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Feb 21 2008
LABOUR councillors have yet to decide whether they will cross city council picket lines for an annual budget meeting next Tuesday....
Feb 21 2008
BRITAIN'S first "blogging" MP has been put in charge of hundreds of Government websites – and one of his first decisions was to close most of them down....
Feb 21 2008
IMMIGRANTS will go on "probation" for up to five years before they can become full British citizens or permanent residents, Immigration Minister Liam Byrne has announced....
Feb 21 2008
DETECTIVES received a “significant number” of calls after a hotel fire which killed three Midland people was featured on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme....
Feb 21 2008
QUEEN of punk Dame Vivienne Westwood headed a glitzy get together in Birmingham where the issue of human rights, rather than fashion, took centre stage....
Feb 21 2008
A WEST Midlands MP who used to make her living writing wills has warned the industry attracts "the incompetent, the dishonest and the fly-by-night operator"....
Feb 21 2008
A WAITER who used his position at a Birmingham city centre restaurant to "skim" customers' credit cards for cloning has been jailed for 15 months....
Feb 21 2008
A GUIDE dog from Solihull has been immortalised on a special edition Royal Mail stamp....
Feb 21 2008
EXACTLY 44 years ago the Beatles had their first No.1 hit in the US, I Want to Hold Your Hand, displacing American singer Bobby Vincent's There! I've Said It Again....
Feb 21 2008
AFTER seven long years of battling cancer, supergran Angela Profit says nothing can stop her taking on the challenge of the Birmingham Mail 5k Fun Run....
Feb 21 2008
A 38-YEAR-OLD man was appearing in court today charged with causing death by dangerous driving....
Feb 21 2008
CRIMINALS in Redditch will have their details posted up in the town centre within seconds of committing an offence, West Mercia Police revealed today....
Feb 21 2008
BIRMINGHAM'S pubs, clubs and bookies have seen an 86 per cent reduction in air pollution since last July's smoking ban was introduced....
Feb 21 2008
A SOLIHULL McDonald's is back open for business after being forced to close when a pipe burst pumping raw sewage into the children's play area....
Feb 21 2008
A JOBLESS mother-of-eight who claims more than £300-a-week in benefits is demanding thousands of pounds should be spent on her latest council home....
Feb 21 2008
A TEENAGER has been jailed for more than four years for fondling a sleeping woman after breaking into her home in the dead of night....
Feb 21 2008
HUNDREDS of people were expected to pay their respects to Midland football legend Duncan Edwards at a thanksgiving service today....
Feb 21 2008
ACCLAIMED broadcaster and nature expert Sir David Attenborough crept into Birmingham to sign copies of his new book Life In Cold Blood....
Feb 21 2008
MPs and pensioners' groups in the West Midlands today joined forces to brand a fivefold increase in profits by British Gas as "disgusting, sick and obscene"....
Feb 21 2008
DETECTIVES investigating the brutal murder of a pensioner today made a new appeal for witnesses exactly a year since the attack....
Feb 21 2008
CALLS were made today for Walsall's £5 million bus station to be knocked down after the second serious smash in six months....
Feb 21 2008
Busby Babe Duncan Edwards died 50 years ago today, aged just 21. ROGER CLARKE gives his personal account of a sporting legend and the tragedy of Munich....
Feb 21 2008
TROUBLED singer Amy Winehouse is used to being identified as the villain of the piece, but could she be a true Villan?...
Feb 21 2008
CAMPAIGNERS will take to the city centre streets this Saturday in a last push to secure a referendum for the people of Birmingham on how the city is run. With the deadline to hand in the petition on elected mayors approaching, Neil Elkes takes a look back at the campaign....
Feb 21 2008
A CARE expert who raised the alarm on a Birmingham residential home where 27 people died in a year has described the "awful" state of residents....
Feb 21 2008
BIRMINGHAM'S new Olympics-standard gymnastics and martial arts centre started to grow this week - literally....
Feb 21 2008
STAGGERED school opening times and more local buses could be brought in to halt school run traffic congestion....
Feb 21 2008
STAFF treating a 14-month-old boy brought into a Birmingham hospital said bruises covering his body were the worst they had ever seen on a child....
Feb 21 2008
GRANDMOTHER Brenda Mann has been a lollipop lady for more than 40 years....
