Jun
2008
Articles from 5th Jun 2008
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Dame Ellen MacArthur on green campaign
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
RECORD-BREAKING yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed into Birmingham to campaign against carbon emissions. Read
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Man vows to fight for home
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM man is facing a desperate battle to keep his home of more than 40 years after losing his mum to cancer. Unemployed Joseph Thompson goes to county court today to fight for his three bedroomed council house, in Northanger Road, Acocks Green. Read
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New film festival to launch in Tamworth
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A NEW film festival is to be launched in the Midlands in a bid to show-case the talents of movie makers from across the world. The Heart Of England International Film Festival will be held at the Ramada Hotel, in Tamworth, from Monday until Friday. Read
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Search for Baby of the Year
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
The Birmingham Mail is searching all over Birmingham to find the cutest tot in town! Read
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Mail win chopped holidays cost
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
AVID Birmingham Mail reader Amanda Wilson hopes the £2,000 she has netted in our Cut The Cost competition will go some way in cheering up her football-mad family. The 41-year-old Villa supporter has, along with her sons Ross, aged 15, and 10-year-old Oliver, resisted the temptation to tease husband and father Colin – the only Bluenose in the household – since Blues’ relegation to the Championship. Read
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Police on patrol in hospital
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM hospital is reinforcing its zero-tolerance stance against violence with a permanent police base opening in the grounds. Uniformed police will be based next to A&E at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, from Monday to help patients, visitors and staff feel safer at the hospital while also improve community policing. Read
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Readers to name city retirement village
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM Mail readers are being given the chance to name Birmingham’s first retirement village – and win a trip on the Orient Express. Read
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Violent burglar caught by 999 call
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A VIOLENT knife-wielding burglar who threatened an elderly woman and her grand-daughter was caught – when one of them secretly dialled 999. Brett Finch was high on a cocktail of drugs and drink when, balaclava-clad and armed with a four-inch lock knife, he confronted the pair in their Frankley home. Read
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New home for statue of Brum's first MP
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A STATUE which honours Birmingham’s first MP is to be moved out of Sparkbrook – because of repeated vandal attacks. Read
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Ex-Land Rover worker starts business for dog lovers
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
DOG-lover Paul Brown walked out of Land Rover with a redundancy cheque – to devote his career to giving Staffordshire bull terriers a good name. Read
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Blind Dave Heeley and Mac Carr named Local Heroes
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
CHARITY fundraising marathon runner 'Blind' Dave Heeley and his guide Malcolm 'Mad Mac' Carr are the Birmingham Mail’s latest Local Heroes. The super-fit athletes from West Bromwich went into the history books for completing seven marathons in seven continents in seven days. Read
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City launches its summer 'ocean liner'
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
IT WAS shops ahoy as the Bullring Britannia cruise ship was launched in royal style in the city centre. Read
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Crash teenager fights for life
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND teenager is today fighting for her life in Selly Oak Hospital after she received severe head injuries in a ’freak’ car crash. Read
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Indian chain snubs Cadbury
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
CADBURY products are being boycotted by one of India’s biggest supermarket chains. Read
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John Prescott: Brum was damn mess
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
POLITICAL heavyweight John Prescott said Birmingham used to be a "damn mess" before the city centre was redeveloped. Read
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Killer quizzed over death of ex-wife
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A CONVICTED city killer who was jailed 10 years ago for stabbing a man to death is being quizzed over the suspected murder of his ex-wife. Read
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Police to name man killed in roof collapse
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
POLICE were today expected to name a man who died in a massive roof collapse in the Midlands. Read
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Firefighters sift through garage remains after blaze
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
FIREFIGHTERS are today sifting through the burnt remains of a garage in Bordesley Green for clues as to how it could have caught fire. Read
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Money laundering gang jailed
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
A WEST Midlands gang which netted £1.8million through a major money laundering operation has been jailed for a total of more than 22 years. Read
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Black Country MP speaks out on road network delays
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
KEY improvements to the West Midlands road network have been delayed because of "deadbeat" civil servants, a former Transport Minister has claimed. Read
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Liza Minnelli in Brum
Jun 05 2008 | Top Stories
Graham Young reviews the show as Liza Minnelli performs in the city. Read
