Articles...
Aug 16 2007
A MIDLAND pop idol and his famous friends delighted youngsters by choosing their school to film a kids' TV programme....
Aug 16 2007
STAFF at a tool shop in Birmingham were held up at gunpoint today by an armed gang who struck as they were taking in a delivery....
Aug 16 2007
A £3,000 memorial has been unveiled at a VJ Parade in Wolverhampton to honour heroes from the Second World War's "Forgotten Army" - and the wishes of two ailing Burma Star veterans....
Aug 16 2007
ORGANISERS of the Sandwell Show have vowed it will go on - but in a scaled down form at a different venue....
Aug 16 2007
A LANDMARK chimney of a Victorian mill destroyed in an arson attack was today demolished....
Aug 16 2007
BAGGIES star Jonathan Greening was sprayed in the face with CS gas when he assaulted a policeman following a disturbance in a Birmingham bar, a court heard....
Aug 16 2007
A PREGNANT woman and her four-year-old daughter were hospitalised in a crash between a car and a bus packed with passengers....
Aug 16 2007
SCHOOLS Minister Jim Knight congratulated Birmingham's students on an anticipated improvement as they collected their make or break A-level results today....
Aug 16 2007
A GIRL has been awarded £40,000 compensation after her life was ruined by a catalogue of Birmingham social worker blunders....
Aug 16 2007
EVERYONE knows cats are cool, so I was feline fine when the boss asked me to be made up as a character for the hit musical Cats....
Aug 16 2007
POLICE probing the murder of M40 biker Gerard Tobin were today sifting through new evidence after a "positive" public response to appeals....
Aug 16 2007
A BIRMINGHAM cop who persistently stalked his former girlfriend has been sent for anger management classes after being convicted of harassment....
Aug 16 2007
ANGUS the Lobster was destined to end up as posh nosh - but the supersized delicacy has been saved by a big-hearted market trader to take pride of place at a Birmingham attraction....
Aug 16 2007
A MOTHER-of-four swindled the state out of more than £54,000 by hiding the fact she was married, Birmingham Crown Court was told....
Aug 16 2007
LOW fare airline Ryanair is to boost its Birmingham to Dublin services from 17 to 24 flights per week from late October....
Aug 16 2007
POLICE are looking into the theory that a blaze which gutted a popular fast food restaurant may have been started by someone with a grudge....
Aug 16 2007
OLYMPIC hopeful Elizabeth Smith is turning her life upside down to chase a medal at the 2012 Olympics in London, and she's all smiles about it....
Aug 16 2007
A WOMAN has spoken of her relief after her "bullying" father who "took her childhood away" was convicted of sexually abusing her 20 years ago at her home in Birmingham....
Aug 16 2007
NATIONAL pub chain JD Wetherspoons has scaled down plans for a late night club in Birmingham's gay quarter following protests from city centre residents....
Aug 16 2007
TWO motorists were trapped in their cars by flash flooding as torrential rain swept through the Midlands....
Aug 16 2007
ELVIS was back in the building almost 30 years after his death having raised vital funds for the search for missing Madeleine McCann....
Aug 16 2007
DETECTIVES investigating the fatal shooting of a biker on the busy M40 in Warwickshire have received more than 300 calls from members of the public in the UK and abroad....
