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Oct 20 2006
REBEL MP Clare Short has sensationally quit the Labour Party, it was reported today....
Oct 20 2006
A WAR of words between the deputy leader of the council and one of the Midlands' leading academics erupted today over plans for the future of the city....
Oct 20 2006
A BIRMINGHAM British Legion branch celebrates its 60th anniversary with a weekend of special activities including a church service and musical concert....
Oct 20 2006
UNSCRUPULOUS car clampers in Birmingham are laughing at the law by ignoring court orders and breaking promises to pay back their helpless victims....
Oct 20 2006
FORMER Birmingham MP Estelle Morris today hit back at claims from a former Cabinet colleague that she had set back the cause of women in politics....
Oct 20 2006
VILLA legend Paul McGrath has declared victory in his fight against alcoholism....
Oct 20 2006
FORMER mining communities in south Wales are remembering the coal tip disaster that took the lives of 116 children at Aberfan 40 years ago....
Oct 20 2006
IT WAS crooner Frank Sinatra who first sang "regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention" in the classic My Way....
Oct 20 2006
MIDLAND mum-of-two Angie Osborn appreciates every second that she can breathe, smile and kiss her young children....
Oct 20 2006
ALMOST £2million in cash has been stolen in a robbery at a NatWest bank processing centre in the Midlands....
Oct 20 2006
A TEENAGER has been charged in connection with an axe attack that brought terror to a fast-food restaurant....
Oct 20 2006
MIDLAND music fans looking for tickets for sell-out shows were today given an urgent warning over counterfeits after a box office theft....
Oct 20 2006
THE grandmother of two Birmingham boys convicted of "one of the worst cases" of anti-social behaviour in the city insisted today: "They're not that bad."...
Oct 20 2006
A PREMATURE Birmingham baby who was born in a Blackpool B&B was home with his parents today....
Oct 20 2006
A KINGSWINFORD woman has become the second Black Country great-grandmother in a matter of days to win a Lottery fortune - after it was predicted in the stars....
Oct 20 2006
TWO masked men who kidnapped a delivery driver before threatening to burn him to death on a 70-mile terror drive have each been jailed for six years....
Oct 20 2006
A MUSICIAN whose conviction for murdering teacher Jane Longhurst was ruled unsafe by the Law Lords in July must face a retrial, the Court of Appeal decided....
Oct 20 2006
LAND ROVER worker Peter Michael received his very own kick-start when his life was saved by his colleagues after suffering a heart attack....
Oct 20 2006
THE TUG of war over the future of Karren Brady is set to drag on into next week - amid the growing on-field crisis at Blues....
Oct 20 2006
ANYONE wishing to enter this year's pantomime horse race in Birmingham will need to gee-up their Dobbins as the closing date for entries is today....