Articles...
Feb 2 2007
A LORRY driver involved in the crash that closed the Aston Expressway has spoken of his horror at watching the drama unfold in front of his eyes....
Feb 2 2007
A WOMAN fearing she was about to give birth went to a Birmingham maternity ward - only to be told there were no cots for the baby....
Feb 2 2007
PRIME Minister Tony Blair made a whistle-stop trip to the Midlands - but 'snubbed' the Birmingham communities affected by the dramatic police swoop on an alleged terror plot....
Feb 2 2007
BIRMINGHAM gangsters are training killer pit bull terriers to use as weapons, instead of knives and guns, RSPCA officers believe....
Feb 2 2007
A FOOTBALL hooligan who hurled missiles at police in ugly scenes of violence in the Midlands has been barred from attending football matches for six years....
Feb 2 2007
TWO soldiers who could have been the target in the alleged terror kidnap plot were used in an extraordinary sting operation, it emerged today....
Feb 2 2007
TWO teenagers were killed today when their car careered off a Birmingham road and hit a tree....
Feb 2 2007
DEPORTATION row twins Kamila and Karina Kaya have launched a new bid to stay in Birmingham....
Feb 2 2007
LAND Rover workers are having to cross their legs and suffer because absence levels are keeping people waiting for the toilet....
Feb 2 2007
TWO Albanian men living in the UK who trafficked women for prostitution in Birmingham have been jailed and recommended for deportation....
Feb 2 2007
TWO women travelling in a taxi escaped with minor injuries after a fire extinguisher was thrown at the vehicle from a bridge in Birmingham city centre....
Feb 2 2007
DETECTIVES have issued details of two skip lorries stolen by the gang responsible for a raid on a NatWest cash processing centre in Tamworth last week....
Feb 2 2007
DETECTIVES have been given more time to continue questioning nine suspects held in Birmingham over an alleged terror plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier....
Feb 2 2007
THEY have been branded as a "dirty, decrepit disgrace" and transport leaders recently spent £1.3 million on doing them up....
Feb 2 2007
IT'S an often repeated statistic that Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice - now transport leaders want to utilise the extensive network of waterways for moving freight and relieve the strain on the region's creaking roads....
Feb 2 2007
A SERIAL rapist who carried out "reign of terror" against prostitutes in a Birmingham suburb has been jailed for life....
Feb 2 2007
A CYCLE speedway club in danger of folding after break-ins and vandal attacks is riding into a hopeful new era - thanks to the Birmingham Mail....
Feb 2 2007
A HEAVY drinker who knocked out two young men and fractured the jaw of a third has been jailed for 15 months....
Feb 2 2007
AFTER three decades of supplying swing and jazz music the final note is set to sound for a Birmingham city centre record store....
Feb 2 2007
THE former wife of a Frenchman who tried to kill her after stabbing her mother to death in a frenzied attack today revealed her "never-ending nightmare" as he fights to get his murder conviction overturned....
