Articles...
Jun 14 2006
BIRMINGHAM companies are bracing themselves for a spate of "sickies" when England face Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup....
Jun 14 2006
THE Army's new 22 Signals Regiment will be based in Stafford, the Ministry of Defence announced....
Jun 14 2006
ALL of Birmingham's 76 secondary schools are to be rebuilt or redeveloped over the next 15 years in a £1 billion project to boost education in the city, it has been confirmed....
Jun 14 2006
DOZENS of families were this afternoon awaiting the all clear to return to their homes following the discovery of an unexploded World War Two bomb....
Jun 14 2006
TWO more former employees at the National Exhibition Centre's Metropole Hotel, including a Wootton Wawen man, have admitted taking part in a £250,000 conference booking scam....
Jun 14 2006
A FLAGSHIP housing management scheme run by Birmingham tenants may be wound up after failing to collect rents and being bailed out from debts by the council....
Jun 14 2006
THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised for suggesting to a new Asian councillor that she would be better off in Oldham or Burnley....
Jun 14 2006
FORMER top cop Ellie Baker today welcomed a report into the the way police handled the investigation into allegations about her....
Jun 14 2006
FAMILIES in Birmingham were celebrating today after a healing centre which sprang up on their doorstep without planning permission suddenly closed....
Jun 14 2006
GERMAN police officers are on patrol with British bobbies at Birmingham International Airport as part of World Cup policing plans....
Jun 14 2006
POLICE are warning teenage vandals daubing paint on a church that once caught they will have to clean it up....
Jun 14 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S HP workers today offered their hands across the water to appeal for international solidarity from Dutch colleagues set to inherit their work....
Jun 14 2006
BITTER workers at one of Birmingham's best-known factories sacrificed their pay rise to save jobs - only to be hit by a new wave of redundancies....
Jun 14 2006
TRANSPORT and business bosses in Birmingham are praying for sunshine as a new batch of M6 roadworks begins....
Jun 14 2006
A PHONE company today defended plans to site a 12-metre mast opposite a children's nursery....
Jun 14 2006
WORRIED residents wanting to log a complaint and job seekers hunting for work will be able to access improved services by the end of the month,...
Jun 14 2006
BIRMINGHAM reggae star Pato Banton is leaving the city for a new life in America, it emerged today....
Jun 14 2006
YOU'VE heard of podcasts. Well now police have their own version - the plodcast....
Jun 14 2006
Police today issued an urgent appeal for help to trace a teenage girl missing from home for a fortnight....
Jun 14 2006
A SEX fiend who carried out a series of attacks on women in and around a Birmingham rail station has been sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely....
Jun 14 2006
THE first of eight digital projectors will be installed in West Midlands cinemas by late summer, it was announced today....
Jun 14 2006
A NINE-year-old girl who has endured more than 15 operations to correct her curved spine is this month's Local Hero....
Jun 14 2006
A CRIME-BUSTING Midland special constable is really special - after being named the best in the country....
Jun 14 2006
DRILLING is to be carried out in the grounds of a Birmingham primary school - in a desperate search for water!...
Jun 14 2006
TWO young men who stole expensive digital projectors from the Solihull electrical shop where they worked were caught out after trying to sell them on eBay....
Jun 14 2006
MONEY being donated by Birmingham City Council to tornado victims comes from rent it earned from scaffolding put up around affected homes, it emerged today....
Jun 14 2006
A HUGE blaze swept through a Birmingham nightclub today - just days after gangsters doused it in petrol and threatened to burn it down....
Jun 14 2006
A ROUTINE trip to the shops could change teenage beauty Katherine Tildesley's life forever....
Jun 14 2006
POLICE were today hunting thieves who took a sports car left by the owner after running out of petrol....
Jun 14 2006
A DREAM birthday holiday turned into a nightmare after a couple were trapped for nearly six hours in a sweltering jet on a runway....
Jun 14 2006
A "DANGEROUS" armed gang is being hunted after a security van driver was threatened and handcuffed as they stole thousands of pounds in cash....
Jun 14 2006
MEET the Ra Ra boys! These four brave men will tonight become cheerleaders to give their support to an all women fun run for Cancer Research UK....
