Articles...
May 9 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S HP Sauce factory is to close, it was announced this afternoon....
May 9 2006
TOP television chef Antony Worrall Thompson has launched a new food show-case in Birmingham....
May 9 2006
A DISABILITY group today slammed the "petty bureaucracy" of a college which stopped a student using his mobility scooter on their grounds....
May 9 2006
YOUNG people from a Black Country church network were joined by friends visiting from America and Canada to give a brook on the Oldbury-Smethwick border a much-needed makeover....
May 9 2006
A REMOVAL firm worker who broke into a Solihull house and stole £6,000 worth of expensive electrical items he had helped deliver has been jailed for 15 months....
May 9 2006
PLANS for a 50-mile toll motorway linking Birmingham and Manchester have been condemned in a hard hitting report by MPs....
May 9 2006
PATIENTS and staff got a right Royal treat when Princess Alexandra opened a multi-million-pound orthopaedic centre in Redditch....
May 9 2006
RESIDENTS who raised a 500-name petition against plans to build a mobile phone mast on a Sutton housing estate met with council chiefs in a last-ditch bid to overturn the proposals....
May 9 2006
ANGRY Josephine Staien has launched a stinging attack on Solihull Council for dismissing her claims of a wasp infestation. ...
May 9 2006
A COMMUNITY centre which was forced to close its doors after its roof slid away from the walls has reopened after a two-year hiatus....
May 9 2006
A CHARITY football match is to be staged in memory of a "well-loved" amateur footballer who lost his battle against cancer....
May 9 2006
HEALTH chiefs have reassured residents that a new multi-million pound health centre planned for Droitwich will go ahead....
May 9 2006
A SERIES of colourful and classic plays will grace a Staffordshire stage to help entertain youngsters during half-term....
May 9 2006
DISABLED rail passengers in Sutton Coldfield are facing a long wait for vital new lifts after the Government snubbed the Royal Town's train station....
May 9 2006
A SCHEME to prevent would-be thieves reaping rewards in Staffordshire this summer has been launched....
May 9 2006
BUDDING musicians are being given a chance to sample the atmosphere of performing at a summer festival....
May 9 2006
ARCHAEOLOGISTS of the future will have a real shock if they ever decide to dig up the site of a new primary school currently being built in Rugeley....
May 9 2006
GANGS of unruly yobs who blight the lives of Redditch families will be consigned to history soon, police have vowed....
May 9 2006
A MAN who was raised from humble beginnings in Smethwick is busy creating a West Side Story set for a theme park in Germany. ...
May 9 2006
A GANG of youths hurled stones at cars near a park in north Worcestershire....
May 9 2006
SCHOOLCHILDREN in Stafford have been quizzing their classmates about the future of a picturesque town centre park....
May 9 2006
AN unforgettable day of entertainment has been planned for this year's Canwell Show....
May 9 2006
GREEN energy will be powering up a Dudley school from September after vital final funding came through to turn the dream into a reality....
May 9 2006
A SCHEME launched in Bromsgrove to tackle soaring levels of alcohol-fuelled violence and disorder in the town centre and Charford area has been hailed a success....
May 9 2006
A MAN caught with 480,000 counterfeit stamps valued at £140,000 has been jailed for a year....
May 9 2006
A YOUNG, sport-loving Walsall man who was one of two Thomson Holidays reps killed in a tragic road accident in Spain had only just started working there, it was revealed today....
May 9 2006
BIRMINGHAM buses will be ablaze with colour and character thanks to the efforts of Hockley schoolchildren. ...
May 9 2006
A BIRMINGHAM man has been banned from owning any animal for three years after he beat his mother's pedigree dog to death with a broom handle....
May 9 2006
SPECIALIST mechanical engineers were today carrying out a detailed forensic examination of fairground equipment which failed and left a woman with spinal injuries....
May 9 2006
THUGS pounced on a security guard as he made a delivery to a Birmingham supermarket, stealing thousands of pounds in loose change....
May 9 2006
SUPERFIT Paddy Doyle, who has more than 100 fitness titles under his belt, is hoping to break two more records when he competes for Great Britain later this year....
May 9 2006
A SEVERELY disabled Sheldon youngster is to get specialist help in London to learn how to walk - thanks to a celebrity appeal....
May 9 2006
WHY ARE we waiting? Disappointed residents in Aston want to know why a superstore planned for their neighbour-hood has simply never happened....
May 9 2006
TWO women in their 60s suffered burns in a suspected gas explosion in the Midlands....
May 9 2006
A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a man accused of a sparking a bomb scare at Birmingham International Airport....
May 9 2006
HUNDREDS of Midland workers with NTL Telewest were today braced for a savage jobs cull as the cable giant cuts its workforce by 6,000....
May 9 2006
BOSSES of troubled City and Sandwell Hospitals have unveiled plans on how they intend to select up to 800 staff for redundancy....
May 9 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S political leaders are plotting to silence new BNP councillor Sharon Ebanks....
May 9 2006
THE city of Birmingham said goodbye to one of its most outspoken and colourful politicians - Sir Anthony Michael Beaumont-Dark....
May 9 2006
CAR parking charges look set to soar at City and Sandwell Hospitals in a bid to bolster coffers for the debt-ridden trust....
