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Aug 17 2007
A SPEEDING motorist died when he overtook another vehicle, lost control and ploughed into a tree, an inquest heard....
Aug 17 2007
A BIRMINGHAM airman who died during a rocket attack in Iraq was hailed as a hero with a knack of raising morale....
Aug 17 2007
SSSHHH... One of the biggest names in the world of chocolate is creeping back on to a shop shelf near you....
Aug 17 2007
SOUL star Lemar has admitted It's Not Easy when it comes to helping to save the planet, especially when you're a celebrity jet-setter regularly catching flights on fuel guzzling aeroplanes...
Aug 17 2007
A NEW look Taxi will soon be on streets of Birmingham - vying for business alongside the Black Cabs....
Aug 17 2007
BRAINY Birmingham schoolboy Josckd Gibbons is continuing to push back the academic barriers after achieving "unbelievable" success in his A-level results, published today....
Aug 17 2007
ANSWERING phones and making the tea is the best many youngsters can expect from a period of work experience, but one talented teenager had other ideas....
Aug 17 2007
POLICE investigating the murder of a motorcyclist on the M40 today said they had received "significant information" about the killing....
Aug 17 2007
VintageCARA Quinton is getting revved up for a 3,000 mile fund-raising trip with her prized Mini that brings back to life one of the best loved films of the Swinging Sixties....
Aug 17 2007
NEW "super buses" are set to be introduced on six major routes across Birmingham, in a bid to encourage more people to use public transport....
Aug 17 2007
RAIL commuters across the Midlands today received a £164 million boost - with a deal to bring 37 new 100mph trains for the Birmingham to London route....
Aug 17 2007
POLICE used a high-voltage stun gun to subdue an armed man during a siege at a house in Dudley....
Aug 17 2007
VETERAN BBC WM presenter Ed Doolan today said he is raring to go and can't wait to get back behind the microphone after having life-saving heart surgery....
Aug 17 2007
IF you want to know all about pokeys, spikes, blocks and digs, then head for yet another of Birmingham's beaches which is specially devoted to volleyball....
Aug 17 2007
A TOP consultant psychiatrist has resigned from Birmingham Children's Hospital as a result of the continuing row over its plans to axe beds on a psychiatric ward....
Aug 17 2007
A MOTORIST was killed in a fireball after his truck hit a tree and careered into a ditch near Sutton Coldfield....
Aug 17 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S selective King Edward VI schools have attacked "ignorant" politicians who criticise grammars without bothering to visit them....
Aug 17 2007
LANGUAGE has proved no barrier for a Somalian refugee who can now begin to fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor after achieving academic success in her adopted Birmingham....
Aug 17 2007
PARTYING students in Birmingham have been told not to forget their condoms when they go out celebrating after getting their results....
Aug 17 2007
THE number of people given formal warnings for cannabis possession has shot up in the years since the drug was de-classified, Home Office figures revealed....
Aug 17 2007
A PASSENGER on a flight from Birmingham has described the terrifying moment when the Flybe plane was struck by lightning....
Aug 17 2007
AIR Ambulance cover across Staffordshire is set to be increased with a permanent base launched there by the end of the year....
Aug 17 2007
DJ UGLY Phil is set to leave Birmingham-based radio station Kerrang, it was revealed today....
Aug 17 2007
SINGER Amy Winehouse has pulled out of this weekend's V Festival and cancelled all her touring commitments for August....
