Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
THREE Birmingham men who admitted selling imported cars which had been clocked have been handed community orders. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
BOSSES from Birmingham’s failing children’s social services department were given a dressing down by a Government Minister and told: “Make immediate improvements, and no more excuses”. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
TWO thugs stormed into a Midland family’s home wearing balaclavas and waving kitchen knives demanding they pay a £1,500 debt – by mistake. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A FREE swimming programme for children and the elderly will remain in a Midlands town despite government cuts. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
COUNCIL leaders in Birmingham have voted to slash £7 million from a grant to tackle unemployment. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A JUDGE has expressed his astonishment that five Midland youths who verbally abused an elderly Asian lady while throwing snowballs at her were found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
NETWORK Rail has submitted plans to make Sutton Coldfield Railway Station more accessible. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
THE developers of the former Alstom Train factory, in Washwood Heath, have been granted an extra five years to start work on a modern industrial estate. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
RUNNERS are being sought to help raise funds for injured soldiers and sports stars of the future. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A BIRMINGHAM man has lost a bitter legal row over a disputed will with the partner of his dead father. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
Distraction burglar John Donegan, from Yardley, pictured right, selected elderly and vulnerable victims, Birmingham Crown Court heard. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
POLICE are investigating after 40 pigeons, some of them with their heads cut off, were found strewn across the grounds of a scout car park. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
AN exhibition which explores the poetic potential in everyday objects has opened in Digbeth. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
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Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A PUBLIC meeting on the future of maternity services across Sandwell and west Birmingham will be held next week. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A MAN-eating lion escaped from a circus in Birmingham – pursued by workers who chased it into the city’s sewerage system. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A PRAYER vigil will be held in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Islamabad air accident. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
PROTESTS have been launched over the axing of a £5 million Birmingham youth centre just weeks before building work was set to begin. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A MIDLAND aid worker who has just returned from a fact-finding mission to Niger has called for immediate action to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the West African country. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
HE’s arguably the current master of thriller novels, so it’s no surprise that author Jeffery Deaver had a Birmingham audience of fans gripped as they met him face to face. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
TWO brothers have been jailed for carrying out a terrifying armed attack on a Birmingham post office. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
COUNTERFEIT clothing worth £50,000 was seized from a Birmingham market stall in a swoop by trading standards officers. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
GREEN Party members are to head to Birmingham for their annual party conference. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
HOUSE of Commons officials are fighting requests to reveal which ex-Midland MPs have received “golden goodbyes” of up to £64,766 to help them adjust to life outside Westminster. Read
Jul 31 2010 | Top Stories
A MOTHER claimed her newborn baby was left fighting for her life after contracting E. coli on a “dirty” maternity ward. Read