Sep
2009
Articles from 12th Sep 2009
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Nick Owen on menu for Birmingham RSPCA fund booster
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
ANIMAL fans can enjoy a dinner date with Nick Owen while helping raise funds for charity. Read
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Post deliveries halted in Birmingham as Royal Mail staff strike
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
Postal staff across the UK went on strike today ahead of a national ballot Read
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Carl Chinn urges MG Rover Phoenix Four to pay £1m each into MG Trust Fund
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
CARL Chinn has urged each of the Phoenix Four to pay £1 million to help the 6,500 workers who lost their jobs when the company collapsed. Read
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Former Longbridge director Brian Parker breached executive duties over £100,000 payment – MG Rover report
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM businessman and former Longbridge director breached executive duties over a £100,000 payment received from St Modwen Properties, says the report into MG Rover’s collapse. Read
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Man who burgled blind pensioner three weeks before his death guilty of planning 35 raids
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A MAN has admitted burgling a blind pensioner who died three weeks after his Birmingham home had been targeted in a distraction-type break-in. Read
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Terminally-ill Acocks Green man, 85, conned into paying £12,000 for bogus roof repairs
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
CONMEN who fleeced a terminally-ill Birmingham man out of £12,000 of his life savings for a bogus roof repair were today branded “inhuman” by his angry daughter. Read
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MG Rover director paid his lover £1.7m for consultancy work
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
FIRMS linked to Phoenix Four director Nick Stephenson’s Chinese lover Qu Li received nearly £1.7 million over a 15-month period for consultancy work, the report reveals. Read
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Sister of murdered Aston Villa fan pleas for calm ahead of Birmingham derby
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
THE family of murdered Aston Villa fan Christopher Priest today made an impassioned plea for calm ahead of the Blues-Villa match tomorrow. Read
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Great Barr jailed after internet sex chat sting with "teenager"
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A SELF-employed gardener from Birmingham used internet chat rooms to send sexually explicit messages to a “13-year-old girl”. Read
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New appeal in taxi driver Mohammed Arshad murder hunt
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
POLICE investigating the murder of taxi driver Mohammed Arshad have made a new appeal after a witness came forward to report a near-collision with a dark blue taxi at about the time of the attack. Read
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500 Birmingham bin men face losing £8,000 pay rise
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
AN £8,000-a-year pay rise handed to 500 Birmingham City Council binmen and street sweepers was “legally flawed” and is likely to be challenged in court. Read
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St Anne's hostel boss blasts council's grant cut as 'naive'
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
THE future of a hostel which has served Birmingham’s homeless for more than 30 years was on the line today after it lost its £400,000 city council grant. Read
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Birmingham car clamper Southall back in business after district judge overturns banning order
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A CLAMPER at war with Birmingham City Council has won the right to work again after a court overturned a legal ruling which banned him from the trade. Read
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Birmingham beer festival pays tribute toMatthew Boulton
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
THOUSANDS of visitors have been flocking to Aston University to celebrate the life of Birmingham entrepreneur Matthew Boulton. Read
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Triathlete ace Toby Radcliffe gives top tips to Birmingham half marathon runners
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
TRIATHLETE Toby Radcliffe was in Cannon Hill Park sharing helpful tips with runners taking part in the EDF Energy Half Marathon in Birmingham. Read
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Superjumbo landing at Birmingham captured by Flickr group
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
Members of the Birmingham Mail’s Flickr group were out in force to take pictures of the Emirates A380 double-decker superjumbo at Birmingham Airport. Read
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Balsall Common tennis club wins award
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
BERKSWELL and Balsall Common Tennis Club has received recognition from the LTA for its “excellent standards” with the presentation of Tennis Clubmark. Read
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Birmingham pub Man on the Moon celebrates being named the best
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
REGULARS at a Birmingham pub are over the moon it was named the city’s best inn. Read
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Olympic stars lead Birmingham pupils in swim campaign
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
OLYMPIC swimmers Steve Parry and Mark Foster proved the perfect role models as a mobile swimming pool opened to children in Birmingham. Read
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Midlands train vision 'worthless' if rail companies keep having strikes
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A PUBLIC transport vision aiming to move more than a million car drivers from road to rail will be left in tatters if train companies do not resolve industrial disputes, a city transport expert has claimed. Read
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Baby zebra Dougal's foal play fails to impress two-ton rhino
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
BABY zebra Dougal had a tough introduction to the law of the jungle – when an angry rhino squared up to him at West Midlands Safari Park. Read
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Edgbaston boys who pelted cars with eggs end up in court
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A CAR driver was forced to swerve by youths bombarding vehicles with eggs on a road in Birmingham. Read
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Tamworth couple's charity bike ride in memory of six-year-old son who died of cancer
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND couple are in the saddle for a mammoth bike ride in memory of their son, who died of cancer. Read
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Solihull MP's 'difficult dilemma' over hospice plans for green belt
Sep 12 2009 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND MP has admitted that a cancer charity’s planning wrangle over a hospice earmarked for green belt land is “a difficult dilemma”. Read
