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Oct 5 2005
PACK your bags for an action-packed adventure around the wonderful world of Disney!...
Oct 5 2005
A CITY licensing councillor claims the new system of allowing pubs and clubs to open later is working....
Oct 5 2005
A PROPOSED £32 million supercollege for north Birmingham may not now go ahead, it was revealed today....
Oct 5 2005
A MAN sparked a major scare at a school when he was seen carrying an air rifle nearby....
Oct 5 2005
A WOMAN was badly injured today falling 30ft from her flat after hoaxers led her to believe there was a fire....
Oct 5 2005
POLICE were today hunting a gunman who opened fire on a house in the Black Country....
Oct 5 2005
TWO teenage tearaways who made families' lives a misery on a Walsall estate have been made the subject of anti-social behaviour orders....
Oct 5 2005
A PUPIL found hanged at a boarding school was seen asleep by his roommate just hours before, an inquest heard. ...
Oct 5 2005
A MENTALLY ill mum, who drowned her infant son at a beach, went on the run after giving her security guards the slip from a Birmingham hospital....
Oct 5 2005
THOUSANDS of Hindus in Birmingham are celebrating the festival of Navaratri. ...
Oct 5 2005
A MIDLAND operatic group has been forced to switch towns for its production of The Full Monty - because it was seen as too racy....
Oct 5 2005
NO CONGESTION charge will be imposed on motorists heading into Birmingham city centre, transport chief Len Gregory has vowed. ...
Oct 5 2005
KNOWLE and Dorridge Lions celebrated another year's record fundraising when the club held its annual presentation evening at the Greswolde Hotel in Knowle. ...
Oct 5 2005
MUSLIMS with diabetes are being warned to put their health first with today's start of the holy month of Ramadan. ...
Oct 5 2005
MORE than 30 drivers were stopped in the latest stage of a crackdown on illegal rubbish dumping in Birmingham. ...
Oct 5 2005
THE misery of roadworks, traffic jams and power cuts could be about to end thanks to a new map charting the hidden underworld of the West Midlands. ...
Oct 5 2005
MOTORISTS face three months of motorway misery as a massive resurfacing project starts this weekend. ...
Oct 5 2005
NIGEL Snookes lived in squalor for more than two years as he fought with two landlords to have his flat repaired....
Oct 5 2005
SPECIAL stamps commemorating England's Ashes win were today launched at the scene of the greatest Test match in history. ...
Oct 5 2005
PATIENTS concerned for the future of their top performing ambulance service in a West Midlands NHS shake-up were today urged to have their say....
Oct 5 2005
A FAMILY'S three cars were stolen after thieves broke into their Tamworth home to get the keys. ...
Oct 5 2005
A CRACK unit of police set up to target serial criminals in north Worcestershire has been hailed a success in its first year. ...
Oct 5 2005
A MAN who stole more than £400,000 from the Solihull medical centre where he worked as practice manager has been jailed for four years. ...
Oct 5 2005
MIDLAND airwaves could be buzzing with the sounds of up to 14 new radio stations by the end of the year. ...
Oct 5 2005
INSTEAD of trying to throw drugs down the toilet when the police raided his dealer's home, addict Adam Bailey would have been better off throwing himself out of the window. ...
Oct 5 2005
A POPULAR Indian restaurant in West Bromwich has become the first in Sandwell to produce its menu in Braille. ...
Oct 5 2005
THE longest serving employee of a Black Country hospital trust has bowed out after 44 years' dedicated service. ...
Oct 5 2005
TEENAGER Chloe Miller's talent was last on show in front of millions on national TV and now the youngster will be taking centre stage in a Solihull production....
Oct 5 2005
A man who left his friend with a suspected broken jaw has been given a community sentence. ...
Oct 5 2005
A NEW Solihull-based television channel which only broadcasts programmes lasting less than five minutes is being launched. Smartbox, a new entertainment, interactive and information channel, pilots this week in pubs and clubs across England and Wales. ...
Oct 5 2005
A SOLIHULL man had an illegal gun at his home when he was finally arrested 15 years after committing an act of gross indecency with a teenage girl. ...
Oct 5 2005
17TH century hotel near Solihull, once home to Oliver Cromwell's troops during the English Civil War, has been given a 21st century facelift. ...
Oct 5 2005
POLICE have renewed appeals to trace the killers of man executed on his own doorstep. ...
Oct 5 2005
POLICE officers from the West Midlands have travelled to South Africa for the trial of a man in connection with the death of a former detective....
Oct 5 2005
GULLIBLE people who take controversial religious thriller the Da Vinci Code more seriously than the teachings of the Bible were criticised today by a leading Birmingham cleric....
Oct 5 2005
SAFETY inspectors are to investigate claims one worker was hurt and another narrowly missed serious injury at Jaguar's new production line in Birmingham. ...
Oct 5 2005
SIX women detained during a police raid on a city massage parlour will not be deported today as planned after immigration officials postponed a decision to send them home. ...
Oct 5 2005
A DOTING Midland father killed in a tragic motorcycle accident had found happiness with a new girlfriend following a marriage split, it emerged today....
Oct 5 2005
DISGRACED boxing legend Mike Tyson is to make a controversial visit to Birmingham - but as a speaker, not a fighter....
Oct 5 2005
EX-BLUES footballer Mark Ward was today starting an eight-year jail sentence for drugs trafficking. ...
