Articles...
Mar 7 2008
A DOCTOR has appeared before a Crown Court judge accused of killing a Staffordshire patient with an injection of adrenaline almost 10 years ago....
Mar 7 2008
A NEW Worcestershire prison will be called HMP Hewell, not HMP Redditch as previously planned, it has been announced....
Mar 7 2008
A REDDITCH man who raped an 81-year-old woman has been given an indeterminate sentence for public protection....
Mar 7 2008
THOUSANDS of school children will be helped safely across busy roads thanks to Birmingham Mail readers who answered an SOS plea to become lollipop men and women....
Mar 7 2008
BENNY is to make a comeback - in the legendary shoes of Birmingham's best-known comedian Tony Hancock. Paul Henry, the actor behind the loveable simpleton who became a Crossroads star, will be in the spotlight again as tortured genius Hancock....
Mar 7 2008
BRITAIN'S best selling female artist, Birmingham's Sue Howells, is putting her heart and soul into a project she hopes will benefit thousands of heart disease sufferers. Sue has created a unique painting to raise more than £10,000 for the charity Heart Research UK Midlands....
Mar 7 2008
FAMILIES who refused to let their Birmingham estate slide into a no-go zone ruled by pimps and prostitutes won a pat on the back from the Government's Respect Tsar Louise Casey....
Mar 7 2008
A NIGERIAN mother-of-two who has been fighting to stay in Birmingham has been deported, her campaigners fear....
Mar 7 2008
SPEED cameras are to be installed on an accident blackspot which has claimed six lives in six years....
Mar 7 2008
FORMER world kick boxing champion Kash Gill has finally achieved his lifelong dream of setting up his own gym to unite people from all communities in a love of fitness and sport....
Mar 7 2008
SUPER slimmer Karen Lowe of West Bromwich is a shadow of her former self after shedding almost eight stone - but she isn't stopping there....
Mar 7 2008
WHEN former RAF navigator Ronnie Morgan of Birmingham was jailed at the notorious German camp featured in the Great Escape he was more than a little teed off....
Mar 7 2008
A HUSBAND has described the moment his Birmingham family's sunshine holiday turned to tragedy when he lost control of a 4x4 and ploughed in to rocks, killing his wife....
Mar 7 2008
SURVIVING footage of Enoch Powell's controversial "rivers of blood" speech in Birmingham is to be broadcast again in a major BBC documentary tonight....
Mar 7 2008
IT'S 600 miles away and a world apart - so why are families deserting Birmingham for the Orkneys?...
Mar 7 2008
BUNGLING burglars were left looking like dummies when they broke into a city showhome to steal a TV and computer....
Mar 7 2008
PARENTS at a troubled Birmingham primary school have taken the unprecedented step of calling on Government inspectors to declare it as "failing"....
Mar 7 2008
A MOTHER-of-five has come to the rescue of Kidderminster's annual carnival in a bid to revive the flagging parade....
Mar 7 2008
A BIRMINGHAM pub landlord held at gunpoint by a masked gang today sent his attackers a defiant message: "You'll never drive me out"....
Mar 7 2008
A BOY of four was rescued by Birmingham firefighters after getting his head stuck in a headboard in a bedroom....
Mar 7 2008
GARDENERS planning to spruce up their gardens and use new Solihull Council wheelie bins will have to prune their enthusiasm now the brakes have been put on the scheme....
Mar 7 2008
WORK is literally like a game for Nadine Gianfagna of Birmingham Children's Hospital.....
Mar 7 2008
PLANS for a multi-million pound hotel shaped like a ski slope in the middle of Tamworth have been given the go-ahead....
Mar 7 2008
A WOMAN who dodged bullets while serving with the military has joined West Midlands Police as the country's first full-time female chaplain....
Mar 7 2008
DETAILS of the precise costs of the £11 million Rover inquiry, and why it has taken so long, have been demanded by MPs....
Mar 7 2008
SEVEN war heroes from the Midlands' Mercian Regiment were today being honoured for risking their lives serving their country in Afghanistan....
Mar 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM is bracing itself for severe gales set to batter the city on Sunday night and Monday morning....
Mar 7 2008
ARCHITECTS behind a new sheltered housing complex for the elderly in Birmingham have been sent back to the drawing board by council planners....
Mar 7 2008
DOG lovers and their pampered pets got this year's biggest ever Crufts under way as a betting controversy threatened to overshadow the opening....
Mar 7 2008
EIGHTIES heart-throb turned theatre producer Paul Nicholas is looking to Birmingham in the hope of finding the next Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom or Jude Law....
Mar 7 2008
IT'S almost Christmas 2009 - and Bob Warman is reading the regional headlines from ITV's Birmingham studios....
Mar 7 2008
ITV'S predicament became all too clear when it announced its financial results this week....
Mar 7 2008
MEDICS at Birmingham's City Hospital have helped save the lives of two poisoned Iraqi families....
Mar 7 2008
MORE than two dozen men have been charged over violent clashes between fans and police following the Blues v Villa second city derby....
Mar 7 2008
PARALYMPIANS Paul Shaw and Claire Cashmore are going for gold in Beijing....
Mar 7 2008
MORE than £500,000 worth of fake computer games, DVD and CDs have been seized in a raid at a car boot sale....
Mar 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM'S historic Great Western Arcade is in line for a 21st century facelift of up to £1 million, restoring it to its Victorian glory....
Mar 7 2008
MOBILE phone "fat cats" were condemned in the House of Commons when Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff urged Ministers to help customers who became victims of " dodgy business practices"....
Mar 7 2008
ICONIC film The Italian Job came to life when the world's only complete set of original replica Minis from the 1969 movie hit the streets of Birmingham....
Mar 7 2008
FORMER Blues star Paul Devlin has helped put the sparkle back into a listed Birmingham building....
