Articles...
Oct 26 2006
A ROW over noise between two city neighbours ended with one man being stabbed to death and the other in police custody on suspicion of murder. The man who died had earlier confronted his neighbour at his home in Cotterills Lane, Ward End....
Oct 26 2006
THEY'RE one of Thailand's most controversial exports but one Birmingham restaurant is hoping dancing ladyboys will prove a winner with its diners....
Oct 26 2006
BIRMINGHAM was urged to think again about a directly-elected mayor as plans for far-reaching reforms to local government were published today....
Oct 26 2006
BIRMINGHAM chocolate giant Cadbury today insisted it was biting back after this year's salmonella crisis took a £20 million chunk out of profits....
Oct 26 2006
THE chips could have been down for staff at a Birmingham chippy - after they mistook pop super-stars Westlife for a tribute band....
Oct 26 2006
A COUPLE in Birmingham had a lucky escape when their fridge freezer exploded blowing the door off its hinges....
Oct 26 2006
DRAWINGS showing designs for the redevelopment of New Street Station could be amended to ensure the £500 million scheme has the "wow factor", Network Rail confirmed today....
Oct 26 2006
UP to £10 million granted to the Rover Task Force following the car manufacturer's collapse has been returned to the Treasury....
Oct 26 2006
A COMPANY has been fined £100,000 after a building worker was crushed to death by a 10-tonne machine....
Oct 26 2006
A STAFFORDSHIRE town has become one of the first in the country to benefit from a new scheme to install free cash machines in poor communities....
Oct 26 2006
A WOODWORK teacher at a young offenders' prison has been jailed for six years for trying to smuggle cannabis and ecstasy worth £5,500 to inmates....
Oct 26 2006
RESEARCHERS at Birmingham University have been awarded a £200,000 boost to revolutionise drugs for a dangerous disease sweeping the city....
Oct 26 2006
MID-WORCESTERSHIRE MP Peter Luff has criticised the Government's decision to slash funding to the body which runs Britain's canal network....
Oct 26 2006
POLICE investigating a £2m raid on a Staffordshire bank depot have returned to the scene exactly a week after the robbery....
Oct 26 2006
A BLACK Country cowboy engineer who left a gas fire he serviced in a dangerous state has narrowly escaped going to jail....
Oct 26 2006
A WOMAN prison officer has been found murdered in her home in the Midlands....
Oct 26 2006
STARTLED staff dived for cover after yobs hurled a huge, display-style firework into a newly-decorated Black Country chip shop....
Oct 26 2006
A STAFFORDSHIRE hospice is to lead the way in caring for the terminally ill with a groundbreaking new treatment centre, it has been announced....
Oct 26 2006
AN hourly 'flying bus' service is set to take off between Birmingham and Glasgow....
Oct 26 2006
ARMED police dragged a half-naked man from his Birmingham home and ordered his wife, six children and baby grandchild into a riot van, it was claimed today....
Oct 26 2006
TEENAGE Black Country magician James Milner has plenty of tricks up his sleeve after inheriting his father's dazzling sleight of hand....
Oct 26 2006
A BOY, aged four, who is the youngest person in the UK with a metal rib, is now well enough to go to nursery....
Oct 26 2006
A PIONEERING regional forensic centre which was one of the first in England is due to open at Sandwell General Hospital today as part of a massive £3.1 million mortuary complex development....
Oct 26 2006
THE grieving family of an 18-year-old girl killed by cancer are launching a unique education scheme in her memory in order to help other seriously ill youngsters....
Oct 26 2006
A SEX pest who attacked a Birmingham hospital worker was given a suspended prison sentence....
Oct 26 2006
A SANDWELL head teacher today told of his excitement and nervousness ahead of a ceremony to make him a knight of the realm....
Oct 26 2006
A BROWNHILLS teenager who smashed a 5ft long spirit level on the head of a man fighting his friend has avoided a prison sentence....
Oct 26 2006
A CORONER is to hold an inquest into the deaths of nine Britons, including one from the West Midlands, and one German who were killed in the Bahrain boat tragedy....
Oct 26 2006
THE long-awaited extension to the region's Metro tram system, considered crucial to cutting chronic traffic jams and pollution, has been delayed for at least another two years....
Oct 26 2006
A GRIEVING dad camped out next to his baby son's grave to find the "scum" who stole heart-rending ornaments left in the tot's memory....
Oct 26 2006
BIRMINGHAM pop legends Duran Duran today revealed there has been a split in the band....
Oct 26 2006
IT may have been cold and very wet but when you are a McFly fan and your heroes in town are in town, minor things like the weather simply don't matter....
Oct 26 2006
A DERELICT Midland chapel used as a play den was set on fire in an arson attack....
