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Jun 22 2006
A CRACKDOWN on crime in Birmingham's entertainment district has seen a 29 percent fall in offending, West Midlands Police said....
Jun 22 2006
BIRMINGHAM MPs are to investigate whether American food giant Heinz may have broken assurances given to competition watchdogs over its takeover of HP Sauce....
Jun 22 2006
BROTHEL madam Linda Miller is set to shut up shop after admitting running a sex for cash business....
Jun 22 2006
TALKS over the future of the Birmingham vanmaker LDV are continuing - as the prospect of the company passing from American to Russian hands looked strong....
Jun 22 2006
PUPILS are settling into two £8 million Solihull schools which are the first in the country to have been built under a new scheme....
Jun 22 2006
POLICE were today continuing to quiz a man and a woman in connection with an alleged scam which saw scores of Bromsgrove youngsters miss out on seeing a World Cup match....
Jun 22 2006
A COMMUNITY group which has served the people of Tipton for more than 40 years is to receive an award from the Queen....
Jun 22 2006
A PEACE garden dedicated to murdered teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare is nearly completed and will be officially opened in September by former ITN news anchorman Sir Trevor McDonald....
Jun 22 2006
IT'S not the work of Doctor Who, but a Staffordshire police station looks set to take a huge step forward in time when its current home disappears forever....
Jun 22 2006
A POLICE negotiator was called to a church in Bromsgrove in a bid to convince a girl to climb down after she had scaled to the top of scaffolding surrounding the building....
Jun 22 2006
POLICe were today hunting a "muscular" robber who pushed a 14-year-old boy off his bicycle and stole it....
Jun 22 2006
POLICE today appealed for information after a shop assistant was left terrified when a gun-wielding robber forced her to hand over cash at a Midland store....
Jun 22 2006
BOURNVILLE will be ringing out the bells to celebrate 100 years of its rare carillon as musicians from across the world arrive for a festival of the instrument....
Jun 22 2006
COST-CUTTING measures by West Midlands Fire Service resulted in savings of £4.4 million last year....
Jun 22 2006
BUSES in the West Midlands are unreliable, dirty and poorly maintained, according to the body responsible for promoting public transport in the region....
Jun 22 2006
A MAN was in hospital today after his car ploughed into a brick pillar on a Midland driveway....
Jun 22 2006
MOTORISTS are being warned to travel different routes when several roads are closed this weekend....
Jun 22 2006
DEPUTY city council leader Paul Tilsley today demanded an urgent meeting with police chiefs to investigate Ms Miller's claims....
Jun 22 2006
IT WAS grim but not unexpected news - Birmingham has three of the worst jobless zones in the UK....
Jun 22 2006
POLICE today refused to confirm or deny reports that former Walsall manager Paul Merson is one of three men they want to quiz over allegations that a woman was drugged and raped....
Jun 22 2006
BIKERS performing dangerous stunts yards from where a mother was killed are being warned they will be hauled before the courts....
Jun 22 2006
THE DECISION to delay proposals to merge police forces in the Midlands has been welcomed....
Jun 22 2006
HEART FM DJ Ian Danter has suddenly quit the station after two-and-a-half years....
Jun 22 2006
A DEVOTED Slade fan wants BBC bosses to "feel the noize" of thousands of music lovers calling for the reinstatement of Top Of The Pops....
Jun 22 2006
FIVE men were today in hospital after the car they were travelling in careered off a Midland road and smashed head-on into a tree....
Jun 22 2006
HUNDREDS of Midland football fans are already taking advantage of extra flight seats to Stuttgart from Birmingham this weekend to see England play Ecuador....
Jun 22 2006
A TEENAGE girl has been left scarred for life after being beaten unconscious by two men armed with bottles....
Jun 22 2006
A CITY head teacher with almost 40 years spent working in Birmingham schools today blamed work pressure, stress and political correctness for damaging the profession he loves....
Jun 22 2006
PARENTS tearing their hair out at the thought of six weeks of looking after the kids can take advantage of a special scheme offering cheap days out....
Jun 22 2006
THOUSANDS of former MG Rover workers will get a mini-windfall in the next fortnight as a final payout from Longbridge lands on their door-mats, it was revealed today....
Jun 22 2006
A SOLIHULL man has been jailed after his Transit van took off as he drove over an island hitting another van, knocking its doors off, and ended up in the front garden of a house....
Jun 22 2006
BIRMINGHAM has more than 140 brothels operating under the guise of massage parlours, it has been claimed....
