Articles...
Aug 2 2007
NEWLY-appointed Minister for the West Midlands Liam Byrne today said more jobs, transport and new homes were at the heart of his plans for the region....
Aug 2 2007
THE Environment Agency has saved hundreds of fish left stranded in receding floodwater - four summers after a similar operation launched on the same river in response to drought conditions....
Aug 2 2007
A SUTTON Coldfield soldier killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Iraq has been named as Corporal Steve Edwards by the Ministry of Defence....
Aug 2 2007
SIX people were arrested today for possessing Class A drugs following dawn raids by police on houses across Staffordshire....
Aug 2 2007
TWO Midland firefighters have been sacked after claims a fireman dressed as a high-ranking officer and was filmed as part of a practical joke on a young recruit....
Aug 2 2007
A DRIVER who took his parents' car without consent wrote it off when he lost control and demolished a garage, a court heard....
Aug 2 2007
ALMOST 800 West Midlands police officers and staff were assaulted in the last year, new figures show....
Aug 2 2007
THE co-owner of a garage at the centre of a blaze in which 100ft fireballs exploded said his business faces losing thousands of pounds....
Aug 2 2007
FIFTY firefighters battled to contain a scrap-yard blaze which sent flames shooting 60ft into the air and left a huge pall of smoke which could be seen across Birmingham....
Aug 2 2007
A FLIGHT was forced back to Birmingham International Airport when fumes caused both pilots to suffer tunnel vision and loss of balance and feeling in their hands....
Aug 2 2007
THE heartbroken mum of a Birmingham soldier who was killed while protecting his comrades in Afghanistan says his death has left a huge hole that can never be filled....
Aug 2 2007
A £150 MILLION sale of surplus housing land is being used to speed up the supply of affordable homes to city families who can't afford to get on the property ladder....
Aug 2 2007
A CONVICTED robber from Birmingham has gone on the run from a controversial open prison in the Midlands....
Aug 2 2007
A BEVY of bespectacled beauties came under the close eye of the Birmingham Mail when we joined the search to find the Midlander with the best 'bins'....
Aug 2 2007
A BIRMINGHAM radio presenter is collecting food, chews, bones and blankets for the region's needy four-legged friends....
Aug 2 2007
BIRMINGHAM New Street is one of the worst major rail stations in Britain according to a survey released today....
Aug 2 2007
A SHAMED PE teacher in Birmingham found guilty of accessing "graphic" adult porn, had no direct contact with disabled pupils at a 'partner' special needs school....
Aug 2 2007
TWO cancer patients died hours after being given FIVE times the normal dose of medication at a Birmingham hospital....
Aug 2 2007
POLICE are appealing for information after a pervert flashed a young girl....
Aug 2 2007
AN independent inquiry into care in the community failings of cop killer Glaister Butler has still not been completed more than two years after it was announced....
Aug 2 2007
BIRMINGHAM city centre was overwhelmed by hundreds of youngsters who gathered to celebrate Scouting's 100th birthday....
Aug 2 2007
STUNNED passers-by were looking to the heavens when they saw a man precariously climbing up the steeple of a Birmingham cathedral....
Aug 2 2007
A SUSPECTED drugs den, which made life a misery for neighbouring residents, has been shut down....
Aug 2 2007
IT WAS one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. Now, almost a century later, a team of Birmingham archaeologists is hoping to shed new light on the First World War....
Aug 2 2007
SPECULATION the Super Prix could be coming back to Birmingham has hit the skids, with council chiefs saying "it'll never happen"....
Aug 2 2007
A FORMER nurse is being denied a potentially life-saving anti-cancer drug by the very health organisation she worked for....
Aug 2 2007
The World Taekwondo Championship is in full swing at the NIA and the Birmingham Mail's video reporter Phil Vinter came across the Canadian team in Centenary Square....
Aug 2 2007
CADBURY Schweppes has revealed a six per cent fall in profits for the first six months of the year - just over a month after announcing 7,500 jobs would go....
Aug 2 2007
POLICE are having to use DNA and dental records to formally identify the body of a young Midland woman found off the Isle of Wight....
Aug 2 2007
A MAN has been put behind bars for seven years for raping a 13-year-old schoolgirl in Wolverhampton....
