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Jun 6 2007
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Jun 6 2007
CLOSING time is looming for some of Birmingham's most historic pubs and conservationists are urging the council to act before part of the city's recreational heritage is lost for ever....
Jun 6 2007
ENDURANCE athlete Stuart Westwood is flexing his muscles for a superhuman challenge - the half Ironman triathlon world championships in the United States....
Jun 6 2007
A MAN who admitted running an illegal waste transfer station in Birmingham has been fined £2,000....
Jun 6 2007
WORKERS putting the finishing touches to the £4 million transformation of Aston Villa's historic Holte Hotel pub say their work has truly been a "labour of love"....
Jun 6 2007
NATIONAL Refugee Week is to be launched in Birmingham later this month....
Jun 6 2007
LAND Phil, the walking rubbish heap, is the latest recruit in the fight to go green and protect the environment in Birmingham....
Jun 6 2007
A WORLD War II gunner who wrote a book about how he survived a crash landing in France is supporting the hospice who helped him cope with another great battle, the death of his only son....
Jun 6 2007
LOW cost airline bmibaby has announced its biggest ever winter programme from Birmingham with 340 flights per week to 19 European destinations....
Jun 6 2007
MEMBERS of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus who have been on song for 280 years between them have been rewarded with long-service awards....
Jun 6 2007
BBC WM travel girl Punam Verma loves nothing better than spending a weekend abroad on holiday....
Jun 6 2007
A NEW Birmingham date has been added for Cirque Du Soleil's breathtaking Delirium UK tour....
Jun 6 2007
THE grieving parents of a hero Black Country soldier killed in action in Afghanistan today revealed it was his childhood dream to join the Army....
Jun 6 2007
TRIBUTES were paid today to a former Mayoress of Walsall who has died aged 92....
Jun 6 2007
ALMOST 500 Birmingham council workers a year are being sacked in a purge on crime, moonlighting, absenteeism, and incompetence, it was revealed today....
Jun 6 2007
VANDALS have attacked a controversial new Birmingham probation centre, daubing a "no perverts" slogan on a wall....
Jun 6 2007
A HUGE programme of 600 job cuts at Birmingham-based Severn Trent was confirmed today....
Jun 6 2007
COUNCILLORS voted against giving themselves an inflation-busting 4.3 per cent pay rise as a mark of "solidarity" with city council staff facing pay cuts....
Jun 6 2007
BIRMINGHAM civic leaders vowed not to get rid of weekly refuse collections in the face of pressure to move to a fortnightly service....
Jun 6 2007
THE man who has approved a £250,000 facelift for Birmingham's "flats of shame" has hit out at their years of neglect....
Jun 6 2007
FRAIL three-year-old Eva Winston-Hart has been given a potentially life-saving transplant in Birmingham, following a global search for a suitable donor....
Jun 6 2007
A TEENAGE Sikh girl was today being guarded by police amid claims she had been forced to convert to Islam....
Jun 6 2007
A MOTORCYCLIST suffered critical injuries after he hit a roundabout crash barrier....
Jun 6 2007
POLICE recovered a massive haul of drugs in a dramatic swoop on a car in a Midland town centre....
Jun 6 2007
THEY are cute and cuddly and need to find new homes, with loving, responsible owners....
Jun 6 2007
NEW scientific techniques led to the arrest of a man for a rape in Birmingham 17 years ago, a jury was told....
Jun 6 2007
BRITAIN fails to help immigrants feel part of society, David Cameron warned after a night with a Muslim family in Birmingham....
Jun 6 2007
THE more holidays the better was the view among most people in Birmingham when asked what they thought of having a Britain Day....
Jun 6 2007
A NETWORK of overseas offices promoting the West Midlands abroad is damaging the region's economy and must be scrapped, say MPs....
Jun 6 2007
TROUBLED Cadbury Schweppes is to axe almost 10 per cent of its top management as part of a massive programme of cuts expected to total £300 million....
Jun 6 2007
HE may be a time traveller in Dr Who, but jet travel didn't suit John Barrowman as he headed for Birmingham Hippodrome to launch this year's Christmas pantomime....
Jun 6 2007
A DENTISTRY student from Solihull has been charged with the murder of a pregnant teenager....
Jun 6 2007
AN historic Black Country beer may live on as a seasonal brew after real ale lovers gathered a 1,000-name petition to save it from extinction....
Jun 6 2007
THREE Birmingham people have denied murdering a teenage boy found stabbed at a bus stop....
Jun 6 2007
BIRMINGHAM confectionery giant Cadbury Schweppes has sold another batch of businesses as it remained on track to generate £250 million from disposals by the end of the year....
