Articles...
Jan 8 2007
THE ringleader of a Midlands-based gang behind a £54 million VAT fraud has been jailed for 15 years, the longest sentence ever handed down by a British court for this type of crime....
Jan 8 2007
MASKED men armed with sawn-off shotguns and knives terrorised staff and stole the day's bumper takings just hours after Tamworth FC's FA Cup Third Round clash....
Jan 8 2007
A TEENAGE girl was killed and a driver injured when the car they were travelling in veered off the road and crashed into a wall....
Jan 8 2007
NEW Street station will be "overwhelmed" unless a £600 million revamp goes ahead, a top rail industry figure claimed today....
Jan 8 2007
A CONVICTED Birmingham rapist who abused a schoolgirl after being allowed out of prison has been jailed for four years....
Jan 8 2007
A COUPLE had a lucky escape after their sports car stopped just short of a 30ft drop down a Midland hillside....
Jan 8 2007
A MAN has been questioned over allegations of intimidating a witness following an incident in which a suspect package sparked a bomb scare....
Jan 8 2007
HE MAY be 91, but that hasn't stopped comedy legend Sir Norman Wisdom coming out of retirement to star in a film being shot today in the Midlands....
Jan 8 2007
THE New Year has got off to a fantastic start for one man who has been reunited with his beloved dog who vanished four days before Christmas in a car theft incident....
Jan 8 2007
A TEENAGER has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a 16-year-old girl was killed in a Midland car crash....
Jan 8 2007
HUMAN rights laws have zapped plans to use an ultra sonic siren called The Mosquito to drive yobs off the streets of Birmingham....
Jan 8 2007
A CALLOUS hit-and-run driver left a little girl for dead after knocking her over at an accident blackspot....
Jan 8 2007
WHILE transport chief Coun Martin Mullaney criticises people for not using public transport, he chooses to travel on a scooter....
Jan 8 2007
UNION chiefs have attacked plans to scale down City Hospital's A&E, claiming it will cost lives and be the nail in the coffin for the department....
Jan 8 2007
THE trial of a former rail worker accused of vandalising trackside infrastructure was due to begin today....
Jan 8 2007
SEVEN people fled from their homes when an arsonist started a blaze in a neighbouring property....
Jan 8 2007
A MAN who was caught at Birmingham airport with £200,000 worth of cocaine in his case claimed he believed he was carrying business documents and computer software....
Jan 8 2007
A DERELICT former mental hospital building has once again been targeted by arsonists - despite extra security at the site....
Jan 8 2007
A TROUBLED Great Barr school is to be taken over by one of Britain's top head teachers....
