Embattled Bromsgrove MP Julie Kirkbride is dismissing the latest claim about her expenses which allege that her brother bought around £1,000 of electrical equipment using her parliamentary office expense account.Read
Dr John Sentamu spoke jointly with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to urge voters not to let the expenses scandal lead to protest votes for the British National Party.Read
BIRMINGHAM Mail readers are being given the chance to name a tram after their favourite local legend as part of a week of celebrations to mark the ten year anniversary of the Midland Metro.Read
Carl Spencer, aged 37, described as an “extremely talented but modest man” was a director of Hednesford based firm Spencair, and part of a 17-member crew commissioned by the National Geographic magazine to film the wreck of HMHS Britannic.Read
A MIDLAND actress has spoken about a horrific backstage accident when she fell through an open trapdoor, shattering her ribcage and puncturing a lung.Read
MORE than one in ten jobless Birmingham youngsters are claiming benefits, costing taxpayers almost £690,000 a week and putting a strain on youth charities, new figures revealed.Read
IT WAS an emotional farewell for Birmingham’s outgoing Lord Mayor Chauhdry Rashid and a warm welcome to his replacement Councillor Michael Wilkes at one of the city’s most prestigious civic bashes.Read
THE driver of a car involved in a horrific motorway crash after heading the wrong way along the M6 is understood to be a Zimbabwean heading to see his girlfriend after finishing his university exams.Read
IT WAS an emotional farewell for Birmingham’s outgoing Lord Mayor Chauhdry Rashid and a warm welcome to his replacement Councillor Michael Wilkes at one of the city’s most prestigious civic bashes.Read
THE driver of a car involved in a horrific motorway crash after heading the wrong way along the M6 is understood to be a Zimbabwean heading to see his girlfriend after finishing his university exams.Read
A LEADING single parent charity has received a record number of calls to its helpline days after new figures shamed the West Midlands as one of the country’s child poverty blackspots.Read
A MIDLAND carnival is set to go quackers with the launch of its annual fund-raising duck race with the backing of Kidderminster Carnival’s queen, 18-year-old Ruth Keenan.Read
THE driver of a car involved in a horrific motorway crash after heading the wrong way along the M6 is understood to be a Zimbabwean heading to see his girlfriend after finishing his university exams.Read
IT WAS an emotional farewell for Birmingham’s outgoing Lord Mayor Chauhdry Rashid and a warm welcome to his replacement Councillor Michael Wilkes at one of the city’s most prestigious civic bashes.Read
