A MAN who used a concrete block to smash his way into a shop in Birmingham before stuffing his pockets full of designer sun glasses worth over £4,000 was jailed for two and a half years.Read
RESIDENTS furious at plans for a secure mental health unit near their homes have invited Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Birmingham to see the area for himself.Read
UP TO 7,600 jobless in the West Midlands will be ordered to accept voluntary work or lose their benefits under hard-hitting Tory proposals unveiled today.Read
CHILDHOOD friends of Adnan Ghalib, the new Brummie boyfriend of troubled Britney Spears, today spoke of their surprise that he had "pulled a pop star".Read
A GRANDMOTHER who was found strangled in her wheelchair at a private Birmingham nursing home was seen sleeping for long periods just before she died, an inquest jury heard.Read
