Articles...
Sep 17 2007
POLICE will hold the body of a murdered 81-year-old city grandmother for at least another two weeks for legal reasons....
Sep 17 2007
A SPECTACULAR fireworks display brought Birmingham city centre to a standstill as the city's annual arts festival hit top gear in front of thousands of families....
Sep 17 2007
BBC WM presenter Danny Kelly apologised to listeners yesterday - after missing the first hour of his own show....
Sep 17 2007
AROUND 15,000 Birmingham homeowners, schoolchildren and office workers were hit by a major water mains burst which brought chaos to the city today....
Sep 17 2007
MUSICIANS, poets and political speakers linked up to strike the right chord at a major event....
Sep 17 2007
HUNDREDS of firefighters were today threatening an all-out strike in support of two colleagues sacked over a practical joke on a young recruit....
Sep 17 2007
ANXIOUS savers queued from dawn in Birmingham today to empty their Northern Rock accounts as the bank's crisis deepened....
Sep 17 2007
HUNDREDS of council tenants in Birmingham are doing moonlight flits to escape paying overdue rent....
Sep 17 2007
A TRAIN-mad Birmingham schoolboy who suffers from a rare muscle wasting disease had the birthday trip of a lifetime in the driver's cab of a high speed train....
Sep 17 2007
BIRMINGHAM is helping spearhead a resurgence in the popularity of traditional ales....
Sep 17 2007
HUNDREDS of bikers paid their final respects to one of their own, shot dead on a Midland motorway....
Sep 17 2007
JASPER Carrott held back the tears to become only the second celebrity to make it onto to the Birmingham Walk of Stars....
Sep 17 2007
A CADBURY worker has denied attacking a teenager who was stabbed to death outside a Birmingham college....
Sep 17 2007
THOUSANDS of women ran, jogged, walked and even wheeled their way round Birmingham city centre in this year's Hydro Active women's challenge....
Sep 17 2007
POLICE have confiscated 15 tonnes of lead as part of a major crackdown on metal thefts in the Midlands....
Sep 17 2007
A BIRMINGHAM woman had "an extremely lucky escape" after a severe fire destroyed her bedroom in the early hours today....
Sep 17 2007
TONY Hancock fanatics descended on Birmingham to pay homage to the city's comedy hero who had made them laugh for more than 50 years....