Jan
2007
Articles from 4th Jan 2007
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Security guard attacked with golf club
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A SECURITY guard delivering cash to a Birmingham supermarket was attacked by a thug wielding a golf club. Read
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Deportation row twins freed from detention centre
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
TWINS Karina and Kamila Kaya have been released from a grim detention centre and were due back in Birmingham today pending a final decision on their fate. Read
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Family plea as murder hunt launched
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
THE devastated family of a man who died after giving chase to robbers today made a heartfelt plea for information about his death. Read
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Double fire deaths 'not suspicious'
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
THE death of two elderly people following a fire at a bungalow in Wolverhampton is no longer being treated by police as suspicious. Read
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Stub it out for the new year
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
SMOKERS are being urged to get themselves off the hook this year by kicking their habit. Read
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Short-changed on short measures
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
BOOZERS in Worcestershire are being warned they could be getting short measures when it comes to their favourite tipple in the pub. Read
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Probe into taxi attack
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
POLICE in Redditch are appealing for witnesses after a taxi was damaged in a suspected racially motivated attack. Read
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New chief on the beat
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
BROMSGROVE Police has a new district commander. Read
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letter became labour of love
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
WHEN sailor Ernie Moseley grudgingly put pen to paper in a letter to Maggie Stone from his naval warship he never realised how it would change his life. Read
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Giving schools a real bounce
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
DRIBBLING skills have helped big-hearted pupils at a Smith's Wood college slam dunk their way to clinching a gong. Read
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Twins set free from detention
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
TWINS Karina and Kamila Kaya have been released from a grim detention centre and were due back in Birmingham today, pending a final decision on their fate. Read
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'Snobs' must pay to drive into city
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
HIGH-earners with a snobbish dislike of travelling by bus should have their car journeys into Birmingham made "significantly less attractive" with a London-style congestion charge, a new, controversial study has recommended. Read
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Rail users face more misery
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM'S embattled rail passengers face being hit by more strikes in the coming weeks, unless unions and Central Trains can thrash out a deal. Read
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Probe into bug death
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
AN inquiry is under way at a Birmingham hospital following the death of a woman whose family claim she caught the superbug MRSA following a routine kidney operation. Read
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Join debate about your hospitals
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
THE future of two Midland casualty departments is to be discussed in public at a 'Big Debate' organised by the Birmingham Mail. Bosses at City Hospital, in Winson Green, and Sandwell Hospital, in West Bromwich, are planning dramatic changes in the next 12 months - from scaling down accident and emergency facilities to closing a children's ward. Read
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I'm swapping Brum for Bondi
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
WHEN Birmingham head teacher Steve Poole goes back to school after the Christmas break, he'll have to wear a hat to protect himself from the intense sun. Read
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I just knew she had died...
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND mum today relived the horror of learning her 16-year-old daughter had been killed in a road accident just moments after the youngster had left her at the pub where she worked. Read
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Guide dog savaged in the street
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A VICIOUS attack on a guide dog by another dog left her "pouring with blood", her owner said today. Read
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Firms put on bullying alert
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
MIDLAND employers have been put on New Year alert over workplace bullying following a key House of Lords ruling. Read
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Could 999 staff find YOUR house
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
AMBULANCE chiefs today urged Birmingham families to paint a clear house number on their homes. Read
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Collapse drama over bank bungle
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND decorator collapsed and nearly died when £1,200 was mistakenly taken from his account after he switched banks. Read
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'Birthday' spent in shackles
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
CAMPAIGNERS are to don orange prison suits to deliver a birthday cake to a Birmingham firm which they claim supplies chains and shackles to the notorious Camp X-Ray. Read
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Man is found injured on motorway
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
Man is found injured on motorway Read
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Van crash causes motorway chaos
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
AN overturned van caused traffic chaos this morning on the M5 in the Black Country. Read
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Teenager killed as car leaves road
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A TEENAGER has died and another is in a critical condition after their car came off a busy road and crashed down an embankment near Worcester. Read
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Man killed by train
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
A MAN has been killed after being hit by a train at a Midland station. Read
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Police plea for help to ID second M25 crash victim
Jan 04 2007 | Top Stories
POLICE have appealed for help from the public in identifying the second victim of the M25 coach crash. Read
