AN ORGANISATION which operates as an emergency salt brokerage service for councils has called for better coordination to prevent a grit shortage in the region during the current winter freeze.Read
CHEAP and cheerful baltis are set to entice thousands of visitors to Birmingham as food lovers look for a budget night out during the credit crunch.Read
POLICE officers set up metal detectors at a Birmingham special school as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the serious implications of carrying a knife.Read
BIRMINGHAM council leaders could be forced to hold a referendum on whether the city should be run by a directly elected mayor if just 14,000 people sign a petition under a new government plan.Read
THE Birmingham Mail campaign to allow the people of the city to decide whether or not it is run by an elected mayor came to an end last March when insufficient signatures were received.Read
A BUS driver alleged to have been driving at speed and using his mobile phone when he lost control of his single decker, killing a pedestrian, maintained to a jury the brakes failed on the vehicle.Read
A MIDLAND bus driver has been cleared by a jury of killing a 40-year-old pedestrian when his single decker went out of control, left the road and ploughed into two terraced houses.Read
FRIENDS and relatives of a man who died from head injuries after falling over in a Birmingham shopping centre have set up an internet site paying tribute to a “lovely man with a heart of gold”.Read
