Articles...
Mar 12 2008
Motorists hit by soaring fuel prices were this afternoon handed a boost after Chancellor Alistair Darling put off a 2p rise until October. But drinkers have been hit hard with tax rises of six per cent above the rate of inflation....
Mar 12 2008
A TEENAGER was today fighting for life and two other people were seriously injured after a stolen car smashed head-on into a taxi....
Mar 12 2008
A DEAF young woman with learning difficulties has been failed by Birmingham City Council, according to a Government watchdog....
Mar 12 2008
RACING at Cheltenham was cancelled today due to severe weather conditions....
Mar 12 2008
ONE of the major carriers at Birmingham International Airport called for the break-up of the BAA after the airport operator announced a new price formula which will lead to fare increases at Heathrow and Gatwick....
Mar 12 2008
A "MISGUIDED" email sent by a senior doctor at Birmingham Children's Hospital led to police raiding his home and seizing his computer which was found to contain child pornography, a court heard....
Mar 12 2008
OFFICIALS at Birmingham's NEC were defiantly optimistic today as another exhibition announced it was switching to London....
Mar 12 2008
CITY transport chiefs have a tough decision to make over the future of the controversial Stratford Road red route, a councillor said.
Also see our picture gallery on the controversial scheme....
Mar 12 2008
WHEN the gates at MG Rover’s Longbridge plant closed, hundreds of mechanics, production workers and engineers were left searching for work....
Mar 12 2008
A MAJOR £200,000 facelift of a beauty spot's museum has finally been completed....
Mar 12 2008
YOUNGSTERS across Staffordshire are celebrating after achieving above average Key Stage 3 results....
Mar 12 2008
SCHOOL run mums are causing chaos by parking dangerously outside a new school....
Mar 12 2008
TRADERS in Worcestershire have duped dozens of shoppers into buying rings that do not contain any precious metal....
Mar 12 2008
A NEW police station will be built in Birmingham despite protests from residents that it is 'not green enough'....
Mar 12 2008
A WOMAN who lives two miles away from the Birmingham hospital where she had her first child has been told that she cannot have her twins there....
Mar 12 2008
CHILDREN at an inner city primary school in Birmingham are to feature in a controversial television series about what it means to be white and working class in Britain today....
Mar 12 2008
A MIDLAND businessman sent his wife a letter sacking her as an employee from his Alcester firm after their marriage collapsed, an industrial tribunal heard....
Mar 12 2008
TRANSPORT improvements will only come to the West Midlands if civic leaders make quick decisions and remain united, the Minister for the region has warned....
Mar 12 2008
GOVERNMENT minister Hazel Blears is backing a plan to give Sutton Coldfield its own powerful town council....
Mar 12 2008
A DANGEROUS road crossing where a 14-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull should be upgraded immediately, safety campaigners insisted today....
Mar 12 2008
FAMILIES are being urged to be on their guard against a conman posing as a water board official....
Mar 12 2008
A WOMAN today appealed for help to find her cherished wedding and engagement rings that went missing from a Birmingham college....
Mar 12 2008
PROSTATE cancer patients' chances of life and death across the Midlands are being dramatically affected by a postcode lottery, new figures reveal....
Mar 12 2008
THE manager of a Birmingham boys' football team has been cleared of any wrongdoing at a disciplinary hearing into alleged confrontations at a Sunday league game....
Mar 12 2008
A SICKNESS bug has swept through three Midland hospitals leading to the closure of five wards and visiting hours being cancelled....
Mar 12 2008
WOULD-BE chef Matthew Coley may be only the tender age of nine but he already knows what's cooking for when he is older....
Mar 12 2008
PUPILS in Birmingham today gave a cautious welcome to calls for all school leavers to be encouraged to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen....
Mar 12 2008
THREE men who carried out a huge number of burglaries across north Birmingham have been jailed for four-and-a-half years....
