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Jul 11 2006
A 21-YEAR-OLD has been arrested in connection with an incident in which a man was stabbed and set on fire as he walked through a Walsall nature reserve, police said....
Jul 11 2006
POLICE are searching a canal for a missing 36-year-old man from Tipton....
Jul 11 2006
A WOMAN who was thrown from a fair-ground ride more than two months ago is still in hospital with serious spinal injuries, it was revealed today....
Jul 11 2006
A NEW team of cycle officers in Bilston have got into gear after making their first arrest following a tip-off from the public....
Jul 11 2006
ONE of the main routes in Solihull will go live as a Red Route at the end of August....
Jul 11 2006
A EURO-MP'S plan to take 45 gurning Brummies to pull faces at the European president in Strasbourg has been condemned....
Jul 11 2006
CAMPAIGNERS are set to stage a protest this weekend against plans to axe maternity, emergency gynaecology and children's services at a Redditch hospital....
Jul 11 2006
COLOURFUL memories of a city florist who died from cancer continue to bloom after a festival was named in his honour....
Jul 11 2006
HUNDREDS of mourners packed a city church to say a final farewell to a much-loved Birmingham trucker....
Jul 11 2006
HANGING basket thieves are causing problems for householders in Dudley....
Jul 11 2006
RESCUERS have called off the full-scale search for a Midland father of two after an Alpine paragliding accident....
Jul 11 2006
A FEUD between a Birmingham MP and a city council chief has been aired in the House of Commons....
Jul 11 2006
A LANDLORD from Wychavon has been fined after failing to put fire alarms and safety doors in seven flats he rents out - despite the council stumping up cash for the work....
Jul 11 2006
A MIDLANDS man has been convicted of breaching his anti-social behaviour order....
Jul 11 2006
A DRIVER and his passenger were injured after a car lost control and careered off a Midland road before crashing into a hedge....
Jul 11 2006
A BIRMINGHAM MP has defended Tory leader David Cameron's claim that hoodies need more love....
Jul 11 2006
TRIBUTES poured in today for a Birmingham University graduate stabbed to death in Washington DC....
Jul 11 2006
THE mum of dumped Birmingham twins Holly and Joseph today revealed why she abandoned them - she conceived them in a secret affair behind her husband's back....
Jul 11 2006
STAFFORD'S new Mayor is courting controversy for ditching a religious tradition just six weeks after donning his chains of office....
Jul 11 2006
MOTORISTS in Stechford who already face daily delays around the heavily congested Flaxley Road Industrial Estate are being warned of further problems from August 7....
Jul 11 2006
FORMER world champion Wilf O'Reilly today called on thousands of his fellow-Brummies to back a campaign to bring a £25 million ice rink scheme to the city....
Jul 11 2006
A YOUNG Bromsgrove woman was left traumatised after she was followed by a pervert who sexually assaulted her....
Jul 11 2006
BIRMINGHAM MP Richard Burden led a rebellion against controversial new Labour Party rules giving the leadership power to suspend rebels....
Jul 11 2006
HEART FM's breakfast DJ Ed James has a new traffic partner in tow - ITV Central's Sarah-Jane Mee....
Jul 11 2006
FIRE crews from three Midland brigades joined forces to tackle a blaze at a scrapyard near an oil depot and people's homes last night....
Jul 11 2006
A MOTHER-of-three today made a desperate plea for help to find the callous killer of her dog shot dead in the back garden of her Birmingham home....
Jul 11 2006
PRIVATE Henry Patrick Jones bravely battled on the Somme and survived to bear his bayonet at the Germans in defence of a small French village....
Jul 11 2006
A TEENAGE girl was left terrified and suffered burns after two thugs used a lighter to ignite deodorant as they sprayed it in her face....
Jul 11 2006
A CITY pub has had its opening hours slashed in a landmark ruling because it is annoying the neighbours....
Jul 11 2006
HOUSE of Commons journalists were today paying tribute to Stanley Sparks, the former political editor of the Birmingham Mail, who has died....
Jul 11 2006
LICHFIELD will become home to the oldest cinema in the world this weekend when a concert graces the stage of its famous cathedral....
Jul 11 2006
HAVING a cold, feeling sick or just too tired - none of these have got the better of super-pupil Cameron Reid who has never had a day off in SEVEN years....
Jul 11 2006
A COCAINE addict who terrified staff when he and two others smashed their way into a small Birmingham supermarket has been jailed for five years and five months....
Jul 11 2006
HUNDREDS of catering workers at Birmingham International Airport have rustled up an inflation-beating pay boost....