Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A Nigerian gang - including two men from Birmingham - which stole the identities of dead babies and then plundered bank accounts set up in their name have been jailed. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A woman from Staffordshire, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, has accused Gordon Brown of evading the questions in his evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
Officers in Staffordshire's Trent Valley police division have arrested 24 people as part of a day of action against suspected offenders and defendants wanted on court warrants. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
The sentencing of the mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old Birmingham girl who starved to death has been adjourned so the judge can hear evidence from psychiatrists in person. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
POLICE were today questioning another man over a bank raid in which three grave-diggers were kidnapped and their digger used to smash into the building. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A CORONER at the inquest of a nine-year-old Midland girl strangled by her mother’s lorry driver fiancé said she should have been “safely tucked up in her bed at home”, not in a lorry cab. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
THE packed NIA rises to its feet and goes wild as a middle-aged man strolls out on to the stage bathed in light. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a car overturned in Birmingham. Read
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CHILDREN’S Secretary Ed Balls has pledged to do whatever it takes to hold to account the people who failed to save seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq from a ghastly death. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
But the Office for Standards in Eduction (Ofsted) has previously said a third of serious case reviews are “inadequate” and need to be more independent, child-focused and prepared with greater urgency. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
Khyra’s mother, Angela Gordon, aged 35, and her step-father, Junaid Abuhamza, aged 31, were being sentenced for her manslaughter. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
The city council’s opposition Labour group is supporting the Mail’s demand for a formal investigation into mistakes by social workers and education officials which resulted in the gruesome death of seven-year-old Khyra. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
AN ANIMAL rights enthusiast who piloted a gyrocopter which killed a hunt supporter believed he had been shot at from the ground and feared a “gang” was on its way to attack him, a court heard. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A REWARD has been offered for help to catch three masked robbers who held up a Birmingham service station. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
CUSTOMS and excise Revenue officers have told a Birmingham court that a gang tried to defraud the public purse of half a million pounds by smuggling three million cigarettes into the region. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
PROPOSALS to build more than 100 council houses on five sites across Birmingham have been approved. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
AN arson attack on the homes of vulnerable elderly residents in Birmingham could have been far worse had it not been for quick-thinking neighbours, the fire service claimed. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
AN EXPERT has claimed a war veteran died after receiving excessive sedation at a nursing home being investigated over a string of other deaths. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
BEAUTIES from all backgrounds are being urged to enter this year’s Miss Bollywood UK which will be held at a glittering ceremony in Birmingham. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
BRITAIN’S top antique experts will visit the West Midlands as part of a brand new TV show. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
HERITAGE Motor Centre in Warwickshire has won a regional award for staging the best temporary exhibition. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
PEOPLE power looks to have toppled plans for a 12.5-metre mobile phone mast close to homes and a school in the Black Country. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
NEARLY 40 West Midland jobs are on a knife-edge following the collapse into insolvency of two Redditch food specialists with combined turnovers of nearly £30 million. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
THE mum of a Midland soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has slammed the Government for its failure to call an inquiry into the use of vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
POLICE have issued an alert after two Midland women were targeted in online dating scams. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
The body of Dale Banks, aged 16, was found within sight of his home in Broadmeadow Close, Kings Norton. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A FRAUDSTER sentenced to four years in jail nine months ago is still on the run and being hunted by police. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
BANK workers could be facing the sack after using disabled badges to park free in Birmingham city centre. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A RECORD shop which has sold everything from reggae, ska and hip hop to generations of Brummies will close at the end of the month – ending more than 40 years of trading. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND care worker has been cleared of allegations that she abused five old women suffering from dementia who regularly lashed out at staff as they looked after them. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
HODGE Hill MP Liam Byrne has backed efforts to provide more family housing and a new school in Washwood Heath. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
UNIVERSITY bosses today said they hope a new book about Birmingham will stop students rejecting places in the city because of its reputation. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
BIRMINGHAM jewellery designer Fei Liu saw his designs gracing the hands of model and actress Tolula Adeyemi at the ELLE Style Awards. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
TWO people, including a teenager, were taken to hospital after a bus collided with a street-sweeping cart on a busy Birmingham road. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A SUTTON Coldfield-based care company is looking to employ three new carers to help its work with elderly people. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND dad confessed to stabbing his daughter during two dramatic telephone calls to his shocked niece, a jury has heard. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
OSBORNES Stationers, in Erdington, is holding a further craft demonstration day in aid of the John Taylor Hospice. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A CYCLE jumble sale is being held to raise cash for a Birmingham touring club. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A SCHEME to bring cowboy clampers to book by hitting them with driving licence-style penalty points lacks clout, city leaders have said. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A BUSINESSMAN who escaped death after being shot at on his way home from buying Christmas presents for his children has told how the ordeal has left him traumatised. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
SUTTON Coldfield salon Trilogy raised more than £1,700 for the Royal National Lifeboats Institution with a dinner and cabaret evening. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
JOBS have been plunged into jeopardy at Cadbury’s historic Bournville site just a month after Kraft’s controversial £11.7 billion takeover. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
Families will have to stump up almost £100 per person if they are to be fully equipped with the recommended home survival kit. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
WOMEN are being urged to get on their trainers and enter this year’s Race for Life in Sutton Coldfield. Read
Mar 05 2010 | Top Stories
A legal worker, an accountant and a string of bank employees were among a dozen defendants convicted of misusing disabled parking permits in Birmingham, including one belonging to a dead pensioner. Read