Articles...
Apr 13 2006
A CONSIGNMENT of mobile phones worth £67,000 has been stolen from a lorry parked in Coleshill....
Apr 13 2006
EDGBASTON MP Gisela Stuart is leading a campaign to save the city's phone boxes....
Apr 13 2006
A MAN barred from every pub in his area hit a landlord with a sock containing two billiard balls as he was being ushered out of his premises, a court heard....
Apr 13 2006
IRRESPONSIBLE motorists have been hit hard in the pocket for driving whilst chatting on their mobile phones....
Apr 13 2006
POLICE in Redditch have warned shoppers to be vigilant after a pensioner had her purse stolen....
Apr 13 2006
CANNOCK Chase District Council has pledged to keep Cannock Sports Stadium open until new facilities are built in the area....
Apr 13 2006
A NEW scheduled service connecting Birmingham and Krakow in Poland for the first time has taken off....
Apr 13 2006
A BRAVE Good Samaritan was fighting for life today after jumping into a Birmingham canal to try to rescue a drowning man....
Apr 13 2006
BIRMINGHAM women are the biggest cakeaholics in Britain, according to a survey out today....
Apr 13 2006
A BIRMINGHAM man who admitted his part in a plot to smuggle cannabis worth £430,000 into the Midlands has been jailed for four years....
Apr 13 2006
MORE than £500,000 is to be spent on helping to turn around failing or struggling schools in Birmingham, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly announced today on a visit to the city....
Apr 13 2006
A FATHER of one who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed for three years....
Apr 13 2006
FOR 30 years Tim Platt was a familiar face among the punters downing a pint or two at a pub in a leafy Midlands village....
Apr 13 2006
THE couple freed by the Court of Appeal after their convictions for poisoning a three-year-old foster boy with salt were quashed, were back home in the Midlands today....
Apr 13 2006
THE hunt for a thug who threatened to blast a pensioner with a shotgun in a Midlands post office raid has switched to Birmingham....
Apr 13 2006
A GANG of youngsters are being hunted by police after a motorist narrowly escaped being crushed to death by a concrete block hurled off a bridge....
Apr 13 2006
THE streets of Sparkhill were awash with colour as worshippers gathered this week to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed....
Apr 13 2006
A CELEBRITY psychic who conned a widow out of thousands of pounds by claiming he was in contact with her late husband has been jailed for 18 months....
Apr 13 2006
A HOUSE of Commons inquiry into MG Rover is to visit Birmingham to hear evidence from those directly affected by the firm's collapse....
Apr 13 2006
A HERO policeman bravely clung to the bonnet of a car on a 70 mph terror ride as he tried to stop burglars....
Apr 13 2006
TEACHERS' leaders meeting in Birmingham today criticised the Government's flagship education reforms and demanded a halt to Tony Blair's controversial plans for 200 city academies....
Apr 13 2006
AN angry Birmingham vicar today hit out at the decision to play the crunch Villa-Blues derby at noon on Easter Sunday - one of the biggest days in the Christian calendar....
Apr 13 2006
WARD closures, as well as hundreds of job cuts, were being announced at two Midland hospitals today....
Apr 13 2006
STAFF at a Redditch hospital, which is facing threats of service cuts, are celebrating after getting the all-clear from the hospital superbug MRSA....
Apr 13 2006
THE Birmingham Mail is making major changes to its sports coverage from the end of the 2005/2006 football season....
Apr 13 2006
EMERGENCY measures were put into action to ensure more than 600 security cameras would not have to be switched off after a delay securing vital licences....
