BIRMINGHAM’S Golden Mile is the smog centre of the city and action is needed to tackle pollution from cars, taxis and buses, according to a report on air quality.Read
A SCHEME allowing motorists to drive on the hard shoulder in a bid to keep traffic flowing on the M42 motorway has proved such a success highways chiefs have increased the speed limit.Read
THREE members of staff from a Worcestershire PR consultancy will be going more than the extra mile for one of their clients when they run Sunday’s Birmingham Half Marathon.Read
FANS across Birmingham and the Black Country are being encouraged to dig out their old memorabilia for a roadshow event to mark the 40th anniversary of “heavy metal”.Read
A MIDLAND MP’s campaign to end secrecy in family law courts appears set for victory.John Hemming (Lib Dem, Birmingham Yardley) has come under fire from politicians and judges for claiming that family courts sometimes remove children from their families “for no good reason”.Read
RELATIVES of a former Birmingham bakery worker who died from a painful asbestos-linked lung disease are calling on ex-colleagues to help them get compensation.Read
CRISIS talks over the future of an Afro-Caribbean centre descended into chaos as angry community members failed to get the answers they wanted from council bosses.Read
SHE may have failed to clinch the £1 million record deal on TV’s X Factor show, but Midland mum-of-two Niki Evans proved she has a winning voice when she took to the stage in the Blood Brothers musical at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre.Read
A LASTING tribute to Birmingham’s long-held status as the capital of the car manufacturing world will form the centrepiece of a new town set to rise from the ruins of the MG Rover plant at Longbridge.Read
