Articles...
Mar 21 2008
HE MIGHT live more than 5,000 miles away, but Roy Chikanya is dedicated to his favourite football team - Birmingham City....
Mar 21 2008
A BIRMINGHAM actress is looking forward to making her West End debut after going from ’hosiery to Hollywood’ in the pursuit of success. Natasha Wood, aged 37, used to help out on her parents’ ladies underwear stall at the city’s Bull Ring Rag Market....
Mar 21 2008
BIRMINGHAM’S own Olympic hopefuls went ten rounds with Gordon Brown when they met the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. Khalid Yafai, aged 18, and Frankie Gavin, aged 22, are heading to China in August to represent Britain in the Olympic Games....
Mar 21 2008
A DECREASE in cases of TB in Birmingham was welcomed today by the Health Protection Agency....
Mar 21 2008
YOUNG offenders in Birmingham are helping disadvantaged people in Africa after repairing a Land Rover. The budding mechanics who attend a vehicle repair project run by Birmingham City Council’s Youth Offending Team in Hockley, spent more than two years restoring the off-roader to its former glory....
Mar 21 2008
BIRMINGHAM’S seven rundown and poorly attended municipal golf courses are to get new fairways, greens, paths and facilities under a new £850,000 improvement programme announced today. Council leisure boss Ray Hassall has stumped up the cash in a bid to bring the city’s under-used courses up to scratch....
Mar 21 2008
A TEAM of jobless young people are celebrating after clinching an award for transforming a vandal-hit city World War II memorial and cemetery. Two years ago, the unemployed five were struggling to find a vocation in life until they were given a helping hand from the Prince’s Trust, a charity set up by the Prince of Wales....
Mar 21 2008
THE Prime Minister has defended funding arrangements which divert money to Scotland and away from regions like the West Midlands. Gordon Brown claimed Scotland received the funding because it needed it more....
Mar 21 2008
TRADERS in a Birmingham suburb have joined forces with the city council in a bid to stop graffiti vandals from blighting their shops. Firms in Acocks Green have signed up to a scheme, which sees graffiti being scrubbed off windows, doors and metal shutters on shops and being replaced with a special anti-graffiti paint....
Mar 21 2008
AN IRISH county's colours were missing from Birmingham’s St Patrick’s Day Parade – because of clampers. The banner for County Cork was in the boot of a Honda Accord towed away as clamping firms preyed on festival-goers last weekend....
Mar 21 2008
A BIRMINGHAM firm has won approval for a new screen to protect minicab drivers from attack. The polycarbonate screen, made by Handsworth based Cab Safe, can now be installed in private hire vehicles, shielding drivers from troublemakers in the back, after winning the backing of city licensing chiefs....
Mar 21 2008
HUNDREDS of Birmingham children lined up to take on 1,500 metre records set by British athletics legends Steve Cram and Dame Kelly Holmes....
Mar 21 2008
SICK and vulnerable children across Birmingham were given a little cheer when they were delivered chocolate Easter eggs – thanks to shoppers and businesses....
Mar 21 2008
A BURKHA-wearing armed robber pushing a pram carried out a violent raid at a jewellers. The terrifying attack happened when the man, who police say was impersonating a mother browsing for gifts, entered Friends Jewellers in Cape Hill....
Mar 21 2008
POLICE have recovered a stolen van following a serious incident in Bloxwich in which PC Robin Haddock was seriously injured. ...
Mar 21 2008
A GUNMAN who shot dead a Birmingham man is thought to have lain in wait for him and opened fire as he tried to escape, it emerged today....
Mar 21 2008
A LISTED Midland mansion has been completely destroyed in a blaze, a fire and rescue service spokesman said....
Mar 21 2008
AN AVID Blues fan from South Yardley drowned in the sea off Tenerife after going abroad alone last year, an inquest has revealed....
Mar 21 2008
A MILITARY charity planning to open a respite home in Birmingham for injured soldiers today called on Brummies to donate £2 to help the appeal....
Mar 21 2008
Last week, Mail columnist Maureen Messent questioned whether there's real child poverty in Britain. Here Martin Narey, chief executive of the Barnardo's charity, makes his reply....
Mar 21 2008
PLANS to close one in six urban post offices have been defended by Labour MPs....
Mar 21 2008
A MOTHER-of-three abandoned a dog on a balcony for a week-and-a-half without food or water, Birmingham magistrates were told....
Mar 21 2008
PREPARATIONS are well under way for Sandwell's Saint George's Day celebrations with around 20,000 revellers expected....
Mar 21 2008
YOUNG people who battle against the odds to succeed in sport are wanted for a competition organised by a Birmingham shopping centre....
Mar 21 2008
THOMAS The Tank Engine has made tracks to Birmingham for a musical version of the hit children's TV programme....
Mar 21 2008
THESE are the two men police want to trace in connection with violence which marred a Premiership football clash between Manchester City and Blues....
Mar 21 2008
SCHOOLS in Birmingham are being encouraged to ensure the emotional well-being of pupils by putting happiness at the heart of the curriculum....
Mar 21 2008
ALEX McLeish has stressed the importance of Birmingham City maintaining a goal difference that is superior to their fellow basement battlers....
Mar 21 2008
ONE of the failed July 21 suicide bombers donned a burkha in a bid to escape police....
Mar 21 2008
DISPUTES between neighbours is the No.1 reason for assaults in the West Midlands, it was revealed today....
