Articles...
Jun 2 2006
HP SAUCE owners Heinz sparked further gloom among its workforce by revealing 2,700 jobs were being shed to cut costs....
Jun 2 2006
A TRADER who ran an unlicensed back street chicken cutting factory has been slammed for risking public health by leaving the business like a "pig sty"....
Jun 2 2006
A FAMILY given notice to quit their home while they were on holiday can stay - after the Black Country Mail highlighted their case....
Jun 2 2006
DETECTIVES were today hunting two perverts who attempted to kidnap a girl as she walked along a Solihull street....
Jun 2 2006
THREE horses were led to safety after a fire threatened to engulf their stables at a Solihull farm early today....
Jun 2 2006
BIRMINGHAM hospital workers are getting their feathers in a flap over a mother duck who has nestled down and given birth outside one of the wards....
Jun 2 2006
POLICE were today hunting more than a dozen known soccer thugs who have failed to hand in their passports ahead of the World Cup....
Jun 2 2006
A GRIEVING widow told today how she is battling to come to terms with the death of her childhood sweetheart for the sake of their three young children....
Jun 2 2006
A BIRMINGHAM mother with a ten-month-old son has been jailed for 20 months after she was caught smuggling drugs into prison while visiting her boyfriend....
Jun 2 2006
MORE than 2,500 Muslims have launched a battle to save their local Halal slaughterhouse....
Jun 2 2006
CULTURE Secretary Tessa Jowell is being urged to overturn the decision to reject every bid for a regional casino in the West Midlands....
Jun 2 2006
HUNDREDS of eager shoppers queued up to be amongst the first to use a new supermarket in West Bromwich....
Jun 2 2006
PARENTS are being ripped off by sports shops which over-price children's World Cup shirts, according to a consumer watchdog....
Jun 2 2006
POLICE stab vests have been given the all-clear following fears from frontline cops that the equipment was not be up to the job....
Jun 2 2006
A CRACK team of investigators driving loan sharks off the streets of Birmingham feature in a BBC documentary on debt next week....
Jun 2 2006
THREE men escaped with minor injuries after their car ploughed into a ditch and overturned....
Jun 2 2006
A TODDLER tragically drowned after falling into a pool on a trip to the park to enjoy the sun....
Jun 2 2006
ADVENTURER David Carrington-Porter thinks nothing of climbing three mountains in the space of a weekend - despite being totally blind....
Jun 2 2006
IN a terrible twist of fate, a father and son found themselves lying next to each other in hospital both requiring heart transplants....
Jun 2 2006
STUDENTS have joined the Government in urging lecturers and university bosses to "end the suffering" of thousands of undergraduates as industrial action disrupts exams....
Jun 2 2006
A DRIVER had a "lucky escape" today after his car ploughed over a Birmingham traffic island and smashed into a fire station stop sign before coming to rest on the forecourt....
Jun 2 2006
GOVERNMENT culture chiefs are considering adding HP to a list of England's most important icons - although it could soon be made in Holland....
Jun 2 2006
A BLACK Country teenager who assaulted two police officers because he did not want to be arrested on his birthday for burglary was jailed for eight months by a court....
