A MAN was today being held by police investigating the alleged murder of a young dad-of-one found slumped on a Birmingham high street with fatal head injuries.Read
BIRMINGHAM loan sharks are forcing vulnerable women into having sex with them to pay off their debts as more people plunge into the red as the recession bites.Read
LIONS on the loose, rare birds on the doorstep and council workers knocking down the wrong house are just some of the warm memories involving “lion man” Lew Foley – “the Black Country’s last great eccentric”.Read
BIRMINGHAM City Council may have to increase its borrowing levels dramatically after the credit crunch bit deep into its finances, officials have warned.Read
THE glitz and glamour of showbiz hit Birmingham when hundreds of wannabes put on their finest performances in auditions to become a Haven Holidays “Funstar”.Read
A CHARITY which provides respite care for disabled children across the West Midlands is one step closer to creating a new sensory garden thanks to a donation from the Birmingham Mail Charity Trust.Read
JAGUAR Land Rover workers have been given just two weeks to decide whether to accept a pay freeze and other cutbacks – or risk the loss of up to 1,800 jobs.Read
LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson today said he would repay almost £2,000 of taxpayers’ money spent on his Birmingham hotel room at the Conservative Party conference if it turned out he had broken official rules.Read
NEARLY two dozen under-performing secondary schools in Birmingham are to receive a vital cash boost of nearly £3 million to help improve classroom standards.Read
FIVE men, including a Lord of the Manor and a Birmingham man, are due to stand trial today accused of trying to steal £220 million by hacking into a Japanese bank’s computer system.Read
The decision to take Hay Mills, Billesley, Sheldon, Smethwick and Ward End stations off the closure list has today been hailed as victory by campaigners in the neighbourhoods affected.Read
NEARLY two dozen under-performing secondary schools in Birmingham are to receive a vital cash boost of nearly £3 million to help improve classroom standards.Read
