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Dec 1 2006
SUPERMODEL Caprice said she felt honoured to be back on Midlands soil for the Clothes Show Live....
Dec 1 2006
HUNDREDS of mourners packed a Black Country church today to pay a tearful farewell to comedian John Plant - half of the Aynuk and Ayli partnership for more than 20 years.o...
Dec 1 2006
EIGHTEEN office workers at a Willenhall steel firm were celebrating today after scooping a £5.2 million half share of the latest Euromillions jackpot....
Dec 1 2006
THE Midlands' biggest beer maker today revealed it is to dump its Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries name and adopt Marston's....
Dec 1 2006
A SHOP-a-smoker hotline will launch next summer when a ban on lighting-up in public is launched....
Dec 1 2006
A DISGRACED Aston Villa player has been sacked after being jailed for four months for stealing £5,000...
Dec 1 2006
WEST Bromwich Albion star Ronnie Wallwork is seriously ill in hospital after being stabbed in a nightclub....
Dec 1 2006
WORCESTER police have arrested a man in connection with the cloning of 70 credit and debit cards used at a city petrol station....
Dec 1 2006
THE new schools shake-up announced by Tony Blair in Birmingham is the final piece of the jigsaw outlined in his "education education education" speech of a decade ago....
Dec 1 2006
MIDLANDS soul diva Beverley Knight is helping to mark World Aids Day by joining forces with her Birmingham cousin to launch an international project to help Aids orphans....
Dec 1 2006
THE Prime Minister has given renewed hope for the transformation of New Street Station in the wake of a campaign involving the Birmingham Mail....
Dec 1 2006
A NURSE whose career ended because she was allergic to latex gloves has won a six figure payout from a Midland hospital....
Dec 1 2006
THE chairman of governors at a city primary school where the head teacher is suspended today appealed for calm over the dispute....
Dec 1 2006
A DRINK-driver today urged motorists: "Don't make the same mistake I did" as he threw his weight behind the police's annual Christmas crackdown....
Dec 1 2006
A CHINESE city at the centre of a major human rights scandal is to be twinned with Birmingham in a major ceremony next week....
Dec 1 2006
DANCEFLOOR diva Lauren Oakley's bid for international glory looks set to be scuppered - because she can't afford to quick step towards her dream....
Dec 1 2006
A 44-YEAR-OLD man was today being questioned over the shooting of a popular Birmingham shopkeeper....
Dec 1 2006
HE'S more used to flying RAF fighter bombers, but pilot Pablo Mason is taking to the skies for a different reason - to overcome Brummies' fears....
Dec 1 2006
BURNING the Union Flag should be made a criminal offence, Midland MPs have demanded....
Dec 1 2006
BUDDING youth and community workers in Birmingham claim their chosen careers are being put at risk because a university is scrapping vital courses....
Dec 1 2006
TALENTED singers from Walsall Choral Society are set to raise the roof at two festive events....
Dec 1 2006
BIRMINGHAM landmark Fort Dunlop will tonight complete a 25-year journey back from the dead - in front of 1,500 onlookers....
Dec 1 2006
TV PRESENTER Des Lynam is the celebrity speaker for one of the Midlands' leading charity lunches....
Dec 1 2006
THE rebirth of Fort Dunlop marks a historic moment for Dennis Dyke, who chalked up 45 years at the world-renowned Birmingham tyre firm....
Dec 1 2006
A FAN who was involved in a raunchy stage routine with Christina Aguilera has made an impassioned plea to Brummies to help him remember the moment....
Dec 1 2006
THE COUNTRY'S biggest kitchen conman, exposed by the Birmingham Mail after ripping off families across the West Midlands, has been arrested....
Dec 1 2006
NEARLY £80,000 raised through the Lord Mayor's appeal has been handed over to four Birmingham charities to help thousands of people....
Dec 1 2006
NEW laws are needed to make forced marriages a criminal offence, according to a Birmingham MP....
Dec 1 2006
A PRISONER at Winson Green told a murder trial jury that a man accused of killing a Dudley pensioner confessed to him....
Dec 1 2006
AN intrepid Midland oarsman's dream of becoming the first person to row around the world is in jeopardy....
Dec 1 2006
A SINGLE mother who was allegedly raped by a Midland police officer after going out on a date with him later told another officer that "something happened" she was not happy with, Birmingham Crown Court heard....
Dec 1 2006
A STUNNING world class gateway into Birmingham was promised as a £600 million revamp of the city's dowdy and unwelcoming New Street Station cleared its first planning hurdle....
Dec 1 2006
A MAN has been arrested over a sickening attack in which a student was savaged by a dog in Birmingham....
Dec 1 2006
A HEROIN addict who carried out a series of sneak-in burglaries at houses in Solihull has been jailed for more than three years under a "three strikes" ruling....
Dec 1 2006
THE site for a planned new state-of-the-art hospital for West Birmingham has been revealed today...
Dec 1 2006
HILDA Pachawo still hopes of one day having a healthy child despite being infected with HIV....
Dec 1 2006
A GRAFFITI "tagger" who caused more than £5,000 damage by vandalising buses and a supermarket has been jailed for four months....
Dec 1 2006
BUMPER crops of mistletoe, holly and out-of-season raspberries are the result of Britain's warmest year, it was revealed today....
Dec 1 2006
A TRIAL mini-tram service in the Black Country has been so successful it may be extended to seven days a week, it has been revealed....
