Articles...
Sep 23 2005
A MIDLAND teaching assistant was repeatedly stabbed by a hooded carjacker in a broad daylight attack outside her primary school today....
Sep 23 2005
LONGBRIDGE owners Nanjing plan to go cap in hand to the Government for millions of pounds of state aid to resume production at the Birmingham car plant....
Sep 23 2005
BIRMINGHAM Coroner Aidan Cotter has called for "better communication" between the authorities and prisons to try to prevent the deaths of prisoners in cells. ...
Sep 23 2005
TWO of the Midlands' most wanted men have given themselves up and another has been arrested after police put their faces on the internet. ...
Sep 23 2005
COVENTRY appears to have taken pole position in the race to open Britain's first super casino, raising the possibility it might take Birmingham ten years to catch up....
Sep 23 2005
HERO paramedic Steve Hall won't forget April 19 in a hurry....
Sep 23 2005
A MEETING over the expansion of Coventry Airport ended in chaos last night amid claims that the local authority was now in a "vacuum". ...
Sep 23 2005
BOOMING Birmingham's inner-city regeneration has helped two prestigious hotels perform "fantastically". ...
Sep 23 2005
MIDLAND squaddie Phillip Hewett foretold his own death in an Iraqi bomb blast saying: "We are training them in the day and they are murdering us at night'....
Sep 23 2005
DOZENS of firefighters were called to Coventry City's old ground last night to tackle a massive blaze. ...
Sep 23 2005
SENIOR politicians today admitted for the first time that they believe many speed cameras in the West Midlands are there purely to raise cash....
Sep 23 2005
A BIRMINGHAM teenager has been missing for more than a week after he went out to look for work. ...
Sep 23 2005
LUXURY car maker BMW have launched a broadside against Birmingham National Exhibition Centre claiming it was too costly to show its top vehicles there. ...
Sep 23 2005
A FOURTH man has been arrested by police probing a suspected race attack on a Midland family. ...
Sep 23 2005
A RACE relations chief's claim that the country is sleepwalking into New Orleans-style segregation were today slammed as 'offensive' by a city MP. ...
Sep 23 2005
THE first thing that crossed mother Laura Cooke's mind when she was diagnosed with breast cancer was alarmingly simple....
Sep 23 2005
BIRMINGHAM is bucking an alarming national trend for rising levels of booze-fuelled crime, new figures show today. ...
Sep 23 2005
TWO high-rise blocks in the Black Country are to undergo a massive £4.8 million refurbishment....
Sep 23 2005
POLICE today issued a fresh appeal for information on a chef who has gone missing without his vital medication. ...
Sep 23 2005
A TORY MP has vowed to fight any move to merge Staffordshire Police with its West Midlands neighbour. ...
Sep 23 2005
TAXPAYERS across the city will pick up the bill for £1 million paid to council tenants in compensation for delayed repairs to their homes. ...
Sep 23 2005
PUBS and clubs across Birmingham will soon be tuning in to a new TV station broadcasting from Sutton Coldfield. ...
Sep 23 2005
PIGEONS will be stopped from ruining Birmingham's heritage following a revamp of Corporation Street's historic buildings. ...
Sep 23 2005
HOUSING association bosses have paid £25,000 to help drive teenage gangs off the streets on a crimeblitzed Midland estate. ...
Sep 23 2005
A BID to convert a 20-storey office block dubbed "one of Birmingham's ugliest" has been given the thumb- up by city heritage bosses. ...
Sep 23 2005
A GREAT great grandmother has made a miraculous recovery from a double heart attack - after being visited by a Birmingham hospital priest....
Sep 23 2005
FRANTIC neighbours flagged down a fire engine because they feared a family were trapped in their burning home - only to be told the 999 appliance could not stop....
Sep 23 2005
A FIRE engine was turned back as it sped to a house fire in Birmingham - to save just £50, it was claimed today....
