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Apr 25 2008
THE Birmingham Mail will today reveal the full story about the tragic death of Aston Villa fan Christopher Priest following Sunday’s derby....
Apr 25 2008
TWO people arrested on suspicion of murdering disabled James Hughes were released without charge today....
Apr 25 2008
HUNDREDS of cannabis plants were seized in a police raid on a drugs farm hidden in a Birmingham semi....
Apr 25 2008
THESE images of animal cruelty were defended as simple attempts to "discipline" a big, strong dog. Daniel Baillie, of Sheppey Drive, Smiths Wood, told police that kicking his two-year-old bull mastiff was right "so it will obey me."...
Apr 25 2008
BIRMINGHAM DJ Tim Shaw has been suspended following a complaint to Ofcom....
Apr 25 2008
MOST people take things in their stride after a major operation. But active John Chatterton decided the only way to recover from a double hip replacement was to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime 5,000 mile walk around Britain's coastline....
Apr 25 2008
A TEAM of girl footballers got the star treatment when they were visited by a Premiership dietician ahead of today's dream cup final date at Wembley....
Apr 25 2008
TWO Birmingham men were rescued from their sinking car as they were caught out by the tide near a west coast tourist spot....
Apr 25 2008
TWO men were jailed for five-and-a-half years each today for killing a 16-year-old boy found drowned in a water-filled claypit in the West Midlands....
Apr 25 2008
A SENIOR Birmingham doctor who used the internet to look at child pornography has avoided being sent to jail....
Apr 25 2008
POLICE investigating the murder of a disabled man were today granted a further 12 hours to question his stepfather and a youth, their lawyer said today....
Apr 25 2008
DETECTIVES were today applying to magistrates for a custody extension to continue holding a man and a youth over the murder of disabled James Hughes....
Apr 25 2008
SUPPORT for the all out strike by council workers increased for yesterday's second day of action after what union bosses admitted was a slow start....
Apr 25 2008
THE former head of a Birmingham nursery school who "force fed" young children in her care has been banned from teaching for three years....
Apr 25 2008
RELATIVES are employed by 12 West Midlands MPs at the taxpayer’s expense, it was revealed today....
Apr 25 2008
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown visited a Black Country nursery as thousands of West Midland teachers were striking....
Apr 25 2008
A TEENAGER escaped with minor injuries after his car crashed into another vehicle and then flipped onto its roof in the Black Country....
Apr 25 2008
FIRE crews in Northfield rescued an 18-year-old man from a house fire in Redditch Road, West Heath....
Apr 25 2008
1 Who is now running Longbridge - Nanjing or SAIC? SAIC President Chen Hong has made the most recent public statements. Is SAIC now solely in charge?...
Apr 25 2008
THE heartbroken parents of a three-year-old boy who died after being found lying face down in a pond have been told not to blame themselves for the tragedy....
Apr 25 2008
The Birmingham Mail was the first newspaper to talk in depth to Nanjing following the Chinese takeover of Longbridge in 2005, and extracted a string of promises....
Apr 25 2008
THE Birmingham Mail has smashed through Nanjing's bamboo curtain once before - with a No More Chinese Whispers campaign which generated worldwide interest....
Apr 25 2008
LONGBRIDGE'S production lines will be up and running again by the second half of 2008, Birmingham council leader Coun Mike Whitby said today....
Apr 25 2008
A CHIROPODIST has been struck off for numerous acts of dishonesty with his patients....
Apr 25 2008
THIS poignant picture of a demolition site alongside the old body assembly plant at Longbridge's West Works was taken yesterday afternoon. It shows how Herbert Austin's once famous factory, is today a sad shadow of its former self....
Apr 25 2008
BIRMINGHAM MP John Hemming is to release a campaigning pop single protesting against miscarriages of justice....
Apr 25 2008
AFTER years of heartache trying for a baby, former Villa hero Ian Taylor and his wife Tracey had almost given up hope when they were surprised by a hat-trick of joy....
Apr 25 2008
MOST pub landlords can stand the constant barrel-changing, back-chat from regulars and cleaning sticky tables for only so long....
Apr 25 2008
HOSPITAL bosses shamed today by a rise in MRSA have vowed that infection control is their top priority....
Apr 25 2008
SOLIHULL Lib Dem MP Lorely Burt is calling on the borough council to pull the plug on the soaring energy costs of street lighting which have risen by almost £300,000....
Apr 25 2008
THE oldest company in Birmingham is expanding after more than 330 years of helping to kit out the military....
Apr 25 2008
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to stop expensive 0844 phone numbers being used by GP surgeries have rapped Birmingham health bosses for dragging their feet....
Apr 25 2008
THE parents of little Cerys Edwards said the man who caused her such devastating injuries should serve a life sentence like their daughter....
Apr 25 2008
ANTONIO Boparan said he was "truly sorry" for the crash in a statement released after he was jailed....
Apr 25 2008
ANY success Janet Barton achieves with a campaign to make Government road safety bosses sit up and listen will come too late for her....
Apr 25 2008
A BIRMINGHAM artist is being driven to success as he creates paintings using remote-control cars....
