Articles...
Mar 1 2007
A FAULTY power cable brought traffic chaos to Birmingham city centre today....
Mar 1 2007
TWO teenage gangsters who went on a three-hour gun orgy of robbery and violence around Birmingham were jailed for nine years today....
Mar 1 2007
FOUR prison guards "could and should" have prevented a Birmingham prisoner on suicide watch from hanging himself, a court was told....
Mar 1 2007
A BLOWN power cable brought traffic chaos to Birmingham city centre today....
Mar 1 2007
MAIL editor Steve Dyson talks to BRMB's Tom Ross about what's in today's paper....
Mar 1 2007
AN investigation has been launched by Trading Standards officers after thousands of motorists claimed they had been sold contaminated fuel....
Mar 1 2007
THE king of Birmingham's nightclub scene Eddie Fewtrell is about to become the subject of a new book about his life....
Mar 1 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S embattled Tory leader Mike Whitby was under fire today amid accusations he poked fun at mentally ill people....
Mar 1 2007
FIREFIGHTERS averted a possible explosion from gas cylinders as they tackled a blaze which destroyed a portable building used as an office at a scrapyard....
Mar 1 2007
A MUM who was diagnosed with cancer on Valentine's Day three years ago lost her brave battle for life - on February 14....
Mar 1 2007
ORGANISERS of Birmingham's Bangla Mela today vowed that the show will go on after resolving a venue row which threw this year's event into doubt....
Mar 1 2007
PARENTS have been hit in the pocket after being caught not ensuring children were wearing seatbelts in their cars....
Mar 1 2007
AN UNKNOWN Jamaican man approached the unlocked home where a baby boy lay sleeping just hours before he disappeared from his cot, a court heard....
Mar 1 2007
HUNDREDS of thousands of cable television customers woke up to blank screens on some of their favourite channels today after the deadline passed in a row between Sky and Virgin Media....
Mar 1 2007
THE brother of a Birmingham teenager gunned down in a gangland shooting has been banned from parts of Birmingham....
Mar 1 2007
A BUS driver banned from the road after a depot accident which killed a woman today told her family "I'm so sorry"....
Mar 1 2007
THE clock today started ticking for council leader Mike Whitby to tell the people of Birmingham if he will allow them to decide how the city is run....
Mar 1 2007
REFUGEE row twins Karina and Kamila Kaya are still languish-ing in a detention centre while they await their fate....
Mar 1 2007
CITY education chiefs today rejected Government proposals to use a lottery system to allocate places at popular schools....
Mar 1 2007
DIE-hard Take That fans have been camping out at the NEC Arena three days before tickets for the re-formed boyband go on sale....
Mar 1 2007
NICOTINE addicts will be left standing by the roadside if they want a cigarette as Birmingham taxi drivers today banned smoking....
Mar 1 2007
FIRE crews cut a woman free from the mangled wreckage of a car after a two vehicle smash in the Midlands....
Mar 1 2007
A WOMAN was flattened as heavy hoarding surrounding a city centre development collapsed on top of her in the wind....
Mar 1 2007
PROTESTERS in Birmingham today accused council chiefs of underhand tactics which favoured store giant Tesco....
Mar 1 2007
TWO teenage gangsters who led a three-hour gun orgy of robbery and violence through Birmingham were today starting nine nine-year jail sentences....
Mar 1 2007
A FREE advice centre which has served Birmingham's Irish community for 50 years is under threat after its £60,000 council grant was axed....
Mar 1 2007
A GIANT Lord of the Rings tribute statue has been given the go-ahead despite angry scenes at the Council House....
Mar 1 2007
ROZ the guide dog wags her tail as she steers a path for Gary Wickett - after making an incredible recovery from an attack that left her with 17 wounds....
Mar 1 2007
BEAMING mum Sarah Aldis has nothing but high praise for paramedics who raced to a sixth-floor flat to deliver her infant son....
Mar 1 2007
A SOLIHULL man who told staff at a Birmingham airport airline desk that there was a bomb at one of the check-in counters has been remanded in custody....
