Articles...
Jun 25 2007
THE Belfry is to undergo a huge £200 million revamp to create the Midlands' only five-star hotel and provide a "world-class" boost to its golf facilities....
Jun 25 2007
A MAN was stabbed in the neck and another in the leg when a row exploded into violence on a Birmingham petrol station forecourt....
Jun 25 2007
A TEENAGE kickboxing champion from the Black Country has been jailed for 21 months for his part in a major cigarette smuggling scam....
Jun 25 2007
THE boss of the city's smoking "police" today warned Birmingham's pubs and clubs to prepare for a zero tolerance crackdown....
Jun 25 2007
THE Selfridges spider-boy who stunned the city by scaling the iconic shop today said: "It felt like being on top of the world."...
Jun 25 2007
A THIEF has stolen a handbag containing 10,000 US dollars from a car parked in Hanbury, near Bromsgrove....
Jun 25 2007
AN overhaul of religious education in Birmingham will see moral values placed at the centre of the syllabus....
Jun 25 2007
A REFUGEE battling against deportation has met with Birmingham MP Lynne Jones who helped her to win a further temporary stay in UK....
Jun 25 2007
A YOUNG mum was today seriously ill in hospital with extensive head injuries after she was knocked down on a Birmingham road by a hit-and-run driver....
Jun 25 2007
THOUSANDS of revellers had a swashbuckling time as pirates swapped walking the plank for a stroll down Harborne's High Street which played host to some hearty carnival capers....
Jun 25 2007
ANOTHER month's worth of rain was expected in more torrential downpours across the Midlands today....
Jun 25 2007
A PLANNED protest inviting people to smoke cannabis at a Birmingham park failed to take place....
Jun 25 2007
OLYMPIC supremo Seb Coe arrives in Birmingham today on a major charm offensive to sell the 2012 London Games to the West Midlands....
Jun 25 2007
ROAD safety campaigners have lashed out after reports that disgraced former West Bromwich Albion soccer star Lee Hughes was let out of jail for a day to resurrect his football career....
Jun 25 2007
TWO men escaped with their lives after the car they were in careered off a motorway in the Midlands - shooting over a brook, then ploughing through a fence....
Jun 25 2007
FANS of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin could see their idols again after reports that the group is planning to re-form for a massive world tour....
Jun 25 2007
THE husband of a lawyer who hanged herself blamed a four-year fraud inquiry into her company for her suicide....
Jun 25 2007
THIS year's Kings Heath Carnival could have been the last after a cash crisis....
Jun 25 2007
POLICE today appealed for help to trace a Birmingham teenager who has been missing from her home for more than a month....
Jun 25 2007
A MAN has appeared in court charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder following an incident in Smethwick....
Jun 25 2007
A BIRMINGHAM-born man who has lived in America for the past 50 years had an emotional reunion with long lost friends when a city school staged a two-day party to celebrate its 150th birthday....
Jun 25 2007
PATHOLOGISTS were today examining the body of a West Midland man who died from a suspected drugs overdose at the Glastonbury Festival....
