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Oct 20 2005
A CONMAN who stole cash and jewellery from Birmingham pensioners was branded "wicked" by a judge - who then let him walk free from court....
Oct 20 2005
A £100 MILLION scheme is at last set to give supermarket giants Tesco a new store in Walsall town centre after an epic planning wrangle. ...
Oct 20 2005
FOUR people were taken to hospital after their car went out of control and ploughed into a garden wall in Sutton Coldfield. ...
Oct 20 2005
FIREFIGHTERS across the West Midlands are heading for another strike after last-ditch talks on pay collapsed....
Oct 20 2005
TRAGIC Castle Vale teenager Kayleigh Lavill was remembered as a "laid back tomboy" who touched many lives as hundreds of friends and relatives packed a church for her funeral....
Oct 20 2005
IMMIGRATION officials are reviewing a decision to deport an asylum seeker who found work as a nurse after spending three years training for the job at a British university....
Oct 20 2005
ALMOST 10,000 Birmingham children are still being put into primary school classes of more than 30, the Government admitted today....
Oct 20 2005
A DRIVER was cut free and taken to hospital today after his car smashed into a telegraph pole. ...
Oct 20 2005
A MAN was today fighting for life after being hit by a lorry. ...
Oct 20 2005
POLICE have been told of a second alleged rape connected to the one which has caused protesters to demonstrate on the streets in Perry Barr....
Oct 20 2005
A MAN and a woman were today being questioned by police after a three-week-old baby was found abandoned. ...
Oct 20 2005
NINE people have been arrested and fake goods worth more than £2 million seized in a Staffordshire blitz on car boot sale pirates, it emerged today. ...
Oct 20 2005
ALTON Towers will go ahead with three fireworks displays this month but must curb noise levels. ...
Oct 20 2005
IF Alexandra Hospital was run more efficiently there would be no need to axe vital services in a bid to save cash, says Redditch MP Jacqui Smith. ...
Oct 20 2005
A POLICEMAN smashed a major crime operation in Tamworth after discovering how burglars disabled a DIY store's alarm system, it emerged today. ...
Oct 20 2005
FIFTEEN 24-tonne pre-cast concrete flood relief arches have been installed at Rugeley bypass - putting in place half of the new flood relief link over the water meadows at Station Road. ...
Oct 20 2005
THE BISHOP of Lichfield has handed £20,000 to Midland family care groups after thousands of people missed six meals to help raise the cash. ...
Oct 20 2005
AN American historian and genealogist has vowed to find the killer of a Bromsgrove woman who was brutally murdered more than 60 years ago. ...
Oct 20 2005
POLICE are warning people to be on the lookout after conmen stole a gambling machine from a Bromsgrove pub. ...
Oct 20 2005
POLICE in Bromsgrove are attempting to puzzle together how a man was assaulted in an attack which saw him hit across his back. ...
Oct 20 2005
FURIOUS protesters are hoping a 'white elephant' bypass for Shenstone will be thrown out by the Government....
Oct 20 2005
A CITY secondary school has won favour from Government inspectors - after increasing in size. ...
Oct 20 2005
RECYCLING facilities in a Solihull village have been blasted as "rubbish". ...
Oct 20 2005
A MAN successfully underwent heart surgery and then died after he fell in a Birmingham hospital toilet, an inquest heard. ...
Oct 20 2005
NEARLY 200 Birmingham-bound passengers were involved in a safety scare when their Helios Airways flight was forced to land due to a technical fault....
Oct 20 2005
A BIRMINGHAM Labour Party worker accused of helping to organise a campaign of postal vote fraud has been cleared of any wrongdoing....
Oct 20 2005
RAIL bosses today promised more special trains than ever before to deal with the problem of leaves on the line in the West Midlands....
Oct 20 2005
A FATHER-of-two was forced to hand over the keys to his sports car at sword-point by masked raiders who burst into his home. ...
Oct 20 2005
A CRUMBLING secondary school feared to have been forgotten by funding chiefs is at last set to get cash for urgent repairs. ...
Oct 20 2005
STAFF at a doomed Black Country supermarket were today preparing to say their last goodbyes, with no offers of an 11th-hour rescue on the horizon. ...
Oct 20 2005
VILLAGERS are gearing up to renew their fight to veto plans for a motorway service station in Solihull. ...
Oct 20 2005
A COURT has fined a firm £2,000 and ordered it to pay £4,500 costs for selling potentially dangerous Christmas decorations. ...
Oct 20 2005
A MAN aged 28 was found dead at his home in Sedgley, it was revealed today. ...
Oct 20 2005
PET owners were warned today to be on their guard after two cats were snared in illegal and potentially lethal home-made traps in the Black Country. ...
Oct 20 2005
VISITORS to a Sutton Coldfield farm will come face-to-face with a huge real life bunny....
