Articles...
Apr 5 2007
HUNDREDS of mourners paid their last respects today to a Royal Navy submariner killed in an accident under the Arctic ice cap....
Apr 5 2007
IT is a dream job for someone big enough to cope with it....
Apr 5 2007
UP to 120 jobs could be lost at Whittington Barracks in Staffordshire, according to armed forces minister Adam Ingram....
Apr 5 2007
THE 15 British sailors and marines freed from captivity in Iran arrived home in Britain this afternoon to an emotional reunion with their families....
Apr 5 2007
SINN Fein could be withholding information on who planted 1974 bombs for which the Birmingham Six were wrongfully jailed, the deputy Irish premier has told the Dail parliament....
Apr 5 2007
FORMER Birmingham City Council chief Sir Michael Lyons has been appointed the new chairman of the BBC, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced....
Apr 5 2007
ONE of the six Labour councillors sacked in the inner city vote rigging scandal of 2004 hopes to bounce back at the polls next month....
Apr 5 2007
A DERANGED knifeman who took a terrified teenage Birmingham shopper hostage after lashing out at two women police officers has been locked up indefinitely....
Apr 5 2007
HUNDREDS of workers at luxury Midland car firm Aston Martin are to walkout in a pay dispute less than a month after the company changed hands in a £479 million takeover....
Apr 5 2007
TONY Blair today guaranteed Government support for a £500 million plan to transform New Street Station and pledged: "We are prepared to put the money in."...
Apr 5 2007
BIRMINGHAM grandad Gerry Kennedy is feeling on top of the world today....
Apr 5 2007
THE most powerful public transport boss in Britain is coming to Birmingham to take part in a major debate on the state of buses in the region....
Apr 5 2007
THANKS for saving our lives! Toddler twins Katie and Chloe O'Sullivan returned to the Birmingham neonatal unit where they both spent the first three months of their lives, to give staff a cuddle....
Apr 5 2007
FURIOUS conservationists want to pull the plug on the monster TV screen in Birmingham's Chamberlain Square which they claim is even more of an eyesore now restoration work has finished on the Town Hall next door....
Apr 5 2007
A MIDLAND man who claimed almost £80,000 disability benefit while working as a gardener and handyman was today starting a 12-month jail sentence....
Apr 5 2007
A NEW group is asking people who know of African Caribbean children who are not in school, to ring a confidential hotline....
Apr 5 2007
FORGET bingo, croquet or a leisurely game of bowls. Birmingham's golden oldies are taking up belly dancing classes....
Apr 5 2007
A BIRMINGHAM teenager is packing up her kit bag after being given the honour of attending the World Scout Jamboree this summer....
Apr 5 2007
BUDDING young thespians at a Birmingham school donned costumes to stage a play as they celebrated Easter....
