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Mar 23 2006
A BIRMINGHAM supply teacher who was accused of hitting a child twice with a ruler, but was not prosecuted, today won her legal battle to have her fingerprints, DNA sample and photograph destroyed within 28 days....
Mar 23 2006
BRITISH hostage Norman Kember and two colleagues have been freed in Iraq, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today....
Mar 23 2006
BROMSGROVE MP Julie Kirkbride has expressed disappointment that Gordon Brown's tenth Budget failed to deal with the rise in Council Tax bills....
Mar 23 2006
THE police authority covering Worcestershire has voted unanimously to continue to oppose the Home Secretary's plans to force a merger of the four forces in the West Midlands region....
Mar 23 2006
DIGGER giant JCB has announced plans to create up to 75 new jobs as part of a £2.5 million expansion at its Rugeley factory....
Mar 23 2006
CUSTOMERS booking months in advance for NEC shows will no longer be sent their tickets immediately....
Mar 23 2006
THE parents of a four-month-old Birmingham boy who died after his ventilator failed at a Birmingham hospital are considering legal action....
Mar 23 2006
AN urgent investigation has been ordered into the number of under-performing pupils taken off roll from Birmingham schools ahead of this summer's GCSE exams....
Mar 23 2006
ONE of Birmingham's hospitals is set to get the first ever Royal visit in its illustrious history....
Mar 23 2006
A GIRL was punched in the stomach as she walked to school in Evesham....
Mar 23 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S superbug Tsar fears that not enough is being done to stamp out MRSA in care homes across the city....
Mar 23 2006
WORSHIPPERS in Birmingham will be snapping on their rubber gloves and stepping into their wellies to spruce up the city's streets for Lent....
Mar 23 2006
WRESTLER Debbie Jones is grappling with a big problem - her club has no other female fighters and she has to make do with male opposition....
Mar 23 2006
STUNNED motorists have been hit with £60 parking fines - after council workmen painted yellow lines AROUND their cars in a Birmingham street....
Mar 23 2006
A HERITAGE trail is to be built to enable villagers and visitors to explore an ancient Roman village after environmental chiefs secured vital funding....
Mar 23 2006
CANAL loving actor David Suchet - famous for his TV role as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot - has plunged in to prevent a "crime" against history....
Mar 23 2006
ALSTOM is facing a "ground breaking" £1 million legal claim from the last of the workers axed at its now redundant Birmingham train making plant....
Mar 23 2006
BIRMINGHAM should launch a bid to host the World Cup as soon as this year's contest in Germany is over, an MP said today....
Mar 23 2006
GREEN-fingered Brummies will be able to pick the brains of the finest minds in horticulture when BBC's popular Gardener's Question Time comes to town next month....
Mar 23 2006
A MUM-of-three who posed as a police officer to raid a pensioner's home to get money for drugs has been jailed for two and-a-half years....
Mar 23 2006
BOSSES of troubled Good Hope Hospital have pledged not to sack frontline staff in its bid to claw back up to £47.5 million debts....
Mar 23 2006
WALSALL Council is taking permanent steps to prevent inconsiderate motorists causing damage at Bloxwich Cemetery - following a successful trial to stop vehicles going into the graveyard at weekends....
Mar 23 2006
THE contractor appointed by Sandwell Council to clamp down on parking problems has won praise for the performance of its traffic wardens....
Mar 23 2006
THE body of a middle-aged man has been found next to a Black Country railway line....
Mar 23 2006
A MAN who undertook an unmarked police car on the M6 and made an obscene gesture towards its driver before speeding off at up to 90 mph has been banned from driving....
Mar 23 2006
INTERNET bank users were today urged to be on their guard for identity thieves trying to trick them into revealing crucial passwords....
