Articles...
Oct 19 2006
A LEADING Midland academic today became the latest in a long line of public figures to openly criticise the leadership of Birmingham City Council....
Oct 19 2006
POLICE chiefs in Staffordshire are expecting to be named one of the country's top forces - despite a rise in violent crime....
Oct 19 2006
TWO female bobbies from Birmingham have won a landmark equal pay battle against the police that could affect thousands of women officers across the UK....
Oct 19 2006
FOUR people were taken to hospital after a two-car crash at a busy Birmingham road junction....
Oct 19 2006
A MIDLAND magistrate has resigned after being suspended from his senior postal job in Birmingham following a police investigation into alleged stolen goods....
Oct 19 2006
THE family of murder victim Isaiah Young-Sam will honour his life at a memorial service exactly a year after he was stabbed to death yards from his home as he tried to avoid rioters in Lozells....
Oct 19 2006
A "CLUMSY" attempt by two men to make off with a large haul of copper from an engineering works led to a slow-motion chase as police pursued their overloaded vehicle, Birmingham Crown Court heard....
Oct 19 2006
THE legacy of tragic snooker star Paul Hunter is to live on at a Midland charity which the young sportsman helped set up....
Oct 19 2006
PINT-sized cinema buffs were given the red carpet treatment when their film premiered on the big screen....
Oct 19 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S wholesale markets are on course to move from Digbeth to a site close to the motorway ring - paving the way for a £200 million city centre redevelopment scheme....
Oct 19 2006
A BIRMINGHAM teenager has proved he is head and shoulders above Britain's basketball-playing teenagers by landing a place at a world superstar's sports camp....
Oct 19 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S Selly Oak Hospital was at the centre of a major row in the House of Commons when Tony Blair defended the treatment of injured military personnel....
Oct 19 2006
POLICE have been cleared of any wrongdoing following an inquiry into claims that baton-wielding riot cops assaulted fans when Birmingham's Euro 2004 soccer party exploded in violence....
Oct 19 2006
MARIA Watt's family had just three weeks to get used to the fact she had a life-threatening disease....
Oct 19 2006
SHY great-grandparents Ronald and Irene Jones today admitted that winning a National Lottery fortune had left them totally overwhelmed....
Oct 19 2006
ONE of the city's biggest live music clubs has been ordered to step up security....
Oct 19 2006
A MAN who burst into the home of his estranged wife wearing a balaclava and threatened her with a gun has been jailed for six years....
Oct 19 2006
POLICE swooped on an egg factory and two rural homes in raids in Bromsgrove....
Oct 19 2006
CLAPPED out cars dumped at the side of the road are being targeted in a new move to clean up the streets and slam the brakes on anti-social behaviour....
Oct 19 2006
A MASSIVE £350 million scheme to modernise 40-year-old signals in the West Midlands has been given the green light....
Oct 19 2006
A £25 MILLION scheme for a new ice rink in Birmingham has been frozen out by the council because of smells from Digbeth Market....
Oct 19 2006
WANNABE grease monkeys are besieging college tutors to sign up for motorbike repair courses....
Oct 19 2006
PUPILS and teachers across Birmingham were celebrating today after another improvement in GCSE results....
Oct 19 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S prized Symphony Hall organ celebrates its fifth birthday in an anniversary concert today....
Oct 19 2006
A PICTURE has been released showing the battered and bruised face of a pensioner who was left with a double fracture of the jaw and broken nose after being savagely beaten by a thug....
