Nov
2007
Articles from 27th Nov 2007
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Severn Trent lose £18m from cost of summer floods
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM-based Severn Trent saw more than £18 million disappear down the drain in the summer floods - as 140,000 households lost their water supplies. Read
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Nearly 20 hurt as bus hits tree in Birmingham
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
NEARLY 20 passengers were hurt when a double decker bus ploughed into a tree on the Pershore Road South in Birmingham this afternoon. Read
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German market sinks Birmingham Council workers pay cut rally
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
PLANS for a massive demonstration by thousands of angry Birmingham council workers have been torpedoed - by the city's German market. Read
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Rookie 999 operator helps Birmingham mum give birth
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
NEW Birmingham mum Victoria McKenna owes the life of her newborn son to a rookie 999 operator who talked her through the birth and told her how to resuscitate the baby. Read
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Birmingham Mail readers call for an end to pub smoking ban
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Mail readers have voted in their hundreds to call on the Government to lift the controversial ban on smoking in public places. Read
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Agony of mother of Tamworth hit and run victim James Mason
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
THE devastated mother said of hit-and-run victim James Mason said the person who killed her son had also "destroyed" his family. Read
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Kaiser Chiefs: Birmingham NIA
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
The band may have started with Everything Is Average Nowadays, from latest album Yours Truly, Angry Mob, but this was no average gig. the NIA I wondered whether Amy Winehouse was back in town. Read
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Kaiser Chiefs meet Roy Wood before sell-out Birmingham gig
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
TOP ban the Kaiser Chiefs met Brummie musical hero Roy Wood before their sold-out show at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena. Read
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Doug Ellis is hailed a children's champ by NSPCC
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
FORMER Aston Villa chairman Doug Ellis has been recognised for his support of children's charity the NSPCC. Read
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Sana Ali stabbing was 'a revenge attack', court told
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
SOLIHULL student Harmohinder Sanghera was "in pursuit of revenge" when she plunged a kitchen knife into the stomach of pregnant love rival Sana Ali, a court heard. Read
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Drug dealers caught by customs are jailed for 18 years
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
TWO drug dealers from the Black Country have been jailed for a total of 18 years. Read
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Birmingham teacher caught driving while banned gets job warning
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
TEACHER Karim Noorani from Birmingham, who was caught driving to work while banned, has been told he could be suspended or struck off from the teaching profession if he commits any type of motoring offence in the next five years. Read
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Birmingham Council's £80m plan is 'gibberish'
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
AN £80 million consultancy scheme designed to transform the way Birmingham City Council manages and pays its 45,000 staff has been branded "gobbledegook". Read
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Birmingham Council divided in row over wheelie bins
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
A PLAN to introduce wheelie bins for rubbish collection in parts of Birmingham is in danger of splitting the city council's ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Read
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Birmingham policeman fined for knocking down pedestrian
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
A POLICE driver has been fined £300 after knocking down a student on a pedestrian crossing in Birmingham as he pursued another vehicle through a red light. Read
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Tributes paid to former Midland BBC journalist Lola Almudevar
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
ADRIAN Goldberg today paid tribute to former BBC WM colleague Lola Almudevar, who has been killed in a car crash in Bolivia at the age of 29. Read
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Gunman in bank raid at HSBC in Birmingham
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
AN ARMED robber escaped with a haul of cash after holding up the HSBC bank in Moseley. Read
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Countdown to the Light Up A Life ceremony at St Mary's Hospice in Birmingham
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
IN a decade since it was launched, the Light Up A Life ceremony at Birmingham's St Mary's Hospice has given comfort to thousands of people who have lost loved ones to serious illness. Read
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Judge who jailed the Birmingham Six dies
Nov 27 2007 | Top Stories
LORD Bridge of Harwich, the judge at the trial of the Birmingham Six who later conducted several inquiries into notable government security breaches, has died aged 90. Read
