Articles...
Jan 30 2008
A SEARCH of the Birmingham house of an Islamist fanatic who plotted to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier found a range of material on al Qaida and anti-western propaganda, a court heard today....
Jan 30 2008
UNION leaders were meeting with Birmingham City Council chiefs today in a bid to avert a threatened strike in a row over how workers' pay bands are being restructured....
Jan 30 2008
INFECTION rates on wards across the Midlands are being driven down, new figures reveal today....
Jan 30 2008
A TERRIFIED couple were held at knifepoint and robbed of hundreds of pounds by masked raiders....
Jan 30 2008
NINE young Eastern European women were working voluntarily at a suspected brothel in Birmingham....
Jan 30 2008
A MAN was today starting a life sentence for murdering his pregnant teenage girlfriend....
Jan 30 2008
A HOUSEWIFE who left her husband blind and deaf by poisoning him with anti-freeze has been found guilty of attempted murder....
Jan 30 2008
A MAN had to be hosed down by firemen after he doused himself with petrol following a domestic incident at his home....
Jan 30 2008
THE DIOCESE of Lichfield today announced it is to consider licensing stonemasons after an investigation into a "high failure" of memorials in a churchyard near Dudley....
Jan 30 2008
HISTORIAN and raconteur John Sparry has recalled the day when the wife of the notorious murderer Dr Crippen appeared in Dudley....
Jan 30 2008
TWO drunken thugs who launched a savage attack on a "wholly innocent" man in the street leaving him with a fractured cheekbone and nose have been spared a prison sentence....
Jan 30 2008
PUPILS, staff and relatives paid sad tribute today to a tragic five-year-old boy who died at the hands of his suicidal mother....
Jan 30 2008
A PLAN to build the biggest motorway sign in Europe has been approved by Walsall planners despite safety fears voiced by the Highways Agency and drivers' representatives....
Jan 30 2008
THE foundation stone of a £7.5 million primary school and children's centre is set to be laid next week....
Jan 30 2008
RUNAWAY Red Panda Babu is giving up his wandering ways for a chance of true love at a new far-off location....
Jan 30 2008
PEDALLING pensioner Jack Bailey shrugged off the threat of cancer to cycle coast to coast on a bike almost as old as himself....
Jan 30 2008
A BUG planted by MI5 security service agents in the home of a Birmingham man helped expose a city-run terror cell which aimed to spread panic around the nation....
Jan 30 2008
MOBILE phone users could hold clues to a mass brawl between bikers in Birmingham airport which left one fighting for his life....
Jan 30 2008
MOVES to turn three West Midlands prisons into the second largest jail in Britain were today put on hold after a public backlash over its name....
Jan 30 2008
PENSIONERS in the West Midlands are being urged to travel the length and breadth of the UK - completely free of charge....
Jan 30 2008
A DENTAL nurse who made national headlines when her ponytail was hacked off by an abusive boyfriend has been ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a high street bank after cashing a fraudulent cheque....
Jan 30 2008
YOU may not have heard of him yet, but Birmingham author R.J. Ellory is about to hit the literary big time....
Jan 30 2008
A "PERFECTLY ordinary" semi detached suburban property in Birmingham was a brothel with a steady flow of clients, a court heard....
Jan 30 2008
TV BOSSES have revealed the Birmingham-based hit show Gladiators is to make a comeback - but it won't be filmed in the city....
Jan 30 2008
A FORMER Midland MP expelled from the Tory party in the Commons over payments to his son from parliamentary allowances was awaiting news of a possible police inquiry and fresh sleaze investigation today....
Jan 30 2008
GENEROUS wellwishers have helped bring in a staggering £13,200 for cancer patients through the Tree Of Thought appeal....
Jan 30 2008
GENEROUS Midlanders have brought in a staggering £13,200 for cancer patients through the Tree Of Thought appeal....
Jan 30 2008
GETTING free travel for the over-60s in Dudley has never been easier thanks to a new application service being launched by Centro-WMPTA and Age Concern Dudley....
Jan 30 2008
VOLUNTEERS who spent years tirelessly restoring an historic canal through the Midlands have gathered to see new work being carried out....
Jan 30 2008
A HOUSING company site manager has scooped a major industry award for building the best quality new homes in Britain....
Jan 30 2008
LIBRARIES throughout Staffordshire have joined a national campaign to warn parents of the hidden dangers of salt levels in children's food....
Jan 30 2008
A SEAFOOD chef is to treat his customers to a one-off menu after his pub was crowned seafood venue of the year....
Jan 30 2008
SOLIHULL MP Lorely Burt put her political allegiances to one side as she threw her weight behind a campaign aimed at raising awareness of cervical cancer....
Jan 30 2008
POLICE in Staffordshire are cracking down on drivers who use illegal number plates to thwart speed cameras....
Jan 30 2008
MOTORISTS driving with illegal number plates face a £1,000 fine if they are caught in Worcestershire, police have warned....
Jan 30 2008
BROKEN televisions, old computer monitors and smashed glasses are set to solve Worcestershire's flooding problems thanks to a new invention by two pioneers....
Jan 30 2008
A LIFELINE service for the elderly and infirm is launching a new telephone system in a bid to make it easier for customers to get in touch....
Jan 30 2008
BIRMINGHAM'S boozers are battling it out in a bid to win new industry 'Oscars' launched today....
Jan 30 2008
FIREFIGHTERS today warned youths about the potentially-deadly consequences of playing with fire after yobs pushed lit paper through the letterbox of a Birmingham home....
Jan 30 2008
SUPERMARKET bosses in Birmingham today vowed they would not be forced out without a battle....
Jan 30 2008
A FORMER assistant bursar at a private school in Solihull stole thousands of pounds she had been handed by pupils' parents, a court heard....
Jan 30 2008
FOUR young men were injured when a car crashed and flipped on to its roof....
Jan 30 2008
COMMUTERS travelling to Solihull and Shirley have been warned of major disruption next month as a £75 million rail upgrade begins....
Jan 30 2008
A CHARITY helping disabled people is facing closure because of a cash crisis....
Jan 30 2008
A WOULD-be politician has backed a campaign calling on residents to check their smoke alarm....
Jan 30 2008
SOLIHULL Council bosses are celebrating after a major firm relocated to a borough business park....
Jan 30 2008
VULNERABLE householders were warned today to be on their guard for a bogus worker....
Jan 30 2008
AN INTERNATIONAL consultancy firm has won the contract to rede-sign Sutton Coldfield's ailing town centre....
Jan 30 2008
BORN six weeks prematurely, little Wyatt Millward is the miracle baby his Solihull mum feared she may never have....
