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Jan 23 2008
LEISURE chiefs were today counting the cost of a fire which destroyed Walsall Council's only sauna facility....
Jan 23 2008
TWO men were arrested today by detectives investigating a hotel fire which killed three people, including a mother and son from Staffordshire....
Jan 23 2008
NETWORK Rail will today be forced to answer questions before MPs about the disruption to its services in Birmingham over the New Year period....
Jan 23 2008
Three Worcestershire prisons - HMPs Blakenhurst, Brockhill and Hewell Grange - are to merge in a move to save money and improve “efficiency and effectiveness”....
Jan 23 2008
The owner of Aston Villa football club, Randy Lerner, has given £5 million to the National Portrait Gallery, the institution’s largest single donation to date....
Jan 23 2008
NANJING gave a cast-iron guarantee to Birmingham's council leader that full-scale production at Longbridge would launch by the end of March, it emerged today....
Jan 23 2008
BIRMINGHAM pupils gave Government plans to introduce compulsory cooking lessons in schools the big thumbs-up....
Jan 23 2008
A SICKNESS bug has closed another ward at Sandwell Hospital, it was revealed today....
Jan 23 2008
MOTORISTS using car parks in Birmingham city centre will have to pay more from next month....
Jan 23 2008
FUNDING for flood defences in the West Midlands could be cut by £5 million, it emerged today, as householders in Worcestershire remain on alert for rising waters....
Jan 23 2008
A BIRMINGHAM record producer has made a ground-breaking album in a bid to dispel the stereotype that Muslims are involved in terrorism....
Jan 23 2008
MERIDEN MP Caroline Spelman has demanded a new probe into the death of a dad who suffered a heart attack after being given the wrong drug at a Birmingham hospital....
Jan 23 2008
GOLDEN hearted fishmonger Dave McLean is inspiring an entire Birmingham community to help youngsters struggling in poverty on the other side of the world....
Jan 23 2008
OLD cardboard boxes are being put to good use by artistic Birmingham schoolchildren....
Jan 23 2008
BROKEBACK Mountain actor Heath Ledger was found dead with sleeping pills near his naked body in his New York apartment....
Jan 23 2008
HEATH Ledger will be seen in the latest Batman epic this summer - a role tipped to cement his status in Hollywood but which will now be his epitaph....
Jan 23 2008
THIEVES have stolen hundreds of pounds in cash that an elderly cancer patient, from Bordesley Green, given just months to live had set aside for his funeral....
Jan 23 2008
A MAN who caught a burglar who had broken into his flat was encouraged to stab him by a shouting mob to stab him, Birmingham Crown Court heard....
Jan 23 2008
A Northfield mother-of-five plundered almost £5,000 from an account belonging to her war veteran grandfather and then "frittered it away," a court heard....
Jan 23 2008
A DAD-of-two shot dead outside a Birmingham pub had been targeted by gunmen before, it emerged today....
Jan 23 2008
BIRMINGHAM patients who face going blind from a severe eye condition are being offered fresh hope of getting a sight-saving drug on the NHS....
Jan 23 2008
A WOMAN from Botswana was subjected to a horrifying ordeal when she was gang-raped after being invited to a party in Birmingham, the City's Crown Court was told....
Jan 23 2008
MORE than 1,700 West Midlands police officers were today en route to London to join a mass national protest over pay....
