORMER MG Rover workers who say they are suffering from serious lung disease are pressing ahead with compensation claims....
May 6 2005
BIRMINGHAM'S first Asian MP was today celebrating his return to Parliament with an increased majority....
May 6 2005
VICTORIOUS Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne promised to make life tough for drug dealers, street gangs and nuisance neighbours after holding the seat for Labour....
May 6 2005
THE Conservatives were forced out their traditional stronghold of Solihull in the most dramatic twist in the seat's 60-year history....
May 6 2005
DESPITE fears of potential banana skins, Labour had a comfortable night in the Black Country....
May 6 2005
LABOUR stalwart Clare Short saw her previously unassailable majority in Ladywood slashed by two-thirds....
