Articles...
Aug 3 2006
TEN British men, including some from the West Midlands, have been found guilty of disturbing the peace and sentenced to 10 months by a court in Crete following a fight last month, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said....
Aug 3 2006
A CITY suburb came to a halt today as hundreds of friends and family made an emotional farewell to tragic hit-and-run victim Justin Murphy....
Aug 3 2006
WORRIED parents were calling on 10 Downing Street today to demand the return of TB jabs in Birmingham schools....
Aug 3 2006
MORE than 5,000 people are expected to join in the fun at the city's brightest community event on Sunday....
Aug 3 2006
COUNCIL officials are calling on the public to be extra vigilant after a spate of serious fires on a nature reserve....
Aug 3 2006
AMBITIOUS students looking to boost their education prospects with an injection of cash were have again been encouraged to apply for awards in memory to tragic Birmingham teenagers Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis....
Aug 3 2006
MANY reported thefts in city centre bars are actually down to "stolen" belongings being left behind by their drunken owners, police have revealed....
Aug 3 2006
PERSISTENT council tax dodgers were warned today that their next home will be a prison cell....
Aug 3 2006
A TOP Birmingham anaesthetist suspended for allegedly falling asleep during an operation has been allowed to return to theatre, it has emerged....
Aug 3 2006
HUNDREDS of families were toasting victory today in a battle to prevent a convenience store selling round-the-clock booze....
Aug 3 2006
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save an historic pub threw a party after councillors unanimously rejected proposals which would have seen it bulldozed....
Aug 3 2006
VETERAN yachtsman Tony Bullimore announced today he would try to beat the world record for sailing non-stop and single-handed around the world....
Aug 3 2006
CHOCOLATE giant Cadbury is to start sponsoring Coro-nation Street again in a £5 million bid to woo back consumers in the wake of the salmonella scandal....
Aug 3 2006
SERIAL sex beast Duncan Turner was back behind bars today after he was nailed by the sort of DNA techniques seen on the hit TV show CSI....
Aug 3 2006
SCHOOL friends of three Birmingham sisters fighting deportation to Pakistan have made a heartfelt plea to the Home Secretary to let them stay in Britain....
Aug 3 2006
TWO Birmingham hospitals were today criticised for sending confidential patient notes thousands of miles across the world to be typed up....
Aug 3 2006
A MAN who robbed a prostitute of her phone and money has been jailed for four years and recommended for deportation back to his home country of Lithuania....
Aug 3 2006
A BIRMINGHAM man died in an horrific crash which has left another man, from Walsall, fighting for his life....
Aug 3 2006
MOTORISTS parking illegally in Birmingham could soon be hit by even bigger fines of around £120....
Aug 3 2006
TENANTS of a nine storey block of flats have secured a windfall of thousands of pounds - but at a price....
Aug 3 2006
DETECTIVES have launched a murder inquiry after a woman was found with stab wounds in a Midland house....
Aug 3 2006
A FASCINATING study of the landscape of the West Midlands and beyond has been completed by a Birmingham academic....
Aug 3 2006
LAUREL and Hardy were famous for the line "here's another nice mess" - but, when 15-year-old Midland schoolboy Vincent Byrne plays his own score to accompany one of their silent films, he'll be hoping it'll be alright on the night....
Aug 3 2006
THE decision to spend £7 million of taxpayers money prosecuting ten policemen over the death-in-custody of Michael Powell was today slammed by rank and file officers....
