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May 2 2007
FOUR ornate fans which once belonged to Wallis Simpson are going under the hammer today....
May 2 2007
POLICE hunting a gang of violent bank raiders were today sifting through new leads after receiving dozens of calls following a new appeal....
May 2 2007
A MAN who sold ecstasy to two undercover police officers at a Midland music festival has been jailed for eight months....
May 2 2007
CHILDREN at a Birmingham primary school will be the first in the country to catch the "running bug"....
May 2 2007
COMPETITORS from as far as Belgium and Norway are arriving in Birmingham for three days of competition at the 14th National Open Dwarf Games....
May 2 2007
A FAMILY-RUN private school in Birmingham is to make it "business as usual" despite closing its doors for the last time in July....
May 2 2007
MORE than £240 million for regeneration in the West Midlands has been blocked because of concerns about poor accounting....
May 2 2007
POLITICAL fury erupted in Birmingham today as Labour activists were accused of 'dirty tricks' in the wake of the arrests of two Liberal Democrats in a new postal votes fraud inquiry....
May 2 2007
BOMBED, shot at and risking their lives every day, four brave young Birmingham soldiers have completed a year's service in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan....
May 2 2007
Tom Murphy is the ex-mayor of Pittsburgh who turned his city around. Here he explains why Birmingham can do the same....
May 2 2007
Tom Murphy is the ex-mayor of Pittsburgh who turned his city around. Here he explains why Birmingham can do the same....
May 2 2007
A PRIVATE lunch of top Birmingham business leaders and senior council officials has been told that strong elected mayors can drive the fortunes of major cities in the 21st century....
May 2 2007
AIRLINE group bmi today announced its pre-tax profits had soared by nearly 200 per cent to £29.7 million....
May 2 2007
CAMPAIGNERS were celebrating today after learning that Birmingham International Airport is to shelve controversial plans for a second runway....
May 2 2007
A WOMAN who stumbled onto the site of a horrific road crash that left a motorcyclist dead and a woman pedestrian fighting for her life today described it as a "scene from a nightmare".
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May 2 2007
A MAN tied a former friend to a tree at a beauty spot before dousing him in petrol, setting him on fire and turning him into a human fireball, a court was told....
May 2 2007
BLUES will celebrate their promotion in style when manager Steve Bruce and his players receive their medals on the Birmingham City Council House balcony on Bank Holiday Monday....
May 2 2007
STAFF at Tamworth's Peaks leisure centre walked out and closed the doors after new owners failed to meet a deadline to pay outstanding wages....
May 2 2007
POLICE have smashed a suspected dog-fighting ring following a series of raids in inner-city Birmingham....
May 2 2007
A LAND Rover employee who recruited his brother-in-law to help him sell £13,000 worth of stolen parts through eBay has been given a suspended prison sentence....
May 2 2007
A 22-YEAR-OLD man who hurled racial abuse at a nurse, security guard and police officer as they tried to help him has been jailed for 15 months....
May 2 2007
THREE men and a youth are to go on trial in connection with the stabbing of a disabled man in Staffordshire who remains in a coma....
May 2 2007
A TOTAL of 32 people are being questioned by detectives after raids targeting animal rights extremists including one in Worcestershire....
May 2 2007
POLICE have swooped on a suspected dog fighting ring in Birmingham....
May 2 2007
LIBERAL Democrats in Birmingham have accused their political opponents of dirty tricks after a councillor and a local election candidate were arrested in a postal votes fraud inquiry....
May 2 2007
POLICE investigating a "horrific" attack on four goats in Kingsbury, near Birmingham, have found a pair of broken shears which they believe were used to mutilate the animals....
