Articles...
May 4 2006
THE parents of an academic from the West Midlands who was found stabbed to death at her home in January have spoken of their "inescapable grief"....
May 4 2006
ANOTHER 95 health job losses in Birmingham were announced today in the latest bombshell to hit the NHS in the region....
May 4 2006
A CATALOGUE of murder and misery lies behind the birdsong and heathland which has made Cannock Chase one of the Midlands' best-loved beauty spots....
May 4 2006
POLICE officers will be deployed to at least one Birmingham polling station to protect against vote-rigging in the local elections....
May 4 2006
A FORMER chief constable of West Midlands Police has been appointed to the House of Lords....
May 4 2006
A BUS driver has lost the sight in his right eye after being brutally attacked by a passenger....
May 4 2006
LEARNER drivers in Birmingham could face increased waiting times for driving tests because of plans to close a number of offices, a union has claimed....
May 4 2006
RESIDENTS living under siege for six years by animal rights activists welcomed the discovery of what appear to be the remains of Gladys Hammond's body....
May 4 2006
SHOCKED bus chiefs today offered a £1,000 reward as police stepped up their search for a vicious attacker who left a Birmingham bus driver blind in one eye....
May 4 2006
A RUNAWAY lorry carrying a JCB left a trail of devastation in a Birmingham street as it smashed into a railway bridge before ploughing into a dozen cars....
May 4 2006
BABY look at the three of you now! Birmingham Mail Baby of the Year 2006 competition winners have got together for the first time to decide who has the sweetest smile, the brightest eyes and the cheekiest grin....
May 4 2006
A HOODIE-wearing thug beat a shop worker and set a store alight in a motiveless attack, police today revealed....
May 4 2006
RAILWAY stations inaccessible to disabled West Midlanders have been ignored in a Government cash handout....
May 4 2006
A WARD for elderly patients is closing at a city hospital because of the ongoing NHS budget crisis, it was claimed today....
May 4 2006
A DISGRACED former soldier who took part in the street robbery of a 16-year-old boy has been given a chance to prove he has put his life back on track....
May 4 2006
A MIDLAND law student who fiddled a £22,000 loan in her husband's name in revenge after finding out he was having an affair with her younger sister has avoided prison....
May 4 2006
ALBION boss Bryan Robson has urged men across the Midlands to remember Bobby Moore by walking to beat the cancer which killed England's only World Cupwinning captain....
May 4 2006
PLANS for a major clampdown on anti-social motorists making residents' lives a misery by illegally parking across Staffordshire have taken a huge step forward....
May 4 2006
TOP performers are in Worcestershire as part of a three-week musical bonanza celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart....
May 4 2006
A ROADSHOW is touring Worcestershire in a bid to encourage residents to become a police special constable....
May 4 2006
AN uninsured Hall Green driver who panicked and led police on a six-mile chase past a number of schools in the middle of the afternoon has been jailed for ten months....
May 4 2006
RESIDENTS in a village near Bromsgrove are up in arms after discovering their local pub has been ordered to close....
May 4 2006
TELEVISION presenter and broadcaster Terry Wogan has been unveiled as the host for a classical music and firework spectacular in Staffordshire this summer....
May 4 2006
THE long vanished world of Birmingham's most famous toymaker has been brought back to life at the city's Central Library thanks to one man's treasured collection....
May 4 2006
BEAUTIFUL new baby Abigail Salt has been a real labour of love....
May 4 2006
TOWER block flats in one of the most sought-after locations in central Birmingham are to benefit from a £5.2 million facelift, it was announced today....
May 4 2006
A MOTORCYCLIST who died at a country lane accident blackspot was named by police today as Shahid Azamgarhi....
May 4 2006
VETERAN entertainer Malcolm Stent today declared he was as good as new - three months after nearly dying following a "simple operation hit by unforeseen complications"....
May 4 2006
A FURIOUS family claim a bus driver refused to let them on because of their double buggy....
May 4 2006
A PILE of dangerous asbestos has remained outside a Birmingham school for three days after being dumped on Bank Holiday Monday, teachers revealed....
May 4 2006
A MAN was stabbed to death in a "pointless and wicked" killing after he and others were attacked by three men during a race riot in Birmingham....