Articles...
Jul 18 2006
NANJING'S plans to create just 200 jobs with the long awaited rebirth of Long-bridge were today attacked as a "disappointment" by unions and bosses....
Jul 18 2006
A PET owner separated two squabbling cats by putting one of the animals in his freezer, a court heard....
Jul 18 2006
A BOY of ten has been knifed in an attack branded as "pure evil" by police....
Jul 18 2006
A CANNABIS factory was uncovered in the Black Country today following a police raid....
Jul 18 2006
ADOPTED as a youngster, Ashanti Webb had a troubled upbringing....
Jul 18 2006
A FORMER Birmingham postman who claimed a cat's head was delivered to his home during a campaign of harassment has reached a cash settlement with the Royal Mail....
Jul 18 2006
A PUB worker from Redditch has been spared a prison sentence after she conned the council out of thousands of pounds in benefits....
Jul 18 2006
A MAN caught with thousands of pirate DVDs and CDs at a car boot sale has avoided jail....
Jul 18 2006
ROMANIAN gangsters who looted the bank accounts of cashpoint users across Birmingham have been jailed....
Jul 18 2006
AN elderly couple cheated death by inches when a huge tree toppled on to their car in a freak accident....
Jul 18 2006
THIS overturned lorry led to early morning traffic chaos in Birmingham today....
Jul 18 2006
MORE than 250 athletes aimed to reach their best at this year's Birmingham Special Olympics....
Jul 18 2006
RESIDENTS' associations fighting plans by Tesco to build a superstore on Birmingham playing fields have published their own alternative green scheme, which would see the land retained for sports and community uses....
Jul 18 2006
MIDLAND water users were today warned to conserve precious supplies and told "every drop is precious" as the region continued to bake in the sweltering heatwave....
Jul 18 2006
ADVENTUROUS plans to transform healthcare across west Birmingham are being drastically scaled down due to mounting debts....
Jul 18 2006
A MAN who used a knife in a savage attack on a woman who was involved in a skirmish with his mother has been jailed for 18 months....
Jul 18 2006
A MAN caught in possession of nearly 2,000 indecent photographs of children has avoided prison....
Jul 18 2006
THE senseless loss of life through gun and gang violence on the city's streets is to be remembered during a Birmingham memorial service....
Jul 18 2006
A MIDLAND MP has told the Commons how she witnessed attacks on ambulance staff as they tried to help the victim of an assault....
Jul 18 2006
INVESTIGATORS were today rummaging through the remains of a blaze at a farm in the Midlands....
Jul 18 2006
A VIOLENT hoodie robbed a pensioner, breaking both her wrists and shattering her lifelong ambition....
Jul 18 2006
NINETY patients were evacuated from Birmingham's City Hospital after a fridge freezer caught fire....
Jul 18 2006
A TRAGIC West Midlands detective who died in a car crash in South Africa was honoured by colleagues at a poignant ceremony....
Jul 18 2006
SCORES of firefighters from across the Midlands were today still tackling a blaze at a major sewage works SEVEN days after it first broke out....
Jul 18 2006
SPLICE the mainbrace and ahoy there! City student Abi Lalani swapped the land locked confines of her academic halls at Birmingham University to embark on the voyage of a lifetime....
Jul 18 2006
A PAIR of tearaways have been handed anti-social behaviour orders, sparking delight from police...
Jul 18 2006
PHEW - what a scorcher! With temperatures soaring and pavements hot enough to fry an egg, the Beach Hutters' Appreciation Society brought their shack to the city to provide some welcome shade....
