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Jan 31 2008
THE Home Secretary denied today that the younger generation was “going to the dogs”, saying that a bigger problem was the way people reacted to violent crime....
Jan 31 2008
A FOOD business employing 125 people in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter is to shut – because the area is becoming more residential....
Jan 31 2008
BIRMINGHAM council taxpayers are paying 823 staff more than £50,000 per year - the largest number of high-earning middle managers of any authority in the country....
Jan 31 2008
A DRIVER suffered serious head injuries after his car overturned in Birmingham. ...
Jan 31 2008
BRITISH television stars have paid tribute to Jeremy Beadle, the country's most famous practical joker, who has died at the age of 59....
Jan 31 2008
BIRMINGHAM has been named as the third worst place in the country for TV licence dodgers....
Jan 31 2008
CHUHAR Singh has had a few shocks from sky-high gas bills - but none stunned him as much as the one which declared him dead....
Jan 31 2008
TELECOM bosses today admitted getting their wires crossed after giving a 138-year-old Birmingham firm a Wolverhampton phone number....
Jan 31 2008
A CLIENT at a house being used as a brothel in Birmingham has told of his shock when the premises was raided by police....
Jan 31 2008
COUNCIL house tenants in Birmingham will enjoy a rent-free Christmas and New Year after being granted a two-week payment holiday....
Jan 31 2008
THE right-hand man to Birmingham's Lord Mayors for nearly 20 years has died after losing a short battle with cancer....
Jan 31 2008
FAMILIES in Worcestershire are set to get a glimpse of elusive fallow deer as Worcestershire's top wildlife experts host expeditions in the county's woodlands....
Jan 31 2008
MORE fun has been injected into learning at a village pre-school. ...
Jan 31 2008
SOLIHULL MP Lorely Burt has lined up to honour the victims of the Nazi Holocaust....
Jan 31 2008
AN anti-harassment policy has been introduced by Sandwell Homes to protect residents with the worst culprits facing eviction....
Jan 31 2008
PARENTS and pupils at a Kings Norton school are furious that city councillors may scrap plans for an academy....
Jan 31 2008
DESIGNATED graffiti zones are to be set up in a bid to combat the menace of unrestricted spray painting on Birmingham's streets....
Jan 31 2008
COUNCIL bosses today vowed to review crazy charges such as £211 to change a lightbulb....
Jan 31 2008
A DRIVER suffered serious head injuries after his car hit a tree and over-turned on a Birmingham street....
Jan 31 2008
POLICE have provoked fury after a dead cyclist's family asked for his bike to be returned - only to find that cops had already auctioned it off....
Jan 31 2008
THE Midlands was being battered by gale force winds and heavy rain today - and there's snow on the way....
Jan 31 2008
THE number of eastern European prostitutes on the streets of Birmingham is set to soar, sex health bosses warned today....
Jan 31 2008
A TERRORIST training manual found in the home of one of the men accused of being in a plot to send equipment to terror groups in Pakistan contained details of bomb-making, booby-traps and poisons, a court heard....
Jan 31 2008
OFFICIALS in the Black Country are hoping the return of a television advertising campaign will urge more people to recycle glass bottles and jars. The "Recycle Now" glass recycling ads, which encourage families to make recycling an everyday habit, are being shown until February 10....
Jan 31 2008
CAMPAIGNERS in a Staffordshire village are fighting plans to close their historic pub as it prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary....
Jan 31 2008
A NEW Worcestershire housing chief today promised to provide high quality affordable homes to people trying to get on the housing ladder....
Jan 31 2008
A PAIR of epic ocean rowers today threw down the gauntlet to runners across the city by vowing to set the race record in the Birmingham Mail 5K Fun Run. David Lynes, from Redditch, and 23-year-old team-mate Steve Redgewell, from Evesham, will join hundreds of runners at the start line at Villa Park on April 27 in aid of of Macmillan Cancer Support and the Birmingham Mail Charity Trust....
Jan 31 2008
YOUNG people in Worcestershire are being urged to hit the polls today to cast a vote in the Youth Cabinet and UK Youth Parliament elections....
Jan 31 2008
YOUNGSTERS will be able to learn some hip moves at a new street dance course....
Jan 31 2008
A SCHOOL for autistic children pioneered by two mums has opened its doors....
Jan 31 2008
ANGRY parents and children waving placards and banners protested out-side a century-old Black Country library in a last-ditch bid to save it from the axe....
Jan 31 2008
DOZENS of visitors took the opportunity to see detailed plans for a new multi-million pound hospital on the Sand-well and Birmingham border....
Jan 31 2008
A SUPER seven local heroes have been recognised in Good Citizens Awards....
Jan 31 2008
A MOTHER-of-three is set to go on trial - for throwing an apple core from her car window....
Jan 31 2008
A 45-YEAR-OLD man who engaged in sexual activity with a schoolgirl has been warned he faces time behind bars....
Jan 31 2008
FAMILIES of residents at a Birmingham nursing home today vowed to fight a council ban that could see it shut down for good - claiming it was the victim of a local authority "witch hunt."...
Jan 31 2008
BIRMINGHAM binmen have been offered an £8,000 take it or leave it deal in bid to head off damaging strike action....
Jan 31 2008
POLICE probing a suspected break-in at a house in Birmingham discovered a cannabis factory, a court heard....
Jan 31 2008
STUDENT midwife Tammy Martin is the first person to be "delivered" a grand in the return of the Birmingham Mail's Money Mania competition....
Jan 31 2008
BIRMINGHAM council taxpayers are paying 823 staff more than £50,000 per year - the largest number of high-earning middle managers of any authority in the country....
Jan 31 2008
YOUR Birmingham Mail is proud to take the wraps off its new website - offering all the latest news, sport, features and much, much more....
Jan 31 2008
AN ILLEGAL immigrant with HIV who used a false passport to obtain work has been spared jail. ...
Jan 31 2008
TELEVISION viewers are in for a blast from the past when Birmingham-based show Gladiators returns to our screens - thanks to the US writers' strike....
Jan 31 2008
A SIMPLE test developed in the Midlands to identify and help young pupils struggling with numeracy has sparked national interest....
Jan 31 2008
A ROBBER who pelted a cash guard with beer cans before stealing £13,000 has been jailed for four years....
Jan 31 2008
A FATHER who had a £1,000 a day drug habit was jailed for six months by a court after he fiddled more than £20,000 in incapacity benefit while working for a double-glazing firm....
Jan 31 2008
AS part of the brand new Birminghammail.net website, we will be launching a series of blogs over the coming days....
Jan 31 2008
FIRMS throughout the West Midlands have "misplaced confidence" about the future at a time of widespread economic uncertainty, a survey reveals....
