Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
SUPERMODEL Caprice said she felt honoured to be back on Midlands soil for the Clothes Show Live. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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 Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
EIGHTEEN office workers at a Willenhall steel firm were celebrating today after scooping a £5.2 million half share of the latest Euromillions jackpot. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
THE Midlands' biggest beer maker today revealed it is to dump its Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries name and adopt Marston's. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A SHOP-a-smoker hotline will launch next summer when a ban on lighting-up in public is launched. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A DISGRACED Aston Villa player has been sacked after being jailed for four months for stealing £5,000 Read
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A 44-YEAR-OLD man was today being questioned over the shooting of a popular Birmingham shopkeeper. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A CHINESE city at the centre of a major human rights scandal is to be twinned with Birmingham in a major ceremony next week. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
THE chairman of governors at a city primary school where the head teacher is suspended today appealed for calm over the dispute. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A NURSE whose career ended because she was allergic to latex gloves has won a six figure payout from a Midland hospital. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
WEST Bromwich Albion star Ronnie Wallwork is seriously ill in hospital after being stabbed in a nightclub. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
THE Prime Minister has given renewed hope for the transformation of New Street Station in the wake of a campaign involving the Birmingham Mail. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A MAN has been arrested over a sickening attack in which a student was savaged by a dog in Birmingham. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
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THE site for a planned new state-of-the-art hospital for West Birmingham has been revealed today Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
HILDA Pachawo still hopes of one day having a healthy child despite being infected with HIV. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A GRAFFITI "tagger" who caused more than £5,000 damage by vandalising buses and a supermarket has been jailed for four months. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
BUMPER crops of mistletoe, holly and out-of-season raspberries are the result of Britain's warmest year, it was revealed today. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
AN intrepid Midland oarsman's dream of becoming the first person to row around the world is in jeopardy. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
A PRISONER at Winson Green told a murder trial jury that a man accused of killing a Dudley pensioner confessed to him. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
NEW laws are needed to make forced marriages a criminal offence, according to a Birmingham MP. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
NEARLY £80,000 raised through the Lord Mayor's appeal has been handed over to four Birmingham charities to help thousands of people. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
THE COUNTRY'S biggest kitchen conman, exposed by the Birmingham Mail after ripping off families across the West Midlands, has been arrested. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
THE rebirth of Fort Dunlop marks a historic moment for Dennis Dyke, who chalked up 45 years at the world-renowned Birmingham tyre firm. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
TV PRESENTER Des Lynam is the celebrity speaker for one of the Midlands' leading charity lunches. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM landmark Fort Dunlop will tonight complete a 25-year journey back from the dead - in front of 1,500 onlookers. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
TALENTED singers from Walsall Choral Society are set to raise the roof at two festive events. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
BUDDING youth and community workers in Birmingham claim their chosen careers are being put at risk because a university is scrapping vital courses. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
BURNING the Union Flag should be made a criminal offence, Midland MPs have demanded. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
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. Read
Dec 01 2006 | Top Stories
WORCESTER police have arrested a man in connection with the cloning of 70 credit and debit cards used at a city petrol station. Read