Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM train driver suffered sickening injuries when thugs threw bricks through his windscreen. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
WARWICKSHIRE cricket hero Ashley Giles today revealed his wife had pulled through a six hour life-saving brain operation. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
THE machine-gun killers who shot dead a man as he worked out at a gym may have been hitmen from abroad, police revealed. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE were today still trying to identify a man found murdered near a school in Small Heath. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
INTERNATIONAL con artists have been using a charity set up to honour a murdered Midland schoolgirl to scam Americans out of money. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A "GOOD Samaritan" and a boy of 14 - both from Birmingham - were killed in an horrific freak motorway tragedy. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
FLIGHTS were being diverted to Birmingham International Airport today as thick fog across much of the rest of the country plunged the great Christmas getaway into chaos. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A FORMER Midland teacher was facing a lengthy jail sentence today after admitting a series of child sex offences. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
JASPER Carrott led a star-studded line up of celebrity acts in a great night of entertainment at Birmingham's NEC - in an event which did "exactly what it said on the tin". Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
THE number of people being prosecuted for racially or religiously aggravated offences in Worcestershire has risen significantly, a report revealed today. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE investigating the disappearance of two Midland schoolboys were today following up a number of new lines of inquiry following a TV appeal. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
KIND-HEARTED rural folk received special thanks from County Air Ambulance staff after raising more than £6,000 for the life-saving charity. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
ONE of the city centre's oldest pubs faces being stripped of its licence after being caught in an undercover sting operation aimed at under-age drinkers. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A FORMER Birmingham City Council finance manager, jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing more than £1 million of public funds, has been ordered to pay back most of the cash or have his sentence more than doubled. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
THE Archbishop of York turned down an offer to appear on Celebrity Big Brother, his spokesman confirmed today. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
FOUR Birmingham men and a teenager appeared in court charged with offences connected with last year's riots in Lozells. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A FIREFIGHTER was injured in an arson attack on a taxi firm in Small Heath. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM will be ding-a-linging with the sounds of jingle bells this Christmas in a bid to stop muggers preying on shoppers. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM drivers handed over more than £5 million in parking fines in just 12 months, it emerged today. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
DETECTIVE Sharon Goosen is officially a top cop after being named West Midlands police officer of the year. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
POLICE and paramedics today blasted time wasters who risk lives by calling 999 for "ridiculous" reason, including asking for help to free a hedgehog stuck in a Pot Noodle container. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
A DRUGS bust in Redditch in which thousands of pounds of cocaine and heroin and more than £30,000 of fake money was seized, has been praised by the Government. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
ELDERLY victims of crime were given something to smile about after police and youngsters organised a Christmas party for them. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
THE spirit of the Grinch that stole Christmas is alive and well in Sutton Coldfield after a thief stole the lights off the Falcon Lodge Christmas tree. Read
Dec 21 2006 | Top Stories
SECURITY chiefs at Birmingham airport today insisted a repeat of the escape by a suspected police killer could never happen here. Read