Articles...
Jun 20 2007
THIS weekend sees a top music mogul come to Birmingham to audition girls for places in a new supergroup aimed at being a modern day mix of the Spice Girls, The Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud and Atomic Kitten - and there's still time arrange your audition....
Jun 20 2007
A MIDLAND college lecturer has been killed in a tragic quad bike accident on a dream holiday with her boyfriend, it was revealed today....
Jun 20 2007
A BIRMINGHAM man serving life for the murder of a soldier who was shot dead hours after arriving back in the UK on leave has lost an appeal against his conviction....
Jun 20 2007
EVIL would-be cop killer Marcus Bailey snarls for the camera - as he points a gun at his own head....
Jun 20 2007
POLICE were today investigating footage apparently showing a teenager climbing to the top of Birmingham's iconic Selfridges building....
Jun 20 2007
A PAEDOPHILE already serving a prison sentence for offences against children has been jailed for eight years for having sex with a young girl....
Jun 20 2007
A VIOLENT thug from Wolverhampton who shot an unarmed police officer with a Magnum revolver has been jailed for life....
Jun 20 2007
A PRO-cannabis protest inviting people to smoke the drug in Birmingham's main park has been advertised on the city council's website, it was revealed today....
Jun 20 2007
A CLUBBER was attacked and had her handbag stolen in a Worcestershire nightclub....
Jun 20 2007
FASHION stars of the future took to the stage in Birmingham to showcase their creations in a colourful catwalk display....
Jun 20 2007
A WELL-known former Midland pub landlord has been charged with a series of child sex offences spanning 30 years....
Jun 20 2007
CAMPAIGNERS battling to save an historic pub from being permanently shut have been given fresh hope for its future....
Jun 20 2007
A 99-YEAR-OLD Birmingham woman had hundreds of pounds stolen by a doorstep trickster who conned his way into her home....
Jun 20 2007
LAND Rover is claiming £200 million from the financial collapse of Longbridge, it was revealed today....
Jun 20 2007
A MAN who forced a young girl to eat raw chillies in a "prolonged" act of cruelty has been jailed for 12 months....
Jun 20 2007
EVIL would-be cop killer Marcus Bailey snarls for the camera - as he points a gun at his own head....
Jun 20 2007
AN 86-year-old woman was dragged along the pavement as thieves stole her handbag....
Jun 20 2007
WOUNDED policeman Geoff King, who has not yet returned to work, said his shooting still haunted his every waking moment....
Jun 20 2007
GOVERNMENT military watchdogs are to hear evidence in Birmingham on the controversial treatment of injured soldiers in the city....
Jun 20 2007
WORKERS at a Birmingham pub were threatened at knifepoint and locked away by armed robbers....
Jun 20 2007
A FORMER soldier convicted of rigging up camera equipment to spy on a woman as she showered has lost his appeal against conviction....
Jun 20 2007
THE owner of a popular Arabic shesha café, where customers smoke flavoured tobacco through a Hookah water pipe, claims he is being driven out of business by the July 1 smoking ban....
Jun 20 2007
A STUDENT from Smethwick who "adopted" an unknown soldier who died in World War I is to read out a poem to the Queen....
Jun 20 2007
THE future of tourism in the Midlands has been dealt a severe blow with the impending closure of the region's major tourist board....
Jun 20 2007
STORE wars are set to break out in Birmingham after supermarket giant Asda revealed it is targeting sites in the south of the city - including Longbridge....
Jun 20 2007
BRAVE security guard Kevan Parry didn't think twice when he saw a gunman holding two nurses and a doctor hostage at a Birmingham hospital....
Jun 20 2007
BOURNVILLE will continue to be the heart of Cadbury "as long as there is breath in my body", the chief executive of Cadbury Schweppes has pledged....
Jun 20 2007
PRETTY awful - that was the scathing criticism of the authorities' performance after flooding left dozens of Tamworth families homeless. ...
Jun 20 2007
LINKS to Birmingham's slave trade past were as strong as the yokes and chains being worn by demonstrators as they staged a march to mark the bicentenary of abolition....
