Oct
2006
Articles from 2nd Oct 2006
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Library's £500k facelift is criticised
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
A LANDMARK city library which has just reopened after a £500,000 facelift has been turned into an amusement arcade, claims an angry user. Read
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Work starts on £6m training centre
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
WORK has started on the demolition of a derelict warehouse to make way for a £6 million new centre for job training in Ladywood. Read
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Attacker hits mum with housebrick
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
A YOUNG mum was battered over the head with a housebrick in a chilling attack in front of her two-year-old son. Read
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Police hunt for missing youngsters
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE were today searching for two children who have gone missing in separate circumstances in the Black Country. Read
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Boy killed by hit-and-run driver
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
A BOY of seven has been killed in a hit-and-run accident in the Black Country. Read
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Pope's child sex cover up denied
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM'S top Roman Catholic leader today denied the Pope had tried to hide child sex allegations against the church. Read
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Police appeal to criminals in hunt for fugitive
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
DETECTIVES have made a direct appeal to the criminal fraternity as part of their hunt for a "violent and dangerous" prisoner who was freed from a prison van at gunpoint. Read
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Marchers hit out at 'injustice'
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
DOZENS of protesters took to the streets to retrace the route taken by a driver who dragged a teenager Scott Poll a mile to his death under the wheels of his taxi. Read
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Squaddies at risk on city hospital wards
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
INJURED British soldiers have been "betrayed" by the Government by being placed with civilians on mixed wards in Birmingham hospitals, Conservatives have claimed. Read
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Perfect day for Mail's bride and groom
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
THE sun shone, the bells rang out and as the Birmingham Mail's bride and groom of the year competition winners walked down the aisle together, they looked every bit the perfect couple. Read
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Youth arrested after rooftop drama
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE sealed off part of Solihull town centre in a two-hour stand-off as a teenager threatened to jump from a three-storey building. Read
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Ex-Longbridge workers in Rover return
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
FORMER Rover workers have made a successful return to their former work territory. Read
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Design expert blasts 'dingy' New Street
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
NEW Street Station has been branded "one of the worst buildings in Britain" by TV design expert Kevin McCloud. Read
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Drug dealer jailed over child porn pictures
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
A MAN who downloaded more than two thousand "extremely unpleasant" indecent photographs of children has been jailed for two years. Read
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Drunk teen tried to rob man in the street
Oct 02 2006 | Top Stories
A SOLIHULL teenager who tried to rob a middle aged man he believed had insulted him in the street has escaped being jailed. Read
