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Oct 4 2005
A SCHOOL cook, who championed the Jamie Oliver fight to encourage pupils to eat healthy food, has died suddenly. ...
Oct 4 2005
YOUNG choristers are to take part in a memorial service in honour of a former Birmingham choirmaster who was killed in a head-on collision in Hampshire last month. ...
Oct 4 2005
A BROTHER and sister have had a joyful reunion after being kept apart for more than 50 years by a family row. ...
Oct 4 2005
FORMER Blues star Mark Ward was facing a jail sentence today over a drugs offence. ...
Oct 4 2005
SHOCKING images showing brutal attacks on paramedics were released today as West Midlands Ambulance Service declared war on violence. ...
Oct 4 2005
MIDLAND train services were today back to normal after passengers endured eight days of disruption from a devastating vandal attack. ...
Oct 4 2005
FAMILIES living close to a notorious Midland accident hotspot today reacted with fury to the ripping down of a speed camera. ...
Oct 4 2005
A NEW £4.5 million cancer unit was being opened at a Birmingham hospital today by Britain's cancer tsar, Prof Mike Richards. ...
Oct 4 2005
A SCHOOLBOY found dead at a prestigious Midland school had only started there a month ago, it was revealed today. ...
Oct 4 2005
PUPILS and parents across the Midlands are being urged to leave the car behind and adopt a healthier way of getting to school. ...
Oct 4 2005
A SENIOR health official has refused to tell the public whether Orthopaedic Hospital chief executive Christine Miles will be reprimanded following a damning investigation. ...
Oct 4 2005
THOUSANDS of counterfeit CDs and DVDs, some with the latest films and others of explicit sex, were seized when police and trading standards investigators raided two Staffordshire car boot sales, a court heard. ...
Oct 4 2005
SHOPKEEPERS caught red-handed selling cigarettes to children were today threatened with fines of up to £2,500. ...
Oct 4 2005
A STAFFORD hospital's new £1.6 million cardiac unit will be given a VIP launch by the Princess Royal next month. ...
Oct 4 2005
A WAVE of vandalism which swept through Hednesford, near Cannock, has led councillors to call for an "alert box" to be installed in the town centre. ...
Oct 4 2005
TOILETS near Stafford's Shopmobility centre are being used as a drug den by junkies. ...
Oct 4 2005
A STAFFORD councillor has called for the public to be given more warning on changes to bus services after swingeing cuts to rural routes. ...
Oct 4 2005
A TEENAGE crimefighting duo have notched up another success by driving young hooligans out of a derelict home in Castle Bromwich. ...
Oct 4 2005
A "MENU" of options on how to preserve Worcestershire's hospital services and save £20 million a year are to be unveiled on Thursday. ...
Oct 4 2005
A VILLAGE in Wychavon district has won the title of Worcestershire Village of the Year. ...
Oct 4 2005
AMBITIOUS plans have been drawn-up for a £6 million boost for elderly care. ...
Oct 4 2005
IF you have always dreamed of calling yourself a lord but have given up hope of getting a peerage, then all you need is a spare £7,500. ...
Oct 4 2005
WEST Midlands MEP Malcolm Harbour is selling up his beloved Solihull cottage after two blocks of apartments were built around his period home. ...
Oct 4 2005
A SOLIHULL film student shortlisted for a national award will have his first film broadcast on the BBC. ...
Oct 4 2005
THE owner of a cockerel stolen from a Midland pub fears it may have been taken to be used in a cock fight. ...
Oct 4 2005
WORKERS at a historic Black Country factory which made anchor chains for some of Britain's biggest liners fear their jobs could be sunk and work shipped to India. ...
Oct 4 2005
MORE than 100 new jobs are coming to Smethwick with the launch of a massive new store in a £25 million shopping centre set to transform the town. ...
Oct 4 2005
TRAGIC teenager Kayleigh Lavill was today remembered as "17 going on 30" by grieving friends at the social club where she worked as a glass collector. ...
