Articles...
Jun 4 2007
A FORMER Lord Mayor of Birmingham today joined calls for a referendum on the way the city council is run....
Jun 4 2007
ASTON Villa skipper Gareth Barry was on the ball to collect the first major donation to Birmingham Children's Hospital's Red Balloon Appeal....
Jun 4 2007
AROUND 2,000 West Midlanders facing pensions heartache are set to win crucial support from the House of Lords in their five-year fight for compensation....
Jun 4 2007
PARENTS of children with special educational needs are being invited to attend a series of meetings across Birmingham aimed at helping to shape future provision....
Jun 4 2007
INHERITANCE comes in many shapes and sizes - and Jonathan Challinor's is in a class of its own....
Jun 4 2007
THE death of a man found dead near railway arches in Smethwick is no longer being treated as suspicious by police....
Jun 4 2007
A MASSIVE fundraising campaign for a courageous youngster born with no hands or feet has collected a staggering £65,000 in just six months, it was revealed today....
Jun 4 2007
AN ARCHITECT is believed to have been assaulted as tempers flared after controversial plans to convert a doctor's surgery into flats were given the green light....
Jun 4 2007
AN ex-miner wanted in connection with his estranged wife's murder was due to pay her more than £100,000 the day before she was stabbed, police disclosed today....
Jun 4 2007
PLANS for a stunning new £350 million city centre office, home and shopping development go on show this week....
Jun 4 2007
FRUSTRATED commuters were still struggling to get to work today, five days after vandals brought chaos to the region's Midland Metro service....
Jun 4 2007
THE widow of former Warwickshire cricket coach Bob Woolmer said she had heard "nothing new" from Jamaican authorities following claims police had concluded he was not murdered....
Jun 4 2007
POLICE investigating the death of a woman in the Midlands have appealed for help in trying to locate items of her clothing....
Jun 4 2007
I DID it! I completed my first triathlon - and didn't have to be carried over the finishing line on a stretcher!...
Jun 4 2007
BIRMINGHAM International Airport was today at the centre of claims of "shocking failures" of security - including staff sleeping on duty....
Jun 4 2007
THOUSANDS of runners toiled in the heat for charity, slogging around Sutton Coldfield at in the Great Midlands Fun Run....
Jun 4 2007
BEING struck down by the deadly brain bug meningitis once is bad enough, but battling Hannah Laffoley has had to fight off the disease seven times. ...
Jun 4 2007
A MIDLAND teenager is taking legal action against a film company after it used a photo of her on the cover of a porn movie....
Jun 4 2007
GOVERNMENT Minister Liam Byrne has backed angry mums fighting the opening of a probation centre near three schools, telling them: "It has to go."...
Jun 4 2007
A DISQUALIFIED driver, who drove the wrong way down a Birmingham dual carriageway at night, without lights and high on cocaine, has been jailed....