Articles...
Aug 18 2006
A TODDLER from Birmingham has drowned after falling into a swimming pool in Spain....
Aug 18 2006
A BIRMINGHAM taxi driver was today beginning a six year jail sentence for the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl passenger....
Aug 18 2006
A HUGE bird of prey is bringing terror to terrified joggers....
Aug 18 2006
A DANCING group is tripping the light fantastic after clinching a £3,000 grant....
Aug 18 2006
TRIPLETS Nikini, Madura and Wikum Jayatunga made history by picking up four A grades each in their A-levels....
Aug 18 2006
A "FAMILY man" caught with obscene images of children on his computer has been sentenced to a three-year community rehabilitation order....
Aug 18 2006
FASHION will take a step back in time when clothes from the last eight centuries grace a Staffordshire catwalk....
Aug 18 2006
TWO Birmingham housing department officials have been suspended amid claims they hired contractors without authorisation....
Aug 18 2006
TWO Birmingham housing department officials have been suspended amid claims they hired contractors without authorisation....
Aug 18 2006
A BLACK Country hospital is to be re-developed after a £140 million scheme was given the government go-ahead....
Aug 18 2006
A MIDLAND hospital is to be re-developed after a £140 million scheme was given the Government go-ahead....
Aug 18 2006
THE devastated husband of a leading Worcestershire horticulturist who died in a car crash has paid tribute to his "modest and generous" wife....
Aug 18 2006
CLAIMS that Staffordshire Ambulance Service massaged its 999 response time figures have proved false....
Aug 18 2006
FAMILIES are celebrating victory over a mobile phone giant after plans for a mast near homes and a primary school were thrown out....
Aug 18 2006
A "SENSITIVE and proud" sports student killed himself after his desperate pleas for his girlfriend not to end their relationship went unanswered....
Aug 18 2006
THE education map of Birmingham has today under-gone a major change with the £43 million merger of two colleges in the city....
Aug 18 2006
A LONG established Black Country metal basher is helping transform the global fight against diabetes by making key components for a new "breakthrough" drug device....
Aug 18 2006
A BIRMINGHAM Labour MP today fired a broadside at the Government over its failure to rein in the energy companies....
Aug 18 2006
REDDITCH mums have joined forces to launch a survival guide aimed at helping new parents to raise their children in the town....
Aug 18 2006
WITH an indoor smoking ban coming in next summer, Broad Street clubs and bars have launched a pre-emptive bid to keep the street clean with outdoor ashtrays....
Aug 18 2006
FAMILIES in a quiet Birmingham street whose calm was shattered by blaring music can breathe a sigh of relief after a neighbour from hell was evicted....
Aug 18 2006
STAFFORD has a new feather in its cap after impressing the Government with its efforts to combat crime....
Aug 18 2006
ELDERLY residents of a sheltered housing block have successfully held-up plans to open a pub next to their homes....
Aug 18 2006
GOLF-crazy Simon O'Dell may still be a teenager but he already has a national golf championship under his belt after beating thousands of young players for a British title....
Aug 18 2006
HANG on to those brollies - we haven't seen the end of the torrential rain just yet....
Aug 18 2006
A CAMBODIAN teenager has been jailed for 20 years for murdering a bar owner from the Midlands in a botched burglary attempt....
Aug 18 2006
A FLOCK of Canada geese terrorising a city suburb is to be killed off with contraceptive pills....
Aug 18 2006
APPLICANTS for a finance job with Birmingham City Council were invited to apply to an ex-council official currently in jail awaiting sentence for a £1 million fraud....
Aug 18 2006
TOLLY the kestrel is flying high after returning to the wild, much to the delight of motorists....
Aug 18 2006
MORE pupils than ever at Park Hall School, in Castle Bromwich, managed to get into the university of their choice. ...
Aug 18 2006
PUPILS have been burying a piece of the past while looking to the future ahead of the opening of their new state-of-the-art school....
Aug 18 2006
A FUN-filled day encouraged more people to take up recycling....
Aug 18 2006
WHEN Birmingham's popular Irish bar The Dubliner was burned to the ground last month the effects were devastating, not only for the regulars but for disabled adults too....