Tory MP Julie Kirkbride was fighting for her political future last night as it emerged that local Conservative activists would decide whether she should step down when she faces them at a meeting in Bromsgrove.
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MIDLAND MP Julie Kirkbride this afternoon announced she was quitting the House of Commons at the next election after the huge furore over her expenses claims.
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Under-fire Tory MP Julie Kirkbride is facing fresh allegations over her use of taxpayers’ money after it emerged she employs her sister even though she lives more than 100 miles from her constituency.
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A MIDLAND carnival is set to go quackers with the launch of its annual fund-raising duck race with the backing of Kidderminster Carnival’s queen, 18-year-old Ruth Keenan.
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Gordon Brown last night defended home secretary Jacqui Smith over her controversial expenses claims and refused to comment on whether she would be forced to appear before a disciplinary hearing.
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A drug dealer and his lover have been convicted of killing a Birmingham 17-year-old who was bludgeoned to death while acting as a minder for a criminal gang.
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A jury began a second day of deliberations today in the trial of a couple charged with murdering a 17-year-old whose body was dumped in a recycling bin.
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A jury retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a couple charged with murdering a 17-year-old youth whose body was dumped in a recycling bin in Worcestershire.
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A West Midlands MP at the centre of a fresh expenses scandal has promised to publish full details of her claims after it emerged she and her MP husband were both claiming for different second homes – despite sharing properties.
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A teacher accidentally showed a class of 11 and 12-year-old pupils in a Worcestershire church school a DVD of a couple simulating sex, a hearing of the General Teaching Council was told.
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