Articles...
Jul 11 2007
ENGINEERS and planners working for councils across the West Midlands today criticised plans for local road pricing schemes....
Jul 11 2007
A THIRD Midland man has been cleared of taking part in ram raid on a bank cash sorting centre at Tamworth in which almost £2 million was stolen....
Jul 11 2007
DALEKS and cybermen are set to invade Birmingham later this month when a major Doctor Who convention rolls into town....
Jul 11 2007
A BNP councillor has been suspended for three months by Sandwell Council's standards committee....
Jul 11 2007
RECORD numbers of people are expected to take a stroll around the city for the annual BRMB Walkathon....
Jul 11 2007
A SOLIHULL child has been diagnosed as one of only 27 people in the world with a rare and incurable metabolic disorder....
Jul 11 2007
'DODGY' swimming pool cost estimates have thrown Birmingham City Council's leisure department into a back-biting fit of confusion....
Jul 11 2007
NO-FRILLS airline easyJet is to start operations at Birmingham International Airport later this year....
Jul 11 2007
FIVE people were left injured after a serious smash on a Birmingham road involving four cars....
Jul 11 2007
COMMUNITY leaders in Birmingham today condemned the decision to award controversial author Salman Rushdie a knighthood, and also spoke out against the resulting Al-Qaeda threats....
Jul 11 2007
SUPERMARKET giant Asda is in talks for a £25 million store on the derelict former South Works at Longbridge - creating up to 400 jobs....
Jul 11 2007
ALL four July 21 bombers were given life sentences at Woolwich Crown Court...
Jul 11 2007
A BIN strike is looming in Sandwell if senior councillors press ahead with a planned re-think of rubbish collection services, it was warned today....
Jul 11 2007
BRAVE shopkeeper Rashpal Mattu told today how he gave a gun-wielding robber the brush off when he chased him out of his shop by battering him with a broom....
Jul 11 2007
A BIRMINGHAM man celebrating his 20th birthday died when he was shot dead by the head of a mob of Asian men in a "revenge" attack on the black community, a jury was told....
Jul 11 2007
CHILDREN at a Birmingham primary school had a hundred reasons to enjoy its birthday celebrations....
Jul 11 2007
AN inquest will be opened tomorrow into the death of a pensioner who was tragically killed in a bus crash....
Jul 11 2007
A WOMAN died after her car careered off a Midland motorway and crashed into a field....
Jul 11 2007
THE family and friends of a 19-year-old who died trying to retrieve a ball in a Birmingham park lake are demanding a public inquiry....
Jul 11 2007
A YOUNG boy suffered singed hair and eyebrows after setting his bed on fire with a cigarette lighter, Birmingham firefighters said....
Jul 11 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S first elected mayor could very well be council leader Mike Whitby under plans being developed by the Conservative Party....
Jul 11 2007
EDGBASTON micro-sculptor Willard Wigan will tomorrow receive an MBE for services to art....
Jul 11 2007
THREE Midland universities have teamed up to launched the first courses in the UK for controversial American-style physician assistants....
Jul 11 2007
ALMOST half of Brummies feel more proud to be from Birmingham than they do to be British, a survey revealed today....
Jul 11 2007
GIFTED youngsters from the West Midlands will be visiting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra today to showcase their artistic talents....
Jul 11 2007
A SCHOOLTEACHER is facing jail after he sexually groomed a 14-year-old girl before abducting her in his car....
Jul 11 2007
FRIENDS of a popular Birmingham pub worker who died in a road accident today paid tribute to the "friendly giant"....
Jul 11 2007
ENGLAND and Warwickshire cricketer Ashley Giles has been giving tips to young players of the future in Birmingham....
Jul 11 2007
A DELEGATION from a leading Birmingham charity for the blind was heading to Westminster today for top-level talks on improving services for black and Asian communities....
Jul 11 2007
BIRMINGHAM has been decked in flora and fauna in a bid to win a national competition....
Jul 11 2007
SENIOR councillors today raised significant doubts over Birmingham's plans for seven city academies which will be backed by local sponsors....
Jul 11 2007
SHE may have downed tools 20 years ago, but for 100-year-old former jeweller Winifred Wheway, the memories never faded....
Jul 11 2007
THE manager of a Midland deaf charity has been ordered to pay £2,310 to a former employee with severe hearing problems after an industrial tribunal heard how she had been discriminated against....
Jul 11 2007
THE Rt Rev Dr John Inge, currently Bishop of Huntingdon in the Diocese of Ely, has been appointed as the next Bishop of Worcester, it was announced yesterday by 10 Downing Street. ...
Jul 11 2007
CLARE Short has dismissed Alastair Campbell's attacks on her in his diaries as the words of a bully....
