Jun
2006
Articles from 14th Jun 2006
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City companies fear World Cup 'sickies'
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM companies are bracing themselves for a spate of "sickies" when England face Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup. Read
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Army regiment to move into ex-RAF base
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
THE Army's new 22 Signals Regiment will be based in Stafford, the Ministry of Defence announced. Read
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£1billion rebuild plan for city schools
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Homes evacuated after bomb discovery
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Two admit £250,000 NEC booking swindle
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Warning to church vandals
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE are warning teenage vandals daubing paint on a church that once caught they will have to clean it up. Read
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Tornado cash 'comes from rents'
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Thieves caught selling on auction site
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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There's water in them there fields!
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
DRILLING is to be carried out in the grounds of a Birmingham primary school - in a desperate search for water! Read
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Special scoops top cop award
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A CRIME-BUSTING Midland special constable is really special - after being named the best in the country. Read
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Smiling Georgia is hailed a true hero
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A NINE-year-old girl who has endured more than 15 operations to correct her curved spine is this month's Local Hero. Read
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Region to get digital cinema
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
THE first of eight digital projectors will be installed in West Midlands cinemas by late summer, it was announced today. Read
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Railway sex fiend is detained
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Police hunt for missing girl
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
Police today issued an urgent appeal for help to trace a teenage girl missing from home for a fortnight. Read
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Police go hi-tech with 'plodcasts'
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
YOU'VE heard of podcasts. Well now police have their own version - the plodcast. Read
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Pato selling up for new life in America
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM reggae star Pato Banton is leaving the city for a new life in America, it emerged today. Read
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New centre to offer services for residents
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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, Read
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Mobile phone firm defiant over mast
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A PHONE company today defended plans to site a 12-metre mast opposite a children's nursery. Read
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Looking on the sunny side of road chaos
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
TRANSPORT and business bosses in Birmingham are praying for sunshine as a new batch of M6 roadworks begins. Read
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Jobs axed - after staff gave up pay rise
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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HP union leaders go Dutch
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM'S HP workers today offered their hands across the water to appeal for international solidarity from Dutch colleagues set to inherit their work. Read
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Give it up for the Ra Ra boys!
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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German police to help patrol airport
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
GERMAN police officers are on patrol with British bobbies at Birmingham International Airport as part of World Cup policing plans. Read
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Families pleased as centre closes
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
FAMILIES in Birmingham were celebrating today after a healing centre which sprang up on their doorstep without planning permission suddenly closed. Read
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Ex-cop welcomes inquiry report
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
FORMER top cop Ellie Baker today welcomed a report into the the way police handled the investigation into allegations about her. Read
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Council leader sorry for race row
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Council bails out housing scheme
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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City nightclub destroyed by blaze
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A HUGE blaze swept through a Birmingham nightclub today - just days after gangsters doused it in petrol and threatened to burn it down. Read
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Catwalk call for Katherine
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A ROUTINE trip to the shops could change teenage beauty Katherine Tildesley's life forever. Read
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Car with no fuel is stolen
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE were today hunting thieves who took a sports car left by the owner after running out of petrol. Read
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Birthday break turns into a nightmare
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A DREAM birthday holiday turned into a nightmare after a couple were trapped for nearly six hours in a sweltering jet on a runway. Read
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Armed gang target security van
Jun 14 2006 | Top Stories
A "DANGEROUS" armed gang is being hunted after a security van driver was threatened and handcuffed as they stole thousands of pounds in cash. Read
