Dec
2006
Articles from 14th Dec 2006
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Blitz on benefit cheats hailed
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
MORE than 300 benefit cheats who have illegally claimed more than £500,000 this year are being rounded up in record numbers. Read
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Blair quizzed by police over "cash for honours"
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
TONY Blair was questioned by police investigating the "cash for honours" scandal today. Read
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Pedestrians escape as scaffold topples over
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
PASSERS-BY miraculously escaped injury after a large piece of scaffolding fell from a city building. Read
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Police get more time to quiz £2m raid suspects
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
MAGISTRATES have granted extra time for detectives to quiz five men in connection with a near £2 million robbery. Read
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Four men bailed over shooting
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
FOUR of six men arrested in connection with the shooting of a Birmingham man on his birthday have now been released on bail. Read
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Crazy rules that keep street cleaners off the grass
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
'CRAZY' rules are preventing Birmingham's road cleaners from picking litter from grass verges and pavement sweepers from plucking sweet wrappers out of bushes. Read
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Cat gets the New Year's Eve cream
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
BRUMMIE TV presenter Cat Deeley's star is rising in the US where she is set to present Fox TV's New Year's Eve special. Read
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Les goes loco for his train!
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
RADIO presenter Les Ross is living a childhood dream - by buying his own train. Read
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Fears station unable to cope with Virgin expansion
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
A PROPOSED increase in long distance services out of Birmingham's New Street Station will stretch the ailing complex to breaking point, rail campaigners warned today. Read
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Singer Peter goes solo as pregnant Jordan in no-show
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
POP star Peter Andre thrilled shoppers at a book signing - but some were left disappointed because his glamorous wife Jordan couldn't make it. Read
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Fundraisers save hospital chaplains
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
CHARITY workers were today praised after stumping up more than £100,000 to save the jobs of chaplains who provide support to dying patients and the bereaved at three Midland hospitals. Read
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Post & Mail is to be sold off
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
NEWSPAPER publisher Trinity Mirror today announced it was putting the Birmingham Post & Mail up for sale following a four-month review of the entire group. Read
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Missing boy family in birthday vigil
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
THE family of a schoolboy who vanished ten years ago are spending what would have been his 23rd birthday today praying for news. Read
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Union is ready for take-off
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
CABIN crew with Birmingham International Airport's biggest airline snubbed US "union busters" to vote for trade union representation, it was revealed today. Read
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Praise for police after gunman is jailed
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
A JUDGE warned "no mercy" would be shown to people armed with guns as he praised two Midland police officers for their bravery after they disarmed a man with a pistol. Read
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Postman stole after suffering depression
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
A BLACK Country postman who stole hundreds of items of mail before trying to burn the evidence has been further remanded on bail for psychiatric reports. Read
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Pals answer Kyle's Christina picture plea
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
TWO teenagers have come to the rescue of a Christina Aguilera fan after an appeal in the Birmingham Mail. Read
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Pair fined for selling alcohol to youngster
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
THE licensee and barman of a Midland bar have been fined by magistrates after admitting selling alcohol to children. Read
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Nine held after police swoop on pubs
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE made nine drug arrests following a series of weekend raids on pubs in Sutton Coldfield and Kingstanding. Read
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Jeremy backs city's new Jag
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
MOTORING presenter Jeremy Clarkson has helped vote the Birmingham-built Jaguar XK Top Gear magazine's Car of the Year, despite describing the vehicle as "a half-a***d car from a cash strapped company". Read
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Woman quizzed on baby Lilly is bailed
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
A WOMAN arrested in connection with the discovery of a baby's body beside a river has been released on bail, police said today. Read
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Rink plan is frozen out
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
THE £25 million scheme for a new ice rink in Birmingham today looked to be in deep freeze with council planners blocking the project. Read
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Stabbing victim fights for life
Dec 14 2006 | Top Stories
A YOUNG man was today fighting for his life after being repeatedly stabbed in a Birmingham suburb. Read
