Feb
2006
Articles from 3rd Feb 2006
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Roll up for the eco-fair
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
WALSALL Council staff have launched a scheme to help local people conserve energy, reduce waste, and recycle more. Read
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Serial office thief jailed for three years
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE have welcomed a three-year jail sentence handed to a serial burglar who targeted businesses across the West Midlands. Read
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Why I was right to kill my great aunt
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Mail columnist Maureen Messent reveals today how she killed her beloved great aunt as she lay on her deathbed. Read
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Cricket club makes it 60 not out
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
MEMBERS of a Sutton cricket team are hoping to trace former players to help celebrate the side's 60th anniversary. Read
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Police await results on 'bomb'
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE were today waiting to hear whether a suspect device which sparked an evacuation in Droitwich was an unexploded World War Two bomb. Read
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Protesters fight on to save hospital
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A HUGE banner is to be placed across the front of Redditch Town Hall calling for services threatened with the axe at the Alexandra Hospital to be saved. Read
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Deal to keep repairs on track
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
TAMWORTH council bosses have signed a partnership deal with tenants aimed at keeping thousands of families happy over housing repairs. Read
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New bus route a tonic for city patients
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
BOSSES at Birmingham Women's Hospital have created a new bus route to help patients and visitors get to the wards. Read
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Air fares Virgin on ridiculous
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A PRICE war is hotting up between trains and planes out of Birmingham. Read
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£500 rents 'bribe' fury
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A NEW scheme which pays council tenants up to £500 if they pay their rent on time was today branded an outrageous waste. Read
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Broad Street getting safer - police
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM'S Best of Broad Street awards could hardly have been launched at a better time. Read
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Helath bosses hit back in bed dash row
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
GOVERNMENT health bosses today hit back at the wave of criticism which followed their decision to take a Midlands woman expecting twins on a 110-mile ambulance dash. Read
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Dad hits out at pervert's sentence
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A GIRL of 13 groomed and repeatedly raped by twisted paedophile Nigel Preiss took two overdoses in despair at his jail sentence of just five-and-a-half years. Read
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Rugby star Kenny brings joy to kids
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
SICK youngsters at Birmingham Children's Hospital got a celebrity boost when rugby star Kenny Logan dropped in for a flying visit. Read
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Riddle of OAP found in street
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE today appealed for help identifying a pensioner who collapsed and died. Read
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Dad to sue again over police raid 'mix-up'
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A FATHER of five who successfully sued police after cash went missing is set to sue them again after a mistaken armed raid at his house. Read
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Name-row school suspends governor
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
ILL-feeling over a proposed controversial name change to a city school has intensified - with a governor suspended for opposing the scheme. Read
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Yobs force tennis club to close
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
IT HAS been a little oasis of calm and tranquillity in an expanding inner city suburb for 122 years. But now vandals have forced Yardley Tennis Club to give up the game. Read
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Wedding strangers are chosen
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
THE two people who will marry after winning BRMB's Two Strangers and a Wedding competition were revealed today as Rebecca Duffy and Craig Cooper. Read
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New schools shut by bug outbreak
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
THE virulent sickness bug sweeping the West Midlands today claimed several more primary schools in Birmingham that were forced to close their doors. Read
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Council tax to rise below inflation
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
FAMILIES in Birmingham face a below-inflation 1.9 per cent increase in their council tax bills - one of the lowest in Britain. Read
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Reduced sentence for Tushar killers
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
TWO teenage burglars jailed for their part in killing award-winning Birmingham DJ Tushar Makwana have had their sentences cut. Read
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Machete attack at city job centre
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
A MACHETE wielding thug who attacked an interpreter at a packed Birmingham job centre before walking calmly away was today being hunted by police. Read
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Metro chaos as two die in car crash
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
TWO women were killed in a hump-backed bridge horror crash which brought chaos to the Midland Metro system. Read
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Egyptian cruise ship sinks in Red Sea
Feb 03 2006 | Top Stories
AN Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people, mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, has sunk in the Red. Read
