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Nov 2 2006
A TEENAGER was jailed for eight years today for the manslaughter of a six-year-old girl in a so-called honour arson attack.
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Nov 2 2006
THE family of a Black Country couple who lost their lives to freak carbon monoxide poisoning may sue over the tragedy, it was revealed today....
Nov 2 2006
Two men have been arrested after a substance believed to be heroin with a street value of £2 million was seized on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border, police said.
Two men have been arrested after a substance believed to be heroin with a street value of £2 million was seized on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border, police said.
Two men have been arrested after a substance believed to be heroin with a street value of £2 million was seized on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border, police said.
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Nov 2 2006
THE ashes of a 92-year-old Worcester woman conceived on board the Titanic have been scattered at sea from a lifeboat.
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Nov 2 2006
POLICE are investigating after a man was found dead in a canal in Wolverhampton....
Nov 2 2006
PASSENGERS using Birmingham International Airport should continue to pack only essentials in their hand luggage despite the ban on carrying liquids on flights being relaxed next week, bosses have said....
Nov 2 2006
BIRMINGHAM'S New Street Station is "no longer fit for purpose" and desperately needs to be rebuilt to better serve the people of the city and the West Midlands, MPs have heard....
Nov 2 2006
GENEROUS staff at a Shirley hotel have clocked up hundreds of pounds for special needs children by pedalling the equivalent distance of England to Germany....
Nov 2 2006
FAMILY and friends of a tragic teenager killed in a car crash have handed over play equipment to a special school after raising more than £6,000 in her memory....
Nov 2 2006
THE tables were turned when Ricky Mandeville threw beer over an innocent group of young Asian men that he and his friends had been shouting drunken abuse at. ...
Nov 2 2006
DUTCH Heinz workers are being brought to the doomed HP Sauce plant to learn the ropes of the jobs they will be taking from Birmingham staff....
Nov 2 2006
A DISTRAUGHT Birmingham animal lover fears a gang of teenagers killed her cat after he was found hanging from a makeshift noose on an iron gate....
Nov 2 2006
BIRMINGHAM has scored a direct hit for jobs with an historic firm which played a crucial part in the wartime Dambusters....
Nov 2 2006
AN "exciting and challenging" playground is the desire for children and staff at William Cowper Primary School, in Newtown, Birmingham....
Nov 2 2006
Shoppers have been busy nominating the traders who go that extra mile when it comes to customer service for the prestigious title of Market Trader of the Year....
Nov 2 2006
THE black market for stolen satnavs has now topped £13 million, according to Autoglass....
Nov 2 2006
WANNABE model Hayley Walton hopes to swap her office computer for the catwalk....
Nov 2 2006
A CAMPAIGN to stub out cigarettes from offices, factories and other workplaces across Birmingham was launched today....
Nov 2 2006
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to improve safety on a busy commuter route which has claimed at least seven lives in the last seven years....
Nov 2 2006
CLASSIC sixties movie The Italian Job came to life when a group of charity workers set off on their own money-gathering mission....
Nov 2 2006
UNSCRUPULOUS traders who sell fireworks to youngsters are being given a real rocket by council officials who are threatening them with big fines or even jail....
Nov 2 2006
A ROYAL visitor came face-to-face with a robot which is revolutionising medical know-how when he visited Worcester to mark the first birthday of the city's university....
Nov 2 2006
PIGEON numbers are being kept under control at Birmingham University thanks to the arrival of a pair of rare feathered pest-control officers - peregrine falcons....
Nov 2 2006
MIDLAND children are being encouraged to put pen to paper for a new fundraising poetry competition in aid of Cancer Research UK....
Nov 2 2006
A "GAGGING" row has erupted in Staffordshire over £50,000 plans to check thousands of homes for potentially lethal asbestos....
Nov 2 2006
OLYMPICS speed skater Laura McCormack aims to clinch a host of medals when she takes part in a prestigious competition in Italy....
Nov 2 2006
POLICE in Worcestershire have hailed the success of a crackdown on lorry crime....
Nov 2 2006
POLICE are hunting a pervert who indecently exposed himself to young girls in two separate incidents on the same day....
Nov 2 2006
TWO budding classical guitarists joined forces to stage a concert in a bid to secure the future of hospice beds for seriously ill youngsters in Worcestershire....
Nov 2 2006
AN ANTI-gun campaigner today welcomed new laws to crack down on the sale of replica guns....
Nov 2 2006
CHILDREN are being urged to be safe and be seen as they make their way to and from schools across Solihull....
Nov 2 2006
TWHILE most ageing Victorian buildings at a Birmingham hospital are being phased out, there is one room that is far from dead and buried. hat's because the mortuary at City Hospital has become the most famous morgue in the UK....
Nov 2 2006
A YOUNG woman was terrified when a man grabbed her around her face as she waited at a bus stop....
Nov 2 2006
A FORMER Rover worker today offered a £10,000 reward to catch a vandal who went on the rampage wrecking 32 motors at his second hand car dealership....
Nov 2 2006
THE beloved mother and inspiration for Blues owners David and Ralph Gold has died at the age of 92....
Nov 2 2006
HISTORY buffs will be able to take a peep behind the scenes at an historic house near Solihull later this month....
Nov 2 2006
THE official Birmingham City Council logo was today stripped from scores of city lorries and vans after workers claimed they were being exposed to public contempt, ridicule and humiliation....
Nov 2 2006
TONY Blair must make good on his promise to rebuild New Street station, an MP has told the Government....
Nov 2 2006
THE wages scandal rocking Birmingham City Council took a new twist as it emerged a second highly-paid worker at the street lighting depot, earning nearly £60,000, is also a union official....
Nov 2 2006
BUSINESS leaders campaigning to raise funds for this year's Royal British Legion poppy appeal have been dealt a blow by one city superstore....
Nov 2 2006
MEMBERS of the Sikh community gathered in Birmingham to remember those killed during the Indian massacres of 1984....
Nov 2 2006
IAN Smith is lying low. The Amicus union official didn't answer the door of his detached four-bedroom home in a Birmingham cul-de-sac when The Mail called....
Nov 2 2006
A MAN who left another needing 22 stitches when he struck him on the head with a broken bottle has been jailed for two years....
