Articles...
Jul 12 2006
PLANS to merge police forces in the West Midlands into a single "superforce" have been scrapped by the Government....
Jul 12 2006
THE Bishop of Wolverhampton the Rt Revd Michael Bourke has announced his retirement after holding the post for 13 years....
Jul 12 2006
A 51-YEAR-OLD woman has died in hospital after falling from a motorway bridge in the West Midlands, police have said....
Jul 12 2006
NANJING today confirmed plans to build the MG in the US - at a new assembly plant in Oklahoma....
Jul 12 2006
ANXIOUS Birmingham families will tonight hold silent vigils for the hundreds of dead and wounded in the Mumbai bombings....
Jul 12 2006
A 22-YEAR-OLD has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an attempted suicide after a man was found hanging from a tree, police said today....
Jul 12 2006
THE death toll from the Indian commuter train blasts has reached 190, police in Mumbai said today....
Jul 12 2006
A SKULL found in a skip in Birmingham could be many years old and is not thought to belong to a current missing person, it emerged today....
Jul 12 2006
A STAFFORDHIRE pensioner was reduced to tears by a scam letter telling her she was the target of an evil spell....
Jul 12 2006
THERE may still be 2,000 days to go - but youngsters at a Birmingham school are already counting down to the biggest sporting event ever to be staged in Britain....
Jul 12 2006
WEST Midlands Police are deliberately painting an over-optimistic picture on crime by failing to tell people that serious offences are rising, a councillor claimed....
Jul 12 2006
A CLOUD of smelly fog engulfed city homes today following a blaze at a major sewerage treatment works....
Jul 12 2006
THIEVES have stolen a giant banner advertising a Midland hospital's biggest fundraising event of the year....
Jul 12 2006
KEEN footballers have scored £200,000 worth of improvements for pitches....
Jul 12 2006
THE club already boasts the future King of England among its fans and now Aston Villa can bank on the support of another influential fan - Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King....
Jul 12 2006
THE city is going all out to recover more than £1 million stolen by an illegal immigrant it hired for a top finance post....
Jul 12 2006
KAYLEIGH Lavill's 18th birthday party will be the most bittersweet of occasions for her loving family - because the guest of honour will not be there....
Jul 12 2006
THE decline in popularity of the British Motor Show in the past 10 years was partly due to it being held in Birmingham....
Jul 12 2006
THE battle to save HP Sauce production in Birmingham was being taken to the continent today....
Jul 12 2006
THEY were the darlings of holiday camps across the country - and now they are bringing some Hi-de-hi! spirit to hundreds of patients at a Birmingham hospital....
Jul 12 2006
THE mother of a baby girl killed in a horrifying roof collapse tragedy almost three years ago is still battling for compensation....
