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Oct 9 2007
A MIDLAND police officer spent years pocketing backhanders for passing confidential information to a private detective agency run by a couple of former colleagues, a court heard....
Oct 9 2007
A TENNIS coach has told a court how she shared a bed with a 13-year-old pupil....
Oct 9 2007
A DELEGATION of workers from Cadbury's in Birmingham travelled to Bristol today for talks with bosses over plans that could see the loss of up to 700 jobs....
Oct 9 2007
A "JEALOUS'' restaurant worker who brutally killed his wife and then hid her body has been jailed for life....
Oct 9 2007
A REWARD was put up by police today as they sought to find their 'prime suspect' in connection with the horrific killing of a Midland teenager....
Oct 9 2007
A SEVERELY-ill patient on a strict 'soft food diet' choked to death at a Birmingham hospital after nurses gave him toast....
Oct 9 2007
PROUD Tamworth residents are backing their girls to do the town proud in the final of this year's X Factor....
Oct 9 2007
THE proud husband of Midland X Factor finalist Niki Evans says the family is living in a "whirlwind" after the crooner moved one step closer to her dream of pop stardom....
Oct 9 2007
COMMUTERS were today reassured that £236 million of Government cash to transform the face of New Street station is still in the pipeline....
Oct 9 2007
CHILDREN at a city school are beaming with pride after being the first in the city to have solar panels fitted on the roof....
Oct 9 2007
BIRMINGHAM-born rocker Ozzy Osbourne is having a clear-out....
Oct 9 2007
A JEALOUS husband was facing a life sentence today after being found guilty of murdering his wife....
Oct 9 2007
A TOP tennis coach accused of having a lesbian relationship with a 13-year-old pupil told police "I like men"....
Oct 9 2007
THREE teenagers have been charged following a vicious attack on a horse....
Oct 9 2007
A DECISION to ban men from becoming Labour's general election candidate for Ladywood was today condemned by a senior figure in the Birmingham party....
Oct 9 2007
BIRMINGHAM'S top gay nightclub has been told it can stay open after allegations of noise nuisance were rejected....
Oct 9 2007
POLICE in the West Midlands have been given top marks in a school report-style evaluation of the state of national policing....
Oct 9 2007
A MUM who lost a son to the scourge of gun crime is pinning her hopes a new anti-gun movie will help save a generation of youngsters....
Oct 9 2007
SEVERN Trent Water is quitting Birmingham for Coventry, with more than 1,700 on the move....
Oct 9 2007
WHEN Jo Ravenscroft had a lump removed to save her life from breast cancer, the last thing she imagined was ever regaining enough confidence to be a catwalk model....
Oct 9 2007
A SECURITY man has spoken of the moment he saw a man pull a gun in a city centre robbery seconds before a passer-by was shot dead....
Oct 9 2007
MEDIA watchdog Ofcom has ruled that a competition run by a Birmingham radio station in which listeners were given the chance to win a trip to Athens was unfair....
