Articles...
Mar 6 2007
DETECTIVES today said the "net was closing" on a gang of Birmingham armed robbers behind a string of hold-ups at exclusive jewellers across the country....
Mar 6 2007
POLICE are questioning a teenage woman and a 26-year-old man following the death of a man at a flat in Birmingham....
Mar 6 2007
A BIRMINGHAM student was seriously ill in hospital today after being stabbed outside a city centre college....
Mar 6 2007
POLICE have launched an investigation after a body was found amongst rubbish outside a block of flats....
Mar 6 2007
By Dale Williams...
Mar 6 2007
A MIDLAND soldier who died in the UK after he was injured during a patrol in south Basra in Iraq had been in the army for less than a year, the Ministry of Defence said....
Mar 6 2007
BUSINESS tycoon Sir Alan Sugar will meet his match when Birmingham's First Lady of Football Karren Brady takes part in a celebrity version of The Apprentice....
Mar 6 2007
NEARLY 300 council workers are facing annual pay cuts of £9,000 OR MORE in a huge shake-up of salaries....
Mar 6 2007
A BATTLE to save an historic Midland pub has taken a new twist after its owner appealed against a council's rejection for its plans to turn it into a luxury home....
Mar 6 2007
A PATHOLOGIST was unable to find the cause of death of a baby found in a brook near his Smethwick home, Birmingham Crown Court heard....
Mar 6 2007
POLICE were continuing their inquiries today into the death of a Midland boy who plunged 30ft down a cliff....
Mar 6 2007
A BIRMINGHAM crook behind a £185 million criminal empire has been told to repay almost £30 million under Britain's biggest-ever confiscation order....
Mar 6 2007
A PENSIONER died in hospital after a 13 hour wait for surgery because of a lack of staff and a series of administrative failings, his family said today....
Mar 6 2007
A MIDLAND man is searching for relatives of some of Birmingham's greatest war heroes to take part in a ceremony honouring winners of the Victoria Cross....
Mar 6 2007
THE West Midlands should have its own Government minister to oversee public spending, according to close allies of Gordon Brown....
Mar 6 2007
A MAN had a miraculous escape when he was trapped by his legs under a double-decker bus in Birmingham....
Mar 6 2007
THE voters of Birmingham came close to being given the right to decide who runs their city - five years ago....
Mar 6 2007
LIFE is about to take a new happier turn for Miracle, the bull terrier dumped and left to die in a wheelie bin in Birmingham by her heartless owners....
Mar 6 2007
REGGAE music is helping the recovery of poorly children at a Birmingham hospital....
Mar 6 2007
COUNCILLOR Mike Whitby really should watch his language. I don't mean that our city council leader has suddenly become potty-mouthed, just rather careless....
Mar 6 2007
THE deal to host the United States track and field team during the 2012 Olympics will help Birmingham bid for the Commonwealth Games and the World Championships....
Mar 6 2007
FIVE men were arrested in a series of dawn police raids to crack down on drug dealers peddling heroin on the streets of Birmingham....
Mar 6 2007
A COUPLE killed after a wave whipped up by high winds swept them off a harbour wall on the Cornish coast are believed to be from the Midlands....
Mar 6 2007
THIS was the moment a gang torched the top deck of a Birmingham bus as passengers sat downstairs....
Mar 6 2007
THREE Birmingham brothers who raised more than £3,500 in memory of their dad have nearly doubled their donations, thanks to the Birmingham Mail....
Mar 6 2007
SCORES of protesters braved pouring rain to voice their anger over massive cuts they say threaten to turn beautiful canals into "horrible, stinking, filthy ditches"....
Mar 6 2007
SHOPPERS who think butchers are losing out to supermarket giants should talk to Alan Doherty....
Mar 6 2007
THE father of a Midland military policeman killed by an Iraqi mob has conceded that his son's killers would never be brought to justice....
