Mar
2007
Articles from 21st Mar 2007
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Twins buy Peugeot factory site
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
THE Peugeot site in Coventry was sold yesterday to the Barclay brothers, raising the prospect of hundreds of new jobs at the former car plant. Read
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Sex shame of former footballer
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A FORMER professional footballer now living in Birmingham has been fined £500 for having sex in public in the presence of a three year-old child. Read
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I'll make sure Reece is brought up to know who his Nana was
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
THE daughter of a woman who is feared dead after vanishing in Birmingham today made an emotional appeal to the prime suspect in her disappearance: "Tell me where my mum is." Read
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Hospitals patrolled by smoking 'police'
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
SMOKING wardens are to patrol the grounds of Solihull and Heartlands hospitals in a bid to make smokers comply with the new ban. Read
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Hit-squad targets 'Beirut' of Brum
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A HIT-squad has been sent in to clean up a 1,700-home estate that looks "more like Beirut than Birmingham". Read
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Gridlock blamed on new high rises
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A LEADING councillor has suggested Birmingham should ban more skyscrapers until it sorts out its growing traffic problems. Read
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Evil parasite jailed for life
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A MAN who brutally killed his prostitute partner has been jailed for life and told he must spend at least 17 years behind bars. Read
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Brum's slave shame
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A CHANCE to pick up and hold a heavy spiked neck shackle, a branding iron or a half-face muzzle does more to bring home the full horror of slavery than any history book. Read
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Boss up in court after complaints
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A NEW scambuster team set up to investigate consumer complaints has resulted in a West Midlands businessman being hauled before the courts for flouting the law. Read
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A lifetime of Villa history up for sale
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
DEVOTED Aston Villa fan Gerald Harris spent much of his life dutifully collecting programmes and photographs of his claret and blue heroes. Read
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TV show winner moves on
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
THE first Apprentice winner, Tim Campbell, has quit his £100,000-a-year job with Sir Alan Sugar. Read
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Shops victory by Mail!
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
GRIM, run-down shops should be radically transformed over the next six months - thanks to the Birmingham Mail. Read
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Police: Woolmer death suspicious
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
THE death of Pakistan and former Warwickshire cricket coach Bob Woolmer is being treated as suspicious, police in Jamaica revealed today. Read
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Plucked to safety
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
A HIGH-RISE rope team rescued two window cleaners after their electronic cradle jammed on the side of Birmingham's Mailbox. Read
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New rates in tax shake-up
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
RESIDENTS in the most expensive homes in the Midlands will face higher council tax bills and those living in the cheapest properties will pay less, under proposals expected to be announced today. Read
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Hundreds in 'overwhelming' vote to demand ballot
Mar 21 2007 | Top Stories
MORE than 850 members of the public have voted to throw their weight behind the call for an elected mayor referendum in Birmingham. Read
