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Jan 17 2008
PASSENGERS escaped unharmed today after a British Airways jet crash landed at Heathrow Airport...
Jan 17 2008
THOUSANDS of drivers faced rush hour misery today after a lorry suffered a blow out and caught fire on the M6 near Great Barr leading to huge jams....
Jan 17 2008
REPRESENTATIVES of people and organisations who pay non-domestic rates in Sandwell are being offered the chance to have their say on the borough council's spending plans for the next financial year....
Jan 17 2008
GRIEVING mother Tina Walker feared she was plagued by tragedy when her daughter was left fighting for life while giving birth, only months after her son was killed in a car crash....
Jan 17 2008
POLICE are hunting three men after an armed robbery at a bank in Castle Bromwich....
Jan 17 2008
A FATHER and son have been arrested for allegedly operating an illegal distillery in the Black Country - using animal feed instead of grain....
Jan 17 2008
HOME Secretary Jacqui Smith will today outline the Government's strategy to tackle radicalisation among Britain's Muslims....
Jan 17 2008
IT'S a bit like Big Brother 1940s style, but one Birmingham schoolboy says his time as a wartime evacuee on a TV reality show has been a life changing experience....
Jan 17 2008
THE Minister for the West Midlands has been accused of ignoring the region's MPs, in a lively House of Commons debate - which he failed to attend....
Jan 17 2008
POLICE are still looking for witnesses after a man was shot in the leg in Smethwick....
Jan 17 2008
A FAMILY escaped serious injury when a fire broke out in their Birmingham home....
Jan 17 2008
TEENAGERS could be priced out of keeping fit after city councillors backed a raft of inflation-busting price rises at gyms, it was claimed today....
Jan 17 2008
A HOTEL in Birmingham has been voted one of the 10 dirtiest in the country....
Jan 17 2008
A STARK warning about heart attacks spurred super slimmer Kim Potter into the diet which saved her life....
Jan 17 2008
THOUSANDS of drivers faced rush hour misery today after a lorry suffered a blow out and caught fire on the M6 near Great Barr leading to huge jams....
Jan 17 2008
PARTS of the Midlands remained on high alert today as deluges threatened to cause more flooding misery....
Jan 17 2008
BIRMINGHAM music legend Roy Wood is set to be awarded an honorary degree tomorrow ....
Jan 17 2008
THE 'Mr Bigs' behind a plot to flood the West Midlands with millions of pounds of lethal drugs are being hunted by detectives....
Jan 17 2008
HEALTH and safety experts have hit out at fire chiefs over the deaths of four crew in a warehouse inferno. ...
Jan 17 2008
TEENAGERS got to grips with all aspects of fire fighting and rescue when they visited Brierley Hill....
Jan 17 2008
A SICKNESS bug has returned to Sandwell Hospital - just six weeks after dozens of patients and staff were struck down....
Jan 17 2008
A MAJOR annual bonfire and fireworks display which provide enjoyment for thousands of people, could be scrapped....
Jan 17 2008
A MAN was warned by a court he could face jail after admitting being caught in possession of over 1,600 pornographic photographs of children....
Jan 17 2008
TWO masked men burst into a petrol station in the Black Country and attacked and tied up a cashier before making off with cigarettes and cash....
Jan 17 2008
COUNCIL bosses in Walsall have re-issued an appeal for old photos to help with a planned £1.1 million restoration of historic buildings....
Jan 17 2008
THE final curtain has come down on an Sandwell entertainment venue after protesters failed in an 11th-hour plea....
Jan 17 2008
A MAJOR clean-up operation was under way at a famous Black Country pub today after fly-tippers caused a brook to flood....
Jan 17 2008
DETECTIVES were today stepping up their hunt for gunmen who opened fire on a house in the Black Country....
Jan 17 2008
GREAT Barr's 24-hour Asda has applied to build a 2,000 sq metre mezzanine floor with a 135-space deck car park....
Jan 17 2008
A TEENAGER was threatened in a Dudley street and robbed of his mobile phone....
Jan 17 2008
AMBITIOUS plans for a pioneering multi-million pound social care, health and leisure facility in Sandwell have taken a major step forward....
Jan 17 2008
TWO men were injured and nine people arrested after a brawl broke out in a Walsall street....
Jan 17 2008
A SANDWELL attraction is due to close for two weeks for essential building work....
Jan 17 2008
THE Bishop of Birmingham today criticised proposals to allow the transplant of organs from people who have never signed a donor card....
