A DISGRACED tycoon who sacked 130 Birmingham workers by text message suffered depression after his company folded with debts of £100 million, an inquest heard.Read
A ROYAL Marine from Birmingham who threw himself on a grenade to save his comrades said he was “honoured” to receive the George Cross from the Queen.Read
PLAYERS from Birmingham City, Villa and West Brom joined legendary 70s rocker Noddy Holder and news presenter Joanne Malin at Cineworld, in Broad Street, for the region’s first showing of the new Bond film.Read
HE’S terrified enough opposition defences down the years and his new haircut is pretty scary...but now Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney has been immortalised in a pumpkin.Read
A PETITION has been launched to persuade pop giants Take That to perform a U-turn and make an appearance in the Midlands during their 2009 UK Stadium Tour.Read
SCHOOLS are failing to teach basic skills because they are weighed down with initiatives and forced to focus on exam results, Birmingham residents told Gordon Brown and the Cabinet.Read
A FORMER Birmingham Mail reporter has turned his talents to authorship by lifting the lid on one of the Midlands’ most baffling murder cases.Michael Posner, who spent more than 40 years as a court reporter before retiring recently, was intrigued by a macabre story which began in 1971 with the discovery of a naked trussed-up body found buried in a shallow grave in Staffordshire.Read
