US food giant Kraft has taken a big step forward in £10.2 billion plans to take over Cadbury after it secured £5.4 billion in bridge financing from a group of nine banks.Read
Five British soldiers were killed in a single incident in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today. Next of kin have been informed.Read
A EX-SERVICEMAN and former Lord Mayor of Birmingham has accused the city council of letting down war veterans by starting building work in Centenary Square just two weeks ahead of Remembrance Sunday.Read
UB40’s Brian Travers says Birmingham faces becoming a city famous for nothing more than “empty duplexes and shoe shops” unless more is done to protect the music scene.Read
The Government has offered to support legal action forcing former Rover directors to hand over up to £22 million to former employees and community projects.Read
Birmingham City Council’s human resources boss is ‘‘damn proud’’ of the authority’s controversial Single Status programme, an employment tribunal heard.Read
APPRENTICE star Jo Cameron has spoken of her baby joy two years after she lost a child and defied doctors who feared she might never fall pregnant again.Read
A Birmingham autumn arts festival, on a size and scale to rival Edinburgh and Paris, could be launched in 2013 as part of the drive to become the UK City of Culture.Read
PART of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold – which could be snapped up by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery – will head back to the Midlands next year, it has emerged.Read
A TEENAGER involved in a burglary which left two of the raiders dead from carbon dioxide poisoning told a coroner how he heard them shouting for help.Read
