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Oct 25 2006
A CHILDREN'S entertainer exposed by the Birmingham Mail after families complained he'd ruined kids' parties has left a trail of other disappointed customers, including a cancer charity....
Oct 25 2006
PASSENGER groups today expressed major concerns that local travellers will have much less say in rail services - because the new West Midlands operator will be based in London....
Oct 25 2006
TWO suspected thieves who were badly burned in a gas blast at an empty house are expected to stay in hospital for weeks, it was revealed today....
Oct 25 2006
THE prison overcrowding crisis should be tackled by sending fewer criminals to jail, according to the West Midlands Chief Constable....
Oct 25 2006
TODAY is your last chance to enter the competition and win £1,000 worth of furniture at IKEA....
Oct 25 2006
RICHARD Hammond today revealed he hopes to be back behind the wheel within weeks - but vowed to steer clear of jet cars....
Oct 25 2006
AN innovative project helping young prisoners stay on the straight and narrow after release has received a funding boost....
Oct 25 2006
POLICE are hunting a man who approached two young girls as they played on a bridge near their home near Cannock....
Oct 25 2006
A DAUGHTER is so distraught over the way yobs have vandalised a city graveyard that she has been given permission to have her father's remains dug up and moved elsewhere....
Oct 25 2006
TV newsreader Joanne Malin has urged Black Country families to join her on an American adventure in aid of a children's charity....
Oct 25 2006
AT an age when most men want to go slower, Worcestershire businessman and racing car enthusiast John Truslove lives for speed....
Oct 25 2006
A BIRMINGHAM social work manager became the second lucky Mail reader to scoop £1,000 to spend at Ikea....
Oct 25 2006
OLDER people in east Birmingham are being encouraged to shape up by taking part in exercise classes - without leaving their chairs....
Oct 25 2006
A MAN who beat his love rival "senseless" in front of his victim's children has avoided a jail term....
Oct 25 2006
A TEAM of young footballers whose pitch and car park was blighted by vandals and flytippers are celebrating after council workers vowed to clean-up the site - thanks to the Birmingham Mail. Desperate Steve Poller was at his wits end after more than a month of being batted from pillar to post by staff at Birmingham City Council in his quest to bring Sheldon Little League Football Club's misery to an end....
Oct 25 2006
MODERN-day tourists are being given the opportunity to experience Lichfield's historic cathedral as medieval pilgrims would have done....
Oct 25 2006
FATHER Christmas has been left without a sleigh after mindless vandals set it ablaze....
Oct 25 2006
TWO former soap stars have joined the line up for a festive Staffordshire pantomime. ...
Oct 25 2006
SOLIHULL MP Lorely Burt is hoping for an Olympian fund-raising effort after meeting legendary oarsman Sir Steve Redgrave....
Oct 25 2006
SMOKERS in east Birmingham who are struggling to stub out the habit are being urged to contact their nearest help group....
Oct 25 2006
A NEW anti-social behaviour citizenship pack has been issued to all Staffordshire high schools....
Oct 25 2006
A KIDDERMINSTER teacher who fantasised about having sex with children, was jailed for two and a half years for grooming what he thought was a 12-year-old virgin over the internet....
Oct 25 2006
A CASH-STRAPPED Worcestershire health authority's decision to cut funding for three chaplaincy posts has come under fire from the area's Anglican bishop....
Oct 25 2006
A TEAM of people with learning disabilities who help to staff a neighbourhood café in Redditch are being rewarded with official catering qualifications....
Oct 25 2006
A LEADING male voice choir from Lichfield's twin-town of Limburg in Germany will give a concert at the city's cathedral later this week....
Oct 25 2006
LOCAL authorities must be freed from excessive Government control and handed new powers to help them make a real difference to the communities they serve, Birmingham City Council's leader has demanded....
Oct 25 2006
CORONATION Street's Sean Tully will be putting in a star performance when he visits Stourbridge College....
Oct 25 2006
STAFFORDSHIRE Ambulance Service's community first responders say they could be forced to watch neighbours die if health chiefs refused to lift a ban on lifesaving drugs....
Oct 25 2006
BIRMINGHAM is really going places with the launch of a new UK-wide board game dedicated to the city....
Oct 25 2006
REDDITCH author Anne Badford has released her latest book, The Haunted Midlands, just in time for Halloween....
Oct 25 2006
STAGE and TV actress Felicity Kendal is coming to Worcestershire to star in a new play before it goes to London's West End....
Oct 25 2006
NEARLY all Solihull children were granted a place in one of the schools of their choice in 2006, according to new research....
Oct 25 2006
A FIVE-year fight by 2,000 Midland workers who saw tens of thousands of pounds wiped from their pensions will come to a head in the High Court next year....
Oct 25 2006
CANCER scientists at Birmingham University have made a breakthrough which could help develop new treatments for patients....
Oct 25 2006
POLICE have warned people not to waste police time or face the costly consequences....
