Articles...
Mar 30 2007
A BRAND new £3 million extension has been opened at Somerville Primary, in Somerville Road, Small Heath - replacing "temporary" classrooms that actually lasted more than 20 years....
Mar 30 2007
ONE of the Birmingham Mail's most popular production journalists has died aged 60....
Mar 30 2007
A MERGER between two Birmingham trusts will improve healthcare to more than 1.5 million people, a health chief said today....
Mar 30 2007
BRITAIN'S biggest celebration of Asian culture is under way at the NEC, with thousands expected to attend the Asian Lifestyle Show 2007....
Mar 30 2007
IMMIGRATION minister and Birmingham MP Liam Byrne today ruled out an amnesty for the UK's hidden army of failed asylum seekers....
Mar 30 2007
POLICE are wearing Robocop-style head cams in a hi-tech crime fighting crackdown in Birmingham....
Mar 30 2007
POPULAR market trader Carl Spiegel is about to become a TV star - in an advert for tea....
Mar 30 2007
A WOMAN who dumped a stillborn baby girl in a river after giving birth in secret has been committed to Crown Court for sentence....
Mar 30 2007
JAILED former Birmingham City footballer Mark Ward was today ordered to pay back nearly £10,000 in ill-gotten gains....
Mar 30 2007
A BIRMINGHAM firm is celebrating after being awarded a £1.4m contract to supply sporrans to the new Royal Regiment of Scotland....
Mar 30 2007
FOLLOWING on from the huge success of the last series, Channel 4 music show Transmission With T-Mobile is back for 2007 - and we're offering you the chance to be a part of it....
Mar 30 2007
TWO Birmingham hospitals were today given the seal of approval to merge in a landmark ruling....
Mar 30 2007
A THIEF was today branded the 'lowest of the low' for stealing a Midland charity box....
Mar 30 2007
STARS will be dancing to a Midland schoolboy's tune after he was plucked from obscurity to record the soundtrack to the new Mr Bean movie....
Mar 30 2007
THE brother of a young man gunned down in Birmingham city centre has told a jury he did not beat to death a grandfather before stealing his credit cards....
Mar 30 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S coroner has criticised City Hospital following the death of a university student from chickenpox....
Mar 30 2007
A SUSPECTED drug smuggler stopped by Customs officers at Birmingham Airport tried to escape detection by swallowing a package of heroin....
Mar 30 2007
A BRUMMIE pop legend has helped drum up thousands of pounds for city children suffering from serious burns....
Mar 30 2007
AUSTRALIAN fast bowling legend Dennis Lillee was years ahead of his time when he attempted to use an aluminium bat against England in 1979, according to boffins at the University of Birmingham....
Mar 30 2007
ARMED with quails' eggs and silver spoons some of the city's top chefs triggered the race for tickets for the next Taste of Birmingham extravaganza this summer....
Mar 30 2007
RENEGADE pensioners are blaring out golden oldies on Birmingham buses to drown out youngsters' hip-hop, it was claimed today....
Mar 30 2007
A FORMER radio presenter has been given the royal seal of approval after finding a gift fit for a king among his attic clutter....
Mar 30 2007
POLICE believe that Pakistan and former Warwickshire cricket coach Bob Woolmer may have been strangled with a towel....
Mar 30 2007
LONGBRIDGE owners Nanjing's plans to launch MGs in the USA have been sidelined - with the much vaunted Oklahoma project hanging by a thread....
Mar 30 2007
THE majority of Birmingham City Council's most underpaid staff have accepted settlements of up to £32,500 to compensate them for years of low wages....
Mar 30 2007
A SURGICAL drilling robot has been used for the first time in a surgical operation in Birmingham....
Mar 30 2007
SOLIHULL'S casino should not be held up because of rows between Manchester and Blackpool....
Mar 30 2007
THREE men will each have to serve at least 15 years behind bars for the "brutal and vicious" murder of a Midland father bludgeoned to death with a hammer....
