Articles...
Jun 28 2006
Four police officers standing trial over the death of a Birmingham man in custody have been cleared after a judge ruled police station CCTV evidence was unsafe....
Jun 28 2006
SOME 200 banking jobs are to go in Dudley when Barclays closes an office in the town as part of a shake up of services across the UK....
Jun 28 2006
A BIRMINGHAM TV runner has landed the plum role of new Blue Peter presenter after being spotted and put up for audition....
Jun 28 2006
WORCESTER City Council has again urged developers not to demolish a historic cricket pavilion which once hosted the Australian national team....
Jun 28 2006
A KILLER driver who mowed down Birmingham student Abigail Craen saw his jail sentence doubled by the Appeal Court in London this afternoon....
Jun 28 2006
CADBURY has suspended its Coronation Street sponsorship adverts after recalling chocolate bars in a salmonella scare....
Jun 28 2006
BOUNTY hunters are to be hired to tackle Birmingham's relentlessly rising rent debts problem....
Jun 28 2006
A MIDLAND mother's dream new life in New Zealand has been shattered after discovering both her children have been born with the crippling condition cystic fibrosis....
Jun 28 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S triple jump ace Ashia Hansen has urged the city to make the most of having a top athletics competition on home ground....
Jun 28 2006
FIREFIGHTERS were called to rescue a small dog trapped in a flamed-filled kitchen....
Jun 28 2006
SHOCKED families in a quiet cul-de-sac today spoke of their horror at the death of a couple in a blaze at their house....
Jun 28 2006
A MAN has been charged with raping a woman almost 16 years ago after the case was re-opened following a forensic breakthrough....
Jun 28 2006
ARSONISTS are believed to have sparked a fire at a park, police said....
Jun 28 2006
BIRMINGHAM has plunged more than 20 places in the annual "cost of living" table of world cities, it was revealed today....
Jun 28 2006
FORMER Aston Villa and England ace Paul Merson has been cleared of any involvement in the alleged drugging and rape of a woman....
Jun 28 2006
THE BBC should train Radio One DJ Chris Moyles in acceptable behaviour on the air after he used the word "gay" as an insult, according to an MP....
Jun 28 2006
OLD soldiers gathered yesterday to remember friends who perished in war....
Jun 28 2006
ANXIOUS drivers in Birmingham will soon be able to beat the traffic warden...without leaving the office....
Jun 28 2006
A DETERMINED bid to put the brakes on boy racers tearing around a supermarket car park making neighbours' lives hell is gathering pace in Tamworth....
Jun 28 2006
ANIMAL rescuers have made a heartfelt plea in a bid to find a loving Worcestershire home for two dogs who had been cruelly neglected....
Jun 28 2006
CAMPAIGNERS today called on Bromsgrove people to help their fight to save an historic village pub being closed to make way for bungalows....
Jun 28 2006
A FORMER college administrator has been awarded almost £9,000 after a tribunal ruled she was unfairly dismissed while she was off work sick....
Jun 28 2006
POLICE inquiries have been launched after an arson blaze which forced the evacuation of hundreds of pupils and staff at a Midland school....
Jun 28 2006
AN ARGOS employee who hid £1,000-worth of electrical goods in a fish tank box has had his custodial sentence for theft reduced....
Jun 28 2006
WEST Midlands Chief Constable Paul Scott-Lee has praised an anti-violence edict by 150 mosques across the West Midlands....
Jun 28 2006
A BABY died at five days old after a nurse failed to notice a tube had snapped off in an artery, an inquest in Birmingham heard....
Jun 28 2006
A 102-year-old woman broke down in tears as she re-lived her horrific ordeal at the hands of a would-be rapist....
Jun 28 2006
A RUBBISH tip is the last place you'd expect a youngster to want to spend his 13th birthday....
Jun 28 2006
A KILLER driver who mowed down Birmingham student Abigail Craen was facing an extended jail sentence today as he appeared in court to dis-cover his fate....
Jun 28 2006
THE confessions of a brothel keeper today triggered demands for a full scale and far reaching inquiry into the city massage parlours which are a front for sex....
