Oct
2006
Articles from 19th Oct 2006
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Top of the league - as crime goes up
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE chiefs in Staffordshire are expecting to be named one of the country's top forces - despite a rise in violent crime. Read
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Party as city pulls out all the stops
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM'S prized Symphony Hall organ celebrates its fifth birthday in an anniversary concert today. Read
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Exam pass joy for city
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
PUPILS and teachers across Birmingham were celebrating today after another improvement in GCSE results. Read
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Demand for repair courses
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
WANNABE grease monkeys are besieging college tutors to sign up for motorbike repair courses. Read
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Wholesale change for city markets
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Pupils get the star treatment
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
PINT-sized cinema buffs were given the red carpet treatment when their film premiered on the big screen. Read
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Poignant legacy of tragic snooker star
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
THE legacy of tragic snooker star Paul Hunter is to live on at a Midland charity which the young sportsman helped set up. Read
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Pair fined over 'pathetic' theft attempt
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Memorial remembers riots victim
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Magistrate quits after theft inquiry
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND magistrate has resigned after being suspended from his senior postal job in Birmingham following a police investigation into alleged stolen goods. Read
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Four hurt after cars collide
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
FOUR people were taken to hospital after a two-car crash at a busy Birmingham road junction. Read
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Female bobbies win wage battle
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Appeal after vicious thug beats OAP
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Academic hits out at council leadership
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
A LEADING Midland academic today became the latest in a long line of public figures to openly criticise the leadership of Birmingham City Council. Read
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Smells put ice rink scheme in doubt
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
A £25 MILLION scheme for a new ice rink in Birmingham has been frozen out by the council because of smells from Digbeth Market. Read
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Rail signals to receive £350m upgrade
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
A MASSIVE £350 million scheme to modernise 40-year-old signals in the West Midlands has been given the green light. Read
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Police crackdown on abandoned cars
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Police crack eggs fraud
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE swooped on an egg factory and two rural homes in raids in Bromsgrove. Read
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Man jailed for gun threat to wife
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Live music venue on crime blacklist
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
ONE of the city's biggest live music clubs has been ordered to step up security. Read
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Gran overwhelmed by Lotto jackpot
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
SHY great-grandparents Ronald and Irene Jones today admitted that winning a National Lottery fortune had left them totally overwhelmed. Read
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Forum tribute to tragic teen
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
MARIA Watt's family had just three weeks to get used to the fact she had a life-threatening disease. Read
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Cops cleared of beating up football fans
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Blair defends policy of soldiers on NHS wards
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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Basketball star's hitting the heights
Oct 19 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
