Articles...
Sep 4 2006
A GRAN was left with a broken nose, a split lip and a broken arm after a violent confrontation outside a pub in the Black Country....
Sep 4 2006
STEVE Irwin, the Australian TV personality known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed today by a stingray barb through the heart on a diving expedition....
Sep 4 2006
THOUSANDS of keen gardeners received a good watering themselves during a weekend of green-fingered fun....
Sep 4 2006
BUDDING Steven Spielbergs had a chance to become filmmakers for the week when they took part in a special activities week at the University of Worcester....
Sep 4 2006
A NEW school dinner menu will be introduced into all Walsall schools from this month following new Government legislation....
Sep 4 2006
A CITY suburb was touched by carnival fever for the first time in a decade as families took to the streets and partied....
Sep 4 2006
A PLAN for photographs of candidates to appear on election ballot papers have been dismissed as a gimmick by one of Birmingham's parliamentary candidates....
Sep 4 2006
ALMOST 100 firefighters battled a huge blaze which gutted an historic factory in Birmingham....
Sep 4 2006
TAMWORTH is bidding for a slice of £5 million in Government funding to tackle the growing menace of mini-motorbikes which is plaguing the town....
Sep 4 2006
A KNOWLE security firm administrator who told police his car had been stolen after drinking five pints of lager, eventually remembered where he had parked it and was charged with a drink drive offence....
Sep 4 2006
A GUN was fired, shattering a window in Tividale....
Sep 4 2006
UNION officials are hoping to strike a deal to soften the blow for Worcestershire farmers whose livelihoods will be devastated by the closure of a Midland sugar factory....
Sep 4 2006
A POLITICAL storm is throwing black clouds over Shard End's Labour Party branch committee after its long standing chairman and vice chairman were unceremoniously ousted....
Sep 4 2006
BIRMINGHAM Town Hall is to re-open next year with a spectacular 11-day festival following its £35 million, two-year renovation....
Sep 4 2006
A SHOWCASE multi-million pound bus Red Route between Birmingham and Walsall has been branded "an absolute shambles" by Khalid Mahmood MP....
Sep 4 2006
A parcels courier stripped naked after assaulting a street cleaner he suspected of being an undercover policeman, climbed onto a roof in Stirchley and prepared to jump after claiming he had been threatened with his life at a mystery meeting....
Sep 4 2006
DRUNKS and drug addicts are intimidating shoppers and putting people off going into Redditch, worried traders have warned....
Sep 4 2006
A PSYCHIATRIST will be the special guest when a support group meets in Worcester next week....
Sep 4 2006
A TEENAGE West Bromwich girl was today in intensive care in hospital after she was hit by a bus....
Sep 4 2006
DESCENDANTS of Birmingham's famous pen-making son have made a pilgrimage thousands of miles to the city on the ancestry trail....
Sep 4 2006
MY hatred for reality television singing competitions is legendary....
Sep 4 2006
FOOTBALL hooligan dolls wearing the claret and blue of Aston Villa have outraged club bosses and the Premier League, which is threatening legal action....
Sep 4 2006
POLICE today declared "psychological war" on car-jackers who break into Midland homes and terrorise occupants before stealing their vehicles....
Sep 4 2006
A DEVASTATING report which handed the lowest possible grade to a Staffordshire hospital trust's children's services was the result of an administrative mixup, it was claimed today....
