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Creature Features: Penguin TV a hit in Canada

A GROUP of students from Canada are keeping a close watch on the zoo’s Humboldt Penguins via the zoo’s website webcam.Read

Creature Features: Birds all a flutter about their new-look enclosure

A WATERFOWL enclosure has been given a makeover by bird keepers.Read

Your Charities: Claire's Kilimanjaro climb for uncle's care home

Your Charities: Claire's Kilimanjaro climb for uncle's care homeRead

Your Pets

Runny eyesRead

Your Schools: Lessons in pedal power for pupils

NORMAL lessons were put on hold for kids at a Black Country school when they took part in a two-day cycling proficiency course.Read

Your Life: Top snapper was one-off

PRESS photographer Dick Williams was a one-off, a genuine and unique character even amongst a profession of individualists.Read

Your Life: Roy's been with the Mail man and boy

A BIRMINGHAM Mail stalwart will say farewell to his much-loved colleagues when he steps down after 49 years with the paper.Read

Creature Features: Creepy day

PUPILS from Braybrook Centre, Wednesfield, learned about the work of zoos and had the chance to handle creepy-crawlies when they visited Dudley Zoo.Read

Creature Features: In the news

Dudley Zoo’s quarterly magazine ZooNooz is now read by pupils in Germany as part of their Key Stage 1 studies.Read

Creature Features: Pigging out on potatoes

Dudley Zoo’s kune-kune pigs, which originate from New Zealand and the Polynesian Islands, adore potatoes and keepers make sure there is a ready supply of their favourite spuds.Read

Your Birmingham: Exciting times at centre

The Pallasades celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and what an important year it has turned out to be.Read

Your Schools: Search for class acts

THE Birmingham Mail, in association with The Pallasades shopping centre, today launches its fourth annual Schools Awards – and we’re welcoming your entries for 2011.Read

Your Pets: My cat will not use litter tray

Q My cat, now four years old, started urinating away from her litter tray two years ago, always in the same place. My vet couldn’t find any medical reason for this and I was told it was behavioural. I’ve tried everything – surgical spirit and enzyme breakdown products to clean, pepper, tin foil, citronella, even putting food down in this place, but nothing seems to have any effect. What can I do to stop this?Read

Your Sport: Life in the fast lane!

Here are a selection of pictures from this year's Birmingham Mail Fun Run 2011.Read

Creature Features: Thirteen is a lucky number - Simples!

LOVED-up meerkats have doubled the size of their colony at the zoo in just five months.Read

Creature Features: Keepers make the grade

THREE Dudley Zoo keepers have achieved excellent results in animal care exams.Read

Your Competitions: Hunt on for worst cook in Birmingham

ARE you Birmingham’s worst cook?Read

Your Lives: A walk in the dark for fantastic cause

MORE than 1,000 women took to the streets of Birmingham at midnight on Saturday to raise more than £80,000 for life-limited children. Donned in costumes they lit up the city sights to complete the 2011 Acorns Midnight Walk. Here are their names:Read

Your Lives: Little Ricardo is on a song

A TALENTED young Birmingham singer is a step closer to securing a £50,000 recording contract after winning through to the regional final of a national competition.Read

Your Lives: Charlie is in urgent need of a donor

THE parents of a seriously ill toddler at Birmingham Children’s Hospital have launched a frantic search to find a bone marrow match which will save his life.Read