Articles...
Nov 9 2006
FOUR people have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a motorist in Worcester....
Nov 9 2006
THOUSANDS of school-age crooks are escaping with a slap on the wrist for crimes including rape and conspiracy to murder....
Nov 9 2006
A JEWELLER was left fighting for his life after being stabbed as he tried to stop masked knifemen ransacking his shop....
Nov 9 2006
A BID to open Birmingham's first gay and lesbian sex shop catering for fetish and bondage gear was today at the centre of a sleaze row....
Nov 9 2006
A CITY council lighting engineer who caused a national outcry by earning £91,000 a year when off sick has been told he can carry on earning by a tribunal....
Nov 9 2006
DELIGHTED market bosses in a Midland town are celebrating the launch of a farmers' market which has seen trade more than double....
Nov 9 2006
FORMER model Neely Reyes is exporting the glamorous best of Birmingham and the Black Country to the world....
Nov 9 2006
THE man accused of killing his teacher wife and their baby daughter has lost two legal challenges in the run up to his trial....
Nov 9 2006
ONE of Birmingham's bravest First World War heroes is to be remembered forever when his name paves the way for a new city housing development....
Nov 9 2006
A FORMER Birmingham doctor who allegedly told her patient she was being tormented by "black magic" failed to turn up to a disciplinary hearing....
Nov 9 2006
A NEW Destination NEC Masterplan to help drive the massive Midland complex back into the black is to be "market tested" following nine months of work....
Nov 9 2006
THE case of a newspaper columnist accused of wasting police time has been further adjourned by Birmingham magistrates....
Nov 9 2006
TWO of the "Tipton Taliban" were detained at Birmingham International Airport this week, it emerged today....
Nov 9 2006
SOCIAL services bosses are urging older residents to be on their guard against callers claiming to be care workers....
Nov 9 2006
A BIRMINGHAM soldier has failed in his bid to overturn a seven-year jail sentence for handling a stolen rifle....
Nov 9 2006
PILLOW the cat is all of a flutter after her feathered friend Mindy the parrot flew the nest....
Nov 9 2006
COUNCIL chiefs are considering demolishing blocks of flats in Shard End, it has been revealed....
Nov 9 2006
PATIENTS and newborn babies are to be tagged with ID bands in a bid to step up safety at a Birmingham hospital....
Nov 9 2006
A TRAINEE legal executive who caused the death of a retired head teacher when she crashed into the back of her car on a motor-way in Birmingham was today starting a three year jail sentence....
Nov 9 2006
PLATFORMS at New Street Station have been shut down 15 times in the last year because of dangerous overcrowding, it emerged today....
Nov 9 2006
THE future of New Street will be decided in an announcement next summer, the Government has revealed....
Nov 9 2006
THE parents of a baby boy who had paint thrown over him by vandals today offered a "substantial reward" to catch them....
Nov 9 2006
A MAN was sentenced to 180 hours' community service and banned from owning pets for five years after his dog died through neglect....
Nov 9 2006
A MAN choked by poison fumes from industrial pest control chemicals at a Birmingham factory has won a £1,200 payout....
Nov 9 2006
WORK on the next biggest attraction at the Black Country Living Museum is under way - where builders are using child's play to recreate the past....
Nov 9 2006
POLICE are on a quest to find the owner of a quantity of Lord of the Rings books and an audio speaker....
Nov 9 2006
A CORONER has recorded open verdicts on two drug addicts who died within a week of each other after taking heroin at a "drugs den" house in the Black Country....
Nov 9 2006
Freed sex killer wanted by police...
Nov 9 2006
THE taxman is making 4,300 nuisance telephone calls a week, according to a Birmingham MP....
Nov 9 2006
NO Ordinary Education is the byword for a Midland school which has a proud history stretching back 340 years....
Nov 9 2006
POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 27-year-old man who has been missing from home for a fortnight....
Nov 9 2006
A TEACHER wept in the dock as a jury was shown footage of her performing a sex act on a schoolboy....
Nov 9 2006
YOBS who ran a circus out of town have brought heartbreak to dozens of deprived young children hoping to enjoy the big top experience for the first time....
