Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
IS it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superman - flying into Birmingham’s Bullring as Brummie businessman Donato Esposito prepares to launch an on-line comic book. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
AN Aston Villa fan has been charged with the murder of fellow 26-year-old Villa supporter Christopher Priest following the game against Birmingham City. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
CONSERVATIVE party members have thrown their weight behind a campaign to prevent further post office closures in Erdington. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM councillor Deirdre Alden today accused the independent watchdog responsible for safeguarding the interests of customers using postal services of lacking a “bark, bite or teeth” in the fight against proposed Post Office closures. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
HE may be 88, but dare-devil Tom Lackey is living proof that age doesn’t have to stop you from walking on the wild side. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
ROGUE “killer manure’” has decimated crops in Birmingham allotments, it was revealed today. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A VICTORIA Cross awarded to a brave, modest Birmingham soldier who made an “extraordinary protracted one-man stand” during World War One sold for £211,725 at auction. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
CITY councillors have been reassured that everything is being done to learn the lessons of the tragic death of Khyra Ishaq. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
THIEVES are raiding allotments across the region for vegetables, as the credit crunch forces up supermarket prices. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A PLEA has gone out to animal lovers to help homeless pets on a long term basis at the RSPCA’s Birmingham Animal Centre. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A CANNABIS factory on the 16th storey of a Birmingham tower block has been smashed in a police raid. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
THE Bishop of Birmingham is writing to more than 400 pupils and staff at a school after hailing it as a role model for church schools. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM blockbuster could be heading to a cinema near you if a city writer drums up enough support for his film idea. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A DAD will be putting his best foot forward while wearing odd socks for a fund-raising walk in memory of his son. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
MORE than a century of academic tradition comes to Birmingham today when nearly 200 former pupils of a girls’ school attend an historic lunch. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
CAROLINE Spelman, the Conservative Chair and Meriden MP, today received staunch backing from Tory colleagues following fresh claims about her Parliamentary expenses. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
VIOLENT teenage gang members who attacked a man in Birmingham just weeks after being slapped with ASBOs have been locked up for a total of eight years. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
GORDON Brown celebrates 12 months as Prime Minister today. Political Editor Jonathan Walker examines how it all went awry for Gordon. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A SERIES of environment-friendly new towns could become the “eco-slums” of the future without more involvement from councils in their development, the Local Government Association warned today. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
CHILDREN across the West Midlands are being given the chance to shine like they’ve never shone before. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A CAR was the torque of the National Exhibition Centre when it was suspended from the roof as part of a team-building exercise. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
SENIOR Tory leaders were today demanding the sacking of their own party chairman, Meriden MP Caroline Spelman. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
A NEW glass-fronted tower block will “stick out like a sore thumb”’ in Birmingham’s historic city centre according to planning chiefs. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
THE family of a seven-year-old Birmingham girl who allegedly starved to death have been told that her body still cannot be released for her funeral. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
EMERGENCY legislation approving the use of anonymous evidence in court cases is to be rushed through Parliament within a fortnight. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
MUMS will be making sure there’s no red, red wine spilt on the new shirts of a girls’ netball club after landing a sponsorship deal with reggae giants UB40. Read
Jun 27 2008 | Top Stories
STEAM train buffs can help celebrating a century of locomotive history this weekend as a Birmingham depot marks its 100th anniversary. Read