Articles...
May 2 2006
A TRAIN passenger who answered a graffiti advert on a toilet door asking for eight to 13-year-old girls for sex led to the discovery of a paedophile ring which included a Worcester man....
May 2 2006
A national campaign to stop children risking their lives by trespassing on rail tracks will stop off in Wolverhampton as part of its tour around England and Scotland....
May 2 2006
GRASS verges across the city are being churned up and pavements destroyed by cars because of the "astronomical" cost of installing dropped kerbs, it is claimed....
May 2 2006
UP TO 90,000 workers in Jobcentres, benefit offices and the Child Support Agency were starting a 48-hour strike today over job cuts....
May 2 2006
A FORMER BNP leader is backing an Asian candidate in next week's local elections....
May 2 2006
A MIDLAND headteacher has led calls for schools to consider legal action against pupils who falsely accuse their staff of abuse....
May 2 2006
A FIGHT for one of the last swathes of greenbelt land in Tamworth is mounting with 5,000 residents being armed with the power to save it....
May 2 2006
CONTROVERSIAL business leader Jerry Blackett was today named as new chief executive of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry on a salary of £120,000-a-year....
May 2 2006
SCORES of police could be drafted in to guard Birmingham polling stations at Thursday's local elections amid growing fears the day will be marred by postal ballot fraud....
May 2 2006
SIX West Midlands Police officers are to be investigated over internal claims that they used excessive force in arresting and detaining a man, it was revealed today....
May 2 2006
THE grave of a tragic 15-year-old Birmingham schoolgirl who hanged herself at her family home has been desecrated four times since her death....
May 2 2006
TWO new developments of luxury homes are planned for Solihull after the town was labelled a "hot bed" for building and selling property....
May 2 2006
A BLOCK of Erdington maisonettes were given a stay of execution after its demolition was called off at the 11th hour when workmen discovered the gas supply had not been cut off....
May 2 2006
SECURITY staff have been told to get tough on smokers who snub a 'no lighting up' ban at a Midland hospital....
May 2 2006
A "NO luxuries" ban has been slapped on nearly 2,000 asylum seekers who have jumped the queue for Birmingham city council homes....
May 2 2006
A 52-YEAR-OLD arthritic circus elephant called Annie is at the centre of an animal rights protest....
May 2 2006
THE mother of a Birmingham man murdered by a released Jamaican drug dealer has called on Home Secretary Charles Clarke to quit....