May 27 2008 | Top Stories
HUNDREDS of commuters struggled into work in Birmingham today after services on the Cross City North line were suspended at peak hour. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
FORMER West Midlands Police officers might have to be lured out of retirement to plug a staff shortage expected during the 2012 Olympics. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
HOLLYWOOD cartoon creations Wallace and Gromit today visited Birmingham Children's Hospital to promote a national fundraising initiative. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
THE inquiry into the collapse of MG Rover has been likened to War and Peace after clocking up a bill of £12 million plus – with no end in sight. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
FAMILIES have the chance to voice their feelings at roadshows about Birmingham International Airport's ambitious £1 billion expansion plans. The airport has submitted a planning application to Solihull Council to lengthen the runway by 405 metres towards the villages of Bickenhill and Hampton-in-Arden so can handle up to an extra 17,000 flights a year. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A MAN was shot in the eye today by a gunman who fired through the window of a house in a quiet Birmingham cul de sac. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
ONE of the Midlands' most successful cycling clubs now has a new sponsor, thanks to the Birmingham Mail. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
CARTOON strips by two Birmingham creators are set to feature in the country’s newest weekly comic for children. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
THE wife of a Birmingham lorry driver who died from a painful lung disease has launched a legal battle for compensation against the company he worked for. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM may have been battered by wind and rain, but people at the Lord Mayor's Show were determined not to let the weather spoil their fun. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
HUNDREDS of people had a quacking Bank Holiday as they helped raise hundreds of pounds for a cancer support group. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
WEST Midlands Police are appealing for witnesses and information following an attempted robbery. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A MAN who invented a burglary at his Birmingham home has been hit with an £80 on-the-spot fine - after a police investigation found he'd made it up. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
SCHOOL caretaker Sal Ullah is passing on his passion for fishing to pupils. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
MIDLAND researchers have reached a dead end in how to cut the drastically high numbers of Asian patients suffering life-threatening problems due to diabetes. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND driver was lucky to be alive today after his car was crushed by a tree blown down by 60mph winds. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A UNIVERSITY in Birmingham is set to cut its carbon footprint and reduce its energy bills as part of a national scheme. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
THE year-long reign of beat bobby Aimee-Louise Porch as Birmingham's Rose of Tralee is about to come to an end. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
PHILIP Veal's cooking is just champion - and now the chef who wants to follow in the footsteps of kitchen heroes Gordon Ramsay and Raymond Blanc has the trophy to prove it. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A PROUD city restaurateur has spoken of his joy at meeting the Queen during a special event. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
GIANTS of industry and lesser-known firms whose products spread the name of Smethwick all over the world are to live on in a new book about the town. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
Birmingham has not seen its like for nearly 30 years. But yesterday Osmond-mania returned to the city with thousands of young-at-heart women re-living their past. Among them was self-confessed Osmonds nut Lindsey Campton Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND university student arrested in America for allegedly using a fake ID to buy a gun for a dare was described by neighbours in his home town today as a “loner”. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
POLICE officers in Staffordshire are to be given hand held mini computers to help them cut bureaucracy and spend more time on the beat. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
PRESENTER and writer Monty Don said he intended to make a full recovery after suffering a minor stroke six weeks ago. Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND MP has criticised Government claims that the area needs thousands of new homes as "completely misleading". Read
May 27 2008 | Top Stories
ONE of the country’s most bizarre and dangerous sporting challenges became more perilous than ever as fearless thrill-seekers chased a giant cheese down a steep slope in torrential rain. Read