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May 6 2008
BRITAIN'S self-proclaimed "only black farmer" is inviting urban youngsters to trade in the city life for the countryside and try their hand at farming....
May 6 2008
AN internationally-known Christian speaker will be in Solihull tonight to talk about guns, gangs and hoodies....
May 6 2008
AN urgent telegram from Wolves to one of their young stars telling him that he was playing on Saturday – and adding "bring father and mother" - is up for auction....
May 6 2008
A CAVALCADE of iconic photos from Birmingham punk star Toyah Wilcox are to be displayed in a special on-line gallery as she marks her 50th birthday this month....
May 6 2008
BIRMINGHAM City University has been given the green light to build a student village in Perry Barr....
May 6 2008
INTREPID Albion fan Phil Edwards took his life in his hands as he went to the home of bitter rivals Birmingham City for a brave charity stunt....
May 6 2008
SHELTERED homes for frail elderly are to be built at the heart of a new £50 million Sutton Coldfield shopping complex sparking protests from councillors....
May 6 2008
TUCKED away between Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon, people living in Wychavon are said to enjoy among the best quality of life in rural Britain....
May 6 2008
SUPERGIRL flew into Birmingham to help the city’s oldest comic shop celebrate an international event of epic proportions....
May 6 2008
SUTTON Coldfield-based MEP Mike Nattrass is attempting to get elected to Westminster....
May 6 2008
FANS of Meccano flocked to a Midland exhibition featuring models of locomotives, planes and ships....
May 6 2008
LITTLE Cerys Edwards, the Birmingham child left seriously brain damaged in a road accident, is to get an interim payment of £800,000 in damages...
May 6 2008
TENS of thousands of triumphant Albion fans were left devastated today after the Baggies snubbed plans for an open-top bus parade and civic reception....
May 6 2008
ACTOR John Nettles today accused the Prime Minister of "mugging the nation’s heritage" over plans to build an eco-town near his Warwickshire country home....
May 6 2008
IT was a musical project that could have gone down like a lead balloon, But last night’s show proved that the teaming of American bluegrass star Alison Krauss and West Bromwich-born hard rock legend Robert Plant is a soaring success....
May 6 2008
THE Government is to inject £28 million into West Midlands schools to rescue pupils from under-performance and create an educational "renaissance"....
May 6 2008
RUMOURS of the Wolverhampton ring road tramp’s Nazi past were today finally been laid to rest....
May 6 2008
FIREFIGHTERS battled into the night to control a fire which swept through a derelict nursing home in Great Barr....
May 6 2008
DOGS began to join the Thin Blue Line after World War II when it was realised they could help maintain order and catch criminals....
May 6 2008
AHHHHH! The cute canine cadets pictured are the latest recruits to West Midlands Police sniffer dogs team....
May 6 2008
BIRMINGHAM scientists have made a breakthrough that could stop people having seizures brought on by a renewable energy source....
May 6 2008
A MOTHER once plagued by panic attacks told today how learning martial arts had changed her life....
May 6 2008
IT'S been rocking and rolling for five decades and now the future sounds good for Birmingham's very own house of music....
May 6 2008
A PENSIONER whose daughter's grave has been repeatedly targeted by vandals has said she wishes she could dig up the body and bury it somewhere else....
May 6 2008
LONG-awaited work to repair a crumbling section of Birmingham's iconic Spaghetti Junction will start within weeks....
May 6 2008
PRINCESS Alexandra was opening St Giles Hospice's new Sutton Coldfield facility today, quarter of a century after she opened the charity's first home in Whittington....
May 6 2008
VISITORS to Sutton Park felt they had travelled back in time when they came face to face with its former owner, Henry VIII....
May 6 2008
A COLLEGE boss has paid tribute to a colleague who died in a head-on crash in the Midlands....
May 6 2008
AT West Midlands Police Dog Training School, Mail Crime Correspondent MARK COWAN went to see what it takes to turn the cute cadets into fully-fledged four-legged crimefighters....
May 6 2008
A COLOURFUL cavalcade of historic working canal boats brought thousands of waterways enthusiasts flooding to the Black Country Living Museum....
May 6 2008
BRUMMIES who basked in Bank Holiday sunshine can expect more fine weather this week as temperatures in the city put Europe's holiday hotspots in the shade....
May 6 2008
THE parents of Cerys Edwards, who suffered devastating injuries in a car crash, have launched an online petition to try to change the law....
May 6 2008
BANKING group Lloyds TSB today revealed a further £387 million hit from the credit crunch, but signalled there would be no need for a cash call to investors....
May 6 2008
OSCAR-nominated film-maker Morgan Spurlock has arrive in Birmingham to look for the world's most wanted man - Osama Bin Laden....
May 6 2008
WEST Midlands Police currently has 69 dog handlers and 91 dogs in the ranks....
May 6 2008
A BIRMINGHAM restauranteur has cooked up a right Royal treat after being invited to a prestigious reception at Buckingham Palace by The Queen....
