Articles...
May 7 2008
A PUBLIC inquiry into the compulsory purchase of properties and a footpath set to be swallowed up by a £100 million shopping complex in a Midlands town was beginning today....
May 7 2008
THE Schools Minister made a whistle stop tour of a Birmingham special school to raise awareness about the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics. Jim Knight was joined at the Wilson Stuart Special School, in Perry Common Road, Erdington, by paralympic swimmer Chris Holmes, and international volleyball player Denise Austin....
May 7 2008
HIGH Street giants Marks & Spencer have got it all bagged up when it comes to doing their bit for the planet....
May 7 2008
THE owners of a Birmingham shop were say they may be forced to close after copycat hole-in-the-roof raiders struck twice in two months....
May 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM MPs today warned Gordon Brown he must spell out full details of the compensation package for people who had lost out as a result of the scrapping of the 10p rate....
May 7 2008
OSCAR-nominated film director Morgan Spurlock charmed his way through a question and answer session at a Birmingham cinema....
May 7 2008
THE German airline Lufthansa has launched a new direct service between Birmingham and Hamburg....
May 7 2008
A NEW dawn has been signalled for one of Birmingham’s most crime-plagued areas with plans for a major affordable housing project on an industrial site which once housed a match factory....
May 7 2008
A SENIOR councillor and lifelong West Bromwich Albion fan today called on fellow supporters to bombard the club with protests over its decision to reject an open top bus parade and civic reception....
May 7 2008
FORMER Aston Villa legend Paul Birch has fallen seriously ill with cancer, it was revealed today....
May 7 2008
INTRUDERS stripping pipes in a Birmingham house may have caused a huge gas explosion which demolished the property....
May 7 2008
MURDER squad detectives are probing the suspicious death of a woman whose body was discovered at a house in Birmingham....
May 7 2008
A DRUG-addicted doctor used a patient's name to make out prescriptions for himself, but was caught because a pharmacist could not read his writing. ...
May 7 2008
POLICE are hunting a Russian man and a woman after thieves swapped diamonds worth £160,000 for a box of sweets during at raid at a Birmingham shop....
May 7 2008
A CATALOGUE of errors led to a "vulnerable" pensioner dying after he was scalded in a bath of boiling water at a respite centre for the mentally ill in Birmingham, a court heard....
May 7 2008
CADBURY'S world-famous Bournville factory has won a massive £70 million vote of confidence, securing its future as a manufacturing site following two troubled years....
May 7 2008
EVERY weekend up to 50,000 registered footballers in the Birmingham County FA area step out on to sports grounds and park pitches to play their part....
May 7 2008
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze at a derelict factory site in the Midlands....
May 7 2008
THERE'S cash in that there gold.. according to one Dudley jeweller who is reporting queues around the block every day at his family-run shop....
May 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM families have a chance to sit in an air raid shelter, hear 1940s music and imagine what life was like for people in the city fighting for survival during the Second World War....
May 7 2008
POLICE have released an image of a man they are trying to trace after a rail worker was attacked at Birmingham's New Street station....
May 7 2008
READER Teresa Hayes' hunch that she was coming into some money proved correct when she became the first to win the Birmingham Mail's Cut the Cost competition....
May 7 2008
LITTLE Mia Goldberg is officially one of West Bromwich Albion's youngest fans after dad Adrian bought her a season ticket as an early birthday present....
May 7 2008
A POLICE team of "gang-busters" has been set up to tackle criminals blighting the lives of people in inner-city Birmingham....
May 7 2008
THE Irish community bid a fond farewell to tireless fund-raiser and "leading light" Patsy O'Brien....
May 7 2008
BIRMINGHAM City University has been given the green light to build a student village in Perry Barr....
May 7 2008
A SMALL black-and-white cottage in a Midland village may not look much like a museum....
May 7 2008
AN internationally-known Christian speaker will be in Solihull tonight to talk about guns, gangs and hoodies....
May 7 2008
GRIEVING relatives of a popular Elvis fan and charity fundraiser who died of a heart attack have suffered further heartbreak after they were told she cannot be buried where she wanted....
