Articles...
Oct 13 2005
BIRMINGHAMS countdown to Christmas will start with a chart-topping line-up at a free concert to celebrate the city's lights switch-on....
Oct 13 2005
A 92-YEAR-OLD woman out for an afternoon stroll in a Birmingham park was crushed to death when a tree fell on her....
Oct 13 2005
MOBILE phone giant Vodafone has agreed to face-to-face talks with campaigners battling against a mast on parkland opposite their homes....
Oct 13 2005
SOLIHULL MP Lorely Burt has blasted the Government for claiming a second runway was needed at Birmingham International Airport by 2016....
Oct 13 2005
CHELMSLEY Wood and Solihull will be rocking to the sounds of a new radio station by next year....
Oct 13 2005
PLANS for a massive shake-up of services affecting the housebound and elderly in Solihull have been given the green light by the public....
Oct 13 2005
IT WAS during an election rally at Birmingham Town Hall where Margaret Thatcher famously declared "Britain needs an Iron Lady". ...
Oct 13 2005
DOZENS of redundant MG Rover workers completed South Birmingham College courses - only to be told their qualifications were unacceptable....
Oct 13 2005
FRAUD fighters in Worcestershire are spearheading a hard-hitting crackdown on benefit cheats who swindle millions of pounds each year. ...
Oct 13 2005
POLICE are appealing for information after a trailer was stolen from a yard in Alvechurch. ...
Oct 13 2005
CROOKS conned a pensioner into parting with £8,000 by telling her she had won up to £240,000 in a lottery. ...
Oct 13 2005
BOSSES at a waterways network have urged residents in Worcestershire to take time out to discover some of the county's historic sites. ...
Oct 13 2005
VANDALS scrawled racist words and symbols across a car parked outside a Redditch home, causing hundreds of pounds of damage. ...
Oct 13 2005
HODGE Hill MP Liam Byrne has called for a casino to be built at the National Exhibition Centre ahead of a rival scheme involving a £200 million new stadium for Birmingham City. ...
Oct 13 2005
HARBORNE library will be turning over a new leaf when it reopens in the spring after a major facelift. ...
Oct 13 2005
AN APPEAL has been launched for memorabilia of Billesley School,to be used in the school's 80th birthday celebrations next month. ...
Oct 13 2005
LONG-term Asian patients in Sandwell are easing pressure on NHS services thanks to a unique course delivered to them in Punjabi. ...
Oct 13 2005
BIRMINGHAM families were mopping up today as a SECOND tornado and flash floods brought the city to a standstill....
Oct 13 2005
A DAMNING report that branded Hall Green railway station among the worst in Britain was today dismissed by transport bosses and commuters. ...
Oct 13 2005
ILLEGAL in-car phone transmitters are set for destruction because they interfere with radio signals. ...
Oct 13 2005
TV newsreader and former Evening Mail reporter Suzanne Virdee is the girl who is going places - even if she decides to stay in her home town of Birmingham....
Oct 13 2005
THIS is the first picture of the appalling burns inflicted on brave Shae Thomas by an evil Birmingham shop bomber....
Oct 13 2005
THIS is the first glimpse inside Birmingham's historic Town Hall, which has been closed to the public for almost a decade and under wraps for the last two years....
Oct 13 2005
A LIVE TV charity appeal will tonight attempt to boost the £2 million raised in donations for the victims of the South East Asia earthquake....
Oct 13 2005
THE mother of a Birmingham man convicted of murdering schoolgirl Danielle Beccan today told how she could never return to the city....
Oct 13 2005
BIRMINGHAM author Maura Murphy, whose hard-hitting autobiography about her eventful life is currently riding high in the bestsellers' list, has died aged 77. ...
Oct 13 2005
A FORMER paramedic is to appear before the profession's standards watchdog accused of stealing medical equipment he intended to sell off on eBay, it was revealed today. ...
Oct 13 2005
TERRIFIED youngsters caught up in domestic violence were today thrown a lifeline in a Staffordshire blitz on drunken thugs who bully their families. ...
