Articles...
Apr 12 2006
A PENSIONER knocked down by a hit-and-run driver on a pelican crossing in Birmingham was today still critically ill....
Apr 12 2006
A COUPLE jailed for the "salt overdose" killing of a three-year-old boy they had planned to adopt won their appeals against conviction today....
Apr 12 2006
THE Birmingham-based international aid charity Islamic Relief has been awarded a £750,000 annual grant for the next five years, the Government has announced....
Apr 12 2006
THE family of a Bromsgrove man who died six days after he was assaulted in the town have appealed for help to find his attacker....
Apr 12 2006
TWO teenagers had to be rescued from a quarry in Tamworth after they plunged over the edge and became trapped, police have said....
Apr 12 2006
POLICE have released a photo of West Bromwich man they are hunting after he failed to comply with a drug testing order....
Apr 12 2006
DETECTIVES probing the suspicious death of a 64-year-old man in the Black Country have released CCTV images of a witness who may have information about how the victim suffered head injuries....
Apr 12 2006
A FORMER Birmingham soldier has been jailed for two years and nine months after downloading more than 113,000 images of child pornography from the internet....
Apr 12 2006
A BIRMINGHAM soldier jailed for more than five years for handling a stolen rifle was the victim of a "tragic injustice", a veterans' campaigner said today....
Apr 12 2006
A RESIDENT who led a campaign to help protect his Midlands community against animal rights extremists today pleaded to grave robbers to return Gladys Hammond's remains to her family....
Apr 12 2006
IMAGES of the new modern Birmingham are attracting fresh interest in the city from as far afield as France and Africa....
Apr 12 2006
A FORMER amateur footballer who assaulted an opponent who later died following another attack has been ordered to carry out a 180-hour community punishment order....
Apr 12 2006
POLICE in Droitwich have issued a description of a man they are hunting who pretended to be a police officer to gain access to a house in Vines Lane....
Apr 12 2006
POLITICIANS from across the West Midlands today demanded a Government rethink over plans to change the way thousands of older people collect their pensions and benefits....
Apr 12 2006
THE man at the helm of Nanjing has re-affirmed plans to restart car production at Longbridge next year - and said MG Rover should not have gone bust....
Apr 12 2006
TWO drunken Solihull bullies who attacked a 14-year-old boy and robbed him of his mother's mobile phone have both been jailed for two-and-a-half years....
Apr 12 2006
POLICE were today investigating the death of a young workman in a Birmingham shop amid claims that he and colleagues had been "play-fighting" moments before he collapsed....
Apr 12 2006
A BIRMINGHAM postie is to swap his mailbag and red van for a touring bike as he undertakes his lifetime ambition - a gruelling 3,000-mile cycle across Europe....
Apr 12 2006
BUSINESSES in the Midlands are the worst prepared in the country for a bird flu pandemic, a report revealed today....
Apr 12 2006
BUILDINGS in Willenhall's historic town centre could be given a facelift if a bid for lottery cash is a success....
Apr 12 2006
CONCRETE blocks, car wheels and shopping trolleys have been placed in front of 125mph inter-city trains in the West Midlands during a spate of new attacks....
Apr 12 2006
UP to 800 job losses are expected to be announced at a Birmingham hospital trust this week....
Apr 12 2006
A MYSTERY rescuer is poised to swoop for Firmin & Sons just days after Birmingham's oldest company ran out of money with a £2 million pension debt....
Apr 12 2006
THE long-awaited rebuild of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has finally received the green light, Tony Blair was announcing today....
Apr 12 2006
A CROOKED celebrity psychic who betrayed the trust of elderly people in the Midlands and fleeced them of thousands of pounds was facing a jail sentence today....
