Articles...
Mar 14 2006
PASSIONS are running high in the battle to try to bring a super-casino to the West Midlands....
Mar 14 2006
WHATEVER the NEC/MGM are offering, understand that it amounts to no more than false hope....
Mar 14 2006
THE time for emotion is over. It's time to unite behind a bid that can win for Birmingham, Solihull and the West Midlands. And that's exactly what the NEC regional casino proposal can do....
Mar 14 2006
A 42-YEAR-OLD man is being treated in hospital after he was found with multiple stab wounds outside a pub in Stafford, police said....
Mar 14 2006
SCHOOL friends and teachers of tragic Alisha Begum were today saying prayers for the six-year-old arson attack victim in a special assembly....
Mar 14 2006
A DRIVER was badly injured when his car crashed into a tree - just days after three young men died in an almost identical accident at the same spot....
Mar 14 2006
FURIOUS parents were today preparing for battle as the fight to get sex offenders moved from a Black Country probation hostel reached Whitehall....
Mar 14 2006
DRIVERS are facing delays on a busy road in Staffordshire after a £340,000 improvement scheme swung into action....
Mar 14 2006
FOUR music-loving pals have realised a life-long dream and opened their own recording studio....
Mar 14 2006
TWO new mobile police stations will be opened up in Staffordshire to give residents crime busting advice....
Mar 14 2006
A WARDEN who helps keep Quinton's streets clean was at the centre of a bitter row between Labour and the Tories today....
Mar 14 2006
YOUNGSTERS will be teaching the elderly how to become expert "silver surfers" on the internet, thanks to new projects being set up in Droitwich....
Mar 14 2006
A BUDDING young actor is sought to complete the line-up for a stage production in Droitwich Spa....
Mar 14 2006
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme which may change the face of Shirley forever has moved a step closer....
Mar 14 2006
IT'S back to the Swingin' Sixties for Brummie favourites Malcolm Stent, Don Maclean, Lizzie Wiggins and Dave Sealey who are rejoining forces for a sequel to the immensely popular stage show Go and Play Up Your Own End....
Mar 14 2006
A BIRMINGHAM postman has been sacked after a brawl with a Royal Mail manager at a private party....
Mar 14 2006
A PIONEERING trial carried out at a Birmingham hospital could help end the headache hell of migraine sufferers across the world....
Mar 14 2006
FOOTBALL club bosses today launched an unprecedented attack on West Midlands police officers blaming them for fuelling trouble at a Midland match....
Mar 14 2006
A BIRMINGHAM pensioner who was critically injured in an accident in Sutton Coldfield has lost his battle to survive....
Mar 14 2006
A DISGUSTED dad today poured scorn on Birmingham City Council's anti-truancy crackdown, branding it a "sham"....
Mar 14 2006
A FURIOUS father was stopped from taking his two-year-old son swimming because he was told his trunks "might cause offence"....
Mar 14 2006
AN all-conquering football team of fish and chip shop owners has 'battered' the opposition to take away their first cup for a decade....
Mar 14 2006
THE father of a Solihull-born soldier killed in Iraq said the Government had "come to their senses" over a decision to withdraw troops from the conflict....
Mar 14 2006
TRIBUTES have continued to pour in for Robert, from Kings Heath, Stuart, from Warstock, who were both aged 21, and 22-year-old Adrian, from Northfield, who died on Friday....
Mar 14 2006
A SOLIHULL man who bit off part of another man's ear in an unprovoked attack in a bar has escaped being jailed - but has been ordered to pay his victim £1,000 compensation....
Mar 14 2006
A BILSTON man who killed a close friend when he ploughed his BMW into a bridge support just five days after he was banned from the roads for the eleventh time was today starting a five year jail sentence....
Mar 14 2006
HOPES are high that a Midland bakery which went into administration last year could start trading again....
Mar 14 2006
YOUNG fans of steeplejack Fred Dibnah are set to have a dream come true later this month when they meet their hero's widow....
Mar 14 2006
CANDIDATES standing at the May local council elections in Solihull have been banned from using lamp-posts to display their posters....
