THIS was the moment a supermarket worker had a gun held to his head by a gang of armed robbers in a Birmingham hold-up. See the shocking cctv footage.Read
DANIEL Day-Lewis took the best actor prize at the Baftas, but Britain’s leading ladies were left empty-handed as a little-known French actress stole the limelight.Read
FOUR people fled their homes in their nightclothes today after a Land Rover ploughed into a Birmingham Indian restaurant below and burst into flames.Read
TRAFFIC calming measures on the M42 which cost £40 million could be redundant if plans for a new motorway service station in Solihull get the go-ahead, safety experts and campaigners claimed.Read
AMBUSHED, bricked, spat at, threatened and abused. That's the response firefighters are regularly faced with when turning up to emergencies across the West Midlands, according to a new survey out today.Read
SPY planes flying over Afghanistan have allegedly picked up Taliban fighters speaking in West Midland accents as they plotted terrorist operations.Read
A FORMER housing officer who returned to live in Birmingham has found his family home boarded up by the city council after it lay empty for more than a decade.Read
THE Government body which decides how public money should be used to develop the West Midlands spent nearly £118,000 of taxpayers' money on a one-day conference.Read
A COMMUNITY leader was so sick of graffiti in his Birmingham neighbourhood he created a calendar of "hot spots" to shame the city council into cleaning it up.Read
DETECTIVES hunting a man over the attempted murder of a defenceless pensioner in his Birmingham home today named Romanian Valentin Stirbei as a prime suspect.Read
