ABOUT 80 drivers face redundancy at Sainsbury’s main Midland distribution centre at Hams Hall – a month after the supermarket giant announced an 11 per cent profits rise to £543million.Read
HEALTH bosses missed the chance to halt the UK’s biggest outbreak of swine flu at a Birmingham school – because they thought sick pupils had a different illness, it was revealed today.Read
A swine flu victim was in intensive care at Birmingham City hospital last night as health officials announced there were 19 new cases of the virus in the region.Read
A FIGHT to stop criminals peddling fake wares is being stepped up in Staffordshire as figures reveal millions of pounds-worth of counterfeit goods have been seized in the county.Read
A WARRANT without bail was this afternoon issued for a Birmingham man who kicked a dying dog before it was thrown from the balcony of a block of flats.Read
ABOUT 80 drivers face redundancy at Sainsbury’s main Midland distribution centre at Hams Hall – a month after the supermarket giant announced an 11 per cent profits rise to £543million.Read
POLITICS students at a Birmingham girls’ school will enjoy a close-up experience of current debates when it hosts BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions? programme.Read
MINING giants facing fierce opposition from Midland families over their plans to extract millions of tonnes of sand and gravel have claimed the move would not increase traffic.Read
RAIL police today warned spray-can vandals they were putting their lives at risk after a major clean-up was completed to Birmingham’s busiest train gateway.Read
BIRMINGHAM’S straight-talking Tory housing chief last night found an unlikely ally from the left over his launch of mass council house building in the city.Read
A BIRMINGHAM City Council campaign to recruit ethnic minority golfers plunged into the rough when a leaflet in Punjabi was found to be littered with poor grammar and spelling mistakes.Read
HEALTH bosses missed the chance to halt the UK’s biggest outbreak of swine flu at a Birmingham school – because they thought sick pupils had a different illness, it was revealed today.Read
JAGUAR Land Rover is set to axe vital research and development projects because the Government’s heavily-hyped scheme to help carmakers get loans has failed to provide a penny to any manufacturer, six months after it was launched.Read
HEALTH bosses missed the chance to halt the UK’s biggest outbreak of swine flu at a Birmingham school – because they thought sick pupils had a different illness, it was revealed today.Read
A CANCER survivor with half a lung missing is urging runners to sign up for the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon – saying: “If I can do it, so can you!”Read
RESIDENTS on Walsall’s Beechdale Estate formed the Murdock Way Residents Association, fighting plans to widen the M6 to within 20ft of their homes, and took their fight to the Internet.Read
KINGSTANDING’S Bandywood Families Project is holding an open morning for people who want to become child carers, classroom assistants and youth workers.Read
