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Apr 20 2006
A MOTORCYCLIST who careered off a Midland slip road and smashed head-on into a lamppost was today fighting for his life....
Apr 20 2006
PROTESTERS from across Staffordshire have travelled to London to oppose plans to merge the county's ambulance service into a regional body....
Apr 20 2006
THREE men and a Worcestershire teenage boy from died when the helicopter they were in crashed in "terrible" weather, an inquest has heard....
Apr 20 2006
BIRMINGHAM soldier James Piotrowski, jailed after going on the run with a stolen rifle, is set to become a father....
Apr 20 2006
TEACHER Philippa Jones, who was falsely accused of hitting a pupil, today slammed the lack of support given to state school tutors....
Apr 20 2006
COMMUTERS travelling through New Street station today gave the thumbs up to airport-style scanners aimed at cracking down on knife crime....
Apr 20 2006
A BIRMINGHAM Labour councillor, stripped of the party whip over allegations of bullying a colleague, is believed to have entered talks over a switch to the Liberal Democrats....
Apr 20 2006
TONY Blair has told Birmingham Children's Hospital it must learn to live within its means, after it warned it may have to cut services to save money....
Apr 20 2006
MILLIONS of pounds in electricity costs are to be saved at a Birmingham hospital with plans to fit a new green ecofriendly boiler system....
Apr 20 2006
POLICE today appealed for witnesses after a teenager was raped as she walked through Dudley on Good Friday....
Apr 20 2006
A FATHER died after being discovered unconscious by firefighters called to his home....
Apr 20 2006
INDUSTRY Secretary Alan Johnson today launched a savage attack on Peugeot - and accused the French firm of back-tracking on a promise to keep Ryton open until 2010....
Apr 20 2006
A MAJOR revamp of a theatre due to reopen this weekend has been hit by a series of snags, council chiefs revealed today....
Apr 20 2006
A MASSIVE blitz has seen 390 untaxed cars clamped or towed away in just two weeks in Birmingham....
Apr 20 2006
A QUICK thinking eight-year-old Midland girl has been praised by ambulance chiefs for her bravery after she came to the rescue of her mum....
Apr 20 2006
THE backers of a £500 million scheme to transform New Street Station have leapt to the defence of their plan after it came under heavy criticism....
Apr 20 2006
THE sister of a young Birmingham soldier who lost his life during World War II has rescued his memorial - from a skip....
Apr 20 2006
AN aerospace company in the Midlands has clinched a multi-million pound contract to design part of the engines for the world's largest passenger plane. ...
Apr 20 2006
A BIRMINGHAM transport expert today warned the city: "We face gridlock."...
Apr 20 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S new £5 million Leukaemia Centre is to get its long-awaited official opening after a long-running campaign from kind-hearted families....
Apr 20 2006
SECURITY guards were threatened with a gun as they delivered cash to a service station....
Apr 20 2006
THE preservation of Sutton Coldfield's unique heritage was top of the agenda when Andrew Mitchell MP met the head of the Royal Town's Civic Society....
Apr 20 2006
A DRINKER who punched a chef at a Solihull pub so hard he knocked one of his teeth out has been ordered to pay him £1,000 compensation....
Apr 20 2006
A TROUBLED medical centre scheme facing an £8 million funding shortfall will go ahead, health bosses pledged today....
Apr 20 2006
POLICE have vowed to take action against anyone suspected of trying to rig the voting at next month's Tamworth council elections....
Apr 20 2006
FALCON Lodge residents are hoping to thwart a new planning application for a mobile phone mast being erected in the estate....
Apr 20 2006
TEENAGE skateboarders in Great Barr could have their own dedicated facility built in a park, it was revealed today....
Apr 20 2006
ONE of the Black Country's most gifted table tennis players, Steve Cullis, has died aged 45, leaving a young son....
Apr 20 2006
A BRITISH National Party candidate is standing in the local elections in Redditch - the first time the controversial group has ever been represented in the Midland town....
Apr 20 2006
A BOXING champion has proved he still has plenty of punch as he prepares to turn 100 on Saturday....
Apr 20 2006
A CABBIES' bid to levy a taxi surcharge on thousands of passengers using Birmingham International Airport has been brought down to earth by city councillors....
Apr 20 2006
POLICE officers will face random drug tests under tough new measures being introduced....
