Articles...
Apr 20 2007
IT'S just like a conventional relay, except in this case the baton is topped with a platinum and diamond encrusted prancing horse - the symbol of Ferrari....
Apr 20 2007
MANCHESTER United's website warning to its fans travelling to Rome last week proved well-founded....
Apr 20 2007
A VIOLENT drug addict who preyed on elderly and disabled Birmingham women was today behind bars....
Apr 20 2007
ALMOST 100 passengers and crew were caught in a mid-air drama when a Birmingham-bound plane was minutes from smashing into a television mast....
Apr 20 2007
A SMALL Birmingham company which has developed a £5 million a year order book with a unique blood test to fight bone cancer was today honoured by the Queen....
Apr 20 2007
A DAUGHTER of a man who gave his life to Birmingham's buses missed out on the chance to speak to travel bosses because her service didn't turn up on time....
Apr 20 2007
BATTLING against cancer was hard enough, but brave Birmingham mum-of-two Victoria Littlehales had the additional trauma of being seen as a "Frankenstein's monster" by her children....
Apr 20 2007
THE appeal of three British holiday company employees, one of them from the Midlands, convicted over the death of a young girl in a boating accident was adjourned today....
Apr 20 2007
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl has been sexually assaulted while walking in parkland in Birmingham....
Apr 20 2007
AN unemployed man who converted the downstairs of his Birmingham home into an illegal dog fighting venue has been jailed for four months....
Apr 20 2007
A FORMER railway worker has been jailed for 10 years for a campaign of vandalism and destruction on the West Midlands rail network....
Apr 20 2007
A 44-YEAR-OLD woman held in connection with the murder of a man in Sedgley has been released without charge....
Apr 20 2007
POLICE are probing potential links between the murder of a man found stabbed to death in West Bromwich and a man who fell to his death from a building in Birmingham city centre on the same day....
Apr 20 2007
THREE people had a "miracle" escape today when a works van swerved off a busy road and demolished a bus-stop in Birmingham....
Apr 20 2007
A MINICAB driver who raped and sexually humiliated a university student after picking her up in Birmingham city centre has been jailed for 12 years....
Apr 20 2007
POST boxes have been sealed up across two Birmingham suburbs in a bid to stop thugs from stealing parcels after a terrified Royal Mail worker was attacked and her keys to the boxes were stolen....
Apr 20 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S Conservatives are said to be miffed by revelations that David Cameron has been wooing Karren Brady to stand as mayoral candidate....
Apr 20 2007
A BIRMINGHAM MP today described Blues chief Karren Brady has having the right calibre to lead Brum as elected mayor....
Apr 20 2007
A SUPERGRAN has picked up a coveted bravery award for standing up to a neighbour from hell in Solihull....
Apr 20 2007
The public turned up to put their questions to Birmingham's bus bosses. Here is a selection, and the answers they received....
Apr 20 2007
SCORES of angry passengers clashed with transport policy makers in a heated row over safety on the buses....
Apr 20 2007
A BIRMINGHAM child prodigy, who saved an engineering firm almost £80,000 as a teenager on work experience, has died after his bicycle was in a collision with a bin lorry....
Apr 20 2007
A PAEDOPHILE who took indecent photographs of children and attempted to rape a youngster worked as a supply teacher in Birmingham, it has emerged....
Apr 20 2007
NUDE pictures from a West Midland graffiti artist's latest collection sold for over £200,000 in just five minutes....
Apr 20 2007
BUSINESSMEN and women threw off their suits and donned fancy dress for a special race to raise cash for a good cause....
Apr 20 2007
HUNDREDS of former Longbridge workers meet up with old workmates tonight to mark the second anniversary of the historic car plant's collapse....
Apr 20 2007
HOLY men are blessing the site of a new £40 million mental health centre to mark the 12-month countdown to its grand opening....
Apr 20 2007
HISTORIC Birmingham Town Hall is to re-open after more than a decade with a fanfare ranging from rock legends Robert Plant and Bev Bevan to gospel and classical acts....
Apr 20 2007
A MOTOR racing champion from the Midlands fears her future in the sport hangs in the balance after losing her main sponsor....
Apr 20 2007
THE smoking ban may be more than two months away, but hundreds of taxis and private hire vehicles in Birmingham are already cigarette-free zones....
Apr 20 2007
A SERIOUSLY ill Midland pensioner is being denied desperately needed care because his wheelchair is too big, his distraught wife has claimed....
Apr 20 2007
AN inquest into the death of murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been postponed indefinitely because of "recent and significant developments" in the case, the Jamaican government said today....
Apr 20 2007
ICONIC Birmingham landmark the Mailbox is on the market for £300 million - triggering the city's biggest ever commercial property deal....
Apr 20 2007
A BRITISH-born student shot three times by US campus killer Cho Seung-Hui has described how he played dead to fool the gunman and then heard the mass killer shoot himself....
Apr 20 2007
A SOLIHULL holiday company employee is to appeal against his conviction over the death of a young girl in a boating accident....
Apr 20 2007
THE funeral of an English teacher from the West Midlands whose body was found buried in a bath of sand in a Tokyo apartment will take place next week....
Apr 20 2007
TWO masked men pounced on a schoolgirl in West Bromwich and sexually assaulted her, police revealed today....
