Articles...
Feb 22 2008
MORE than 200 colleagues of a Wednesbury father held a two-minute silence after he lost a brave 12-month battle with cancer aged just 39. ...
Feb 22 2008
WHEN Phillip Collier the tailors first started trading half a century ago, the Birmingham shop sold more than 150 suits a week....
Feb 22 2008
RETIRED policemen are visiting Birmingham schools to tell children what it was like to be a copper in the days of Life On Mars....
Feb 22 2008
THE first awards ceremony of its kind is being held in Birmingham to recognise the achievements of Bangladeshis and their contribution to life in the city....
Feb 22 2008
CHILDREN at a Birmingham school were urged to go to class in fleeces and thermal jumpers in sub zero temperatures after a central heating breakdown. ...
Feb 22 2008
BLUES' fan Steven Knight will have his fingers crossed during tomorrow night's Oscar ceremony....
Feb 22 2008
KELLY Osbourne – daughter of Brum rock legend Ozzy – and Stella McCartney are set to lead a major fashion extravaganza to be staged in the city. ...
Feb 22 2008
A FORMER market trader has taken on a firm of city clampers...and won! Arnie Rosenberg was so infuriated when he had to pay Midway Parks £350 to release his car he took the case to court....
Feb 22 2008
THE BBC is moving its prestigious Sports Personality Awards away from Birmingham to Liverpool. ...
Feb 22 2008
VICE girl killer Steve Wright must spend the rest of his life in jail, a judge ruled today. Mr Justice Gross said: “This was a targeted campaign of murder.”...
Feb 22 2008
AN UNARMED West Midlands Police officer who was shot while on duty has been offered just £4,400 in compensation, it has been revealed....
Feb 22 2008
TWO men were arrested after a large amount of cannabis and drugs equipment was uncovered in a raid by police on a property in the Black Country....
Feb 22 2008
BUILDING work on Birmingham's £193 million library in Centenary Square will begin in November next year, it has been revealed. ...
Feb 22 2008
A FAMILY of three was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in a cold-blooded “execution” to satisfy a perverted sexual pleasure, a court was told....
Feb 22 2008
By Jonathan Walker...
Feb 22 2008
BUILDERS, gasfitters and other tradesmen have an “alarming” ignorance of the risks posed by asbestos, with 20 dying each week, a report revealed today....
Feb 22 2008
BUDDING authors from around the world have deluged a Birmingham publishing house with sackfuls of manuscripts....
Feb 22 2008
KIND-hearted Birmingham Mail readers are answering the call for more lollipop men and women....
Feb 22 2008
OPPORTUNIST car thieves are targeting motorists who leave their cars running on frosty mornings, police warned....
Feb 22 2008
BIRMINGHAM today moved a step closer to becoming an alcohol-restricted zone....
Feb 22 2008
THE grieving family of a teenage car crash victim have spoken of their frustration at a six day wait for his body to be released for burial....
Feb 22 2008
A FORMER Aston Villa player is facing the biggest challenge of his life as he waits to see if he can donate a kidney to his son....
Feb 22 2008
MAJOR work on a "distinctive" library roof have got under way....
Feb 22 2008
AN UNARMED West Midlands Police officer who was shot while on duty has been offered just £4,400 in compensation, it has been revealed....
Feb 22 2008
A BIRMINGHAM MP and a pensioner group today welcomed an inquiry into huge gas price increases....
Feb 22 2008
MUM-of-two Claire Elliot is a shadow of the woman she was after shedding a staggering EIGHT stone....
Feb 22 2008
HE was a familiar smiling face to thousands of revellers out for a night on Birmingham's Golden Mile. But sadly Khizhar Awayat will no longer be waving to legions of passers-by following his death from liver failure....
Feb 22 2008
AROUND 1,250 creditors owed cash following the collapse of MG Rover are to share a £40 million plus payout at last - more than three years after Longbridge closed....
Feb 22 2008
CAMPAIGNERS battling to have an old railway station reopened have been boosted with the backing of the landowners of the site....
Feb 22 2008
PUPILS swapped their school caps for hard hats as they welcomed the arrival of builders to transform their surroundings....
Feb 22 2008
MUMS and dads are set to the chance to kit out their children in next-to-new clothes as a charity puts on a sale in Stourport....
Feb 22 2008
GIL Merrick's illustrious Birmingham City and England footballing career featured many breathtaking catches....
Feb 22 2008
COUNCIL binmen have been threatened with privatisation if they walk out on strike again, union chiefs claimed today....
Feb 22 2008
A MUSIC teacher who kissed a young girl during a violin lesson had already had a "warning" after being arrested for alleged inappropriate behaviour six years ago, a court was told....
Feb 22 2008
A FOOTBALL-mad Birmingham man collapsed and died on the pitch just seconds after scoring a goal for his company team....
Feb 22 2008
FAMILY and friends paid an emotional tribute to a "brilliant" former Worcerstershire student who was crushed to death under a dustcart....
Feb 22 2008
A RESIDENT at a care home went missing for two hours before being found lying in a pile of rubbish in only her pants, a disciplinary hearing was told....
Feb 22 2008
THE 50th anniversary of the death of Duncan Edwards - the Flower of the Black Country - was commemorated in an emotional thanksgiving service....
Feb 22 2008
BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons has been dragged into the row over plans to downgrade the broadcaster's Birmingham presence....
Feb 22 2008
A BIRMINGHAM schoolgirl has been acclaimed by the Prime Minister as a Climate Change Champion after "shellshocking" judges with her stark vision of the planet's future....
Feb 22 2008
THE Crufts show coming to Birmingham next month was today accused of becoming too theatrical and influenced by the USA - with pets displayed like "Hollywood starlets"....
