Articles...
Apr 26 2007
THE creator of cigar-chomping comic book and blockbuster film hero Hellboy is coming to Birmingham later this year....
Apr 26 2007
THE regeneration of the former MG Rover site at Longbridge is threatened by a decision to scale back much-needed transport improvements, claims Labour MP Richard Burden....
Apr 26 2007
TALENTED teenage dancing queen Megan Kerrigan has been crowned the winner of the World Irish Dancing Championships....
Apr 26 2007
KEITH Beech, the BBC's Head of Local Programmes for the West Midlands, responds to former presenter Robert Beckford's fears that there are not enough ethnic voices on the airwaves....
Apr 26 2007
A BIRMINGHAM walkway has closed for engineering works which will see it being moved a short distance to make way for a new development....
Apr 26 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S first Muslim MP Khalid Mahmood today added his name to those considering standing for elected mayor of the city....
Apr 26 2007
EDUCATION Secretary Alan Johnson had a health check at a pioneering centre in a Birmingham school which is bringing the medical profession to life for the next generation....
Apr 26 2007
A MAN was recovering in hospital today after he was stabbed as he drank in a pub....
Apr 26 2007
THE spectacle of lone demonstrator John Bull decked out in his Union Jack attire greeted people visiting one of Birmingham's busiest Post Office branches today....
Apr 26 2007
YOBS have vandalised a Red Cross ambulance so badly that it has been pulled out of action in the city....
Apr 26 2007
A SUGGESTED name for the University of Central England did not sit easily with bosses....
Apr 26 2007
A CONMAN got himself tied up in knots when he tried to dupe the manager of a city restaurant into paying a bogus dry cleaning bill for his silk neckpiece....
Apr 26 2007
BURGER chain McDonald's will be allowed to open its Paradise Forum restaurant in Birmingham city centre until 3.30am at weekends, despite warnings the move would create a "honey pot" for disorder....
Apr 26 2007
AMERICAN singer songwriter Loudon Wainwright today apologised to fans after his Symphony Hall show was cut short by ugly scenes of crowd violence....
Apr 26 2007
A KIND-hearted Birmingham Mail reader has made a touching gesture to help save the sight of a lorry driver who cannot get treatment on the NHS....
Apr 26 2007
THE parents of Christopher Clarke today called for Oceana to be closed down for good....
Apr 26 2007
THE city's new £5 million Oceana nightclub has been given "a severe warning" that it could be closed down because of police fears over drunkenness, fights and drugs....
Apr 26 2007
A YOUNG man was seriously injured after being shot in a Birmingham street....
Apr 26 2007
MOURNERS are due to gather in Coventry today for the funeral of a British teacher found murdered in a Tokyo apartment....
Apr 26 2007
THE Prime Minister has been tackled in the Commons over the possible closure of local authority residential care homes for the elderly in Staffordshire....
Apr 26 2007
THREE males are due in court charged with attempted murder after a stabbing which marred a Birmingham festival to celebrate the Sikh new year....
