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Lottie's Lifeline: Your organs can help save lives

LOTTIE’S Lifeline, a new Birmingham Mail campaign inspired by liver transplant baby Lottie Bryon-Edmond, hopes to encourage more people to sign up to the Organ Donor Register, to agree to their organs being used for transplantation after their death.Read

Creature Features: Families in zoo day out

FAMILIES involved with a local charity visited Dudley Zoo to meet a rare and endangered macaque they have adopted.Read

Your Lives: Security is top priority

MEET the five traders who will benefit from the Mail’s Fightback Fund with £2,000 each.Read

Your Lives: We're back in business!

BUSINESSES across the city are getting the chance to rebuild their livelihoods with £2,000 aid after attacks by looters and thugs.Read

Your Pets: Will my cats like new pup?

Q I am considering getting a new puppy but my two cats don’t get on with other animals. What do you advise?Read

Creature Features: Reaching Out

THE zoo’s outreach team joined youngsters at Farley Park, in Whitehall Rd, West Bromwich, for a series of Creature Features as part of the environmental charity Ground Work West Midlands scheme.Read

Creature Features: Snaps bring suite to life

FIFTEEN images from the Best of British calendar, featuring a range of zoo animals and their favourite foods, are now adorning the walls of the Queen Mary Suite.Read

Your Lives: Our talented staff go beyond call of duty

BIRMINGHAM’S largest hospital trust recognised staff for going beyond the call of duty at its annual awards.Read

Your Lives: Fashion show and luncheon

THE Mayor of Solihull will be among the guests at a charity fashion show and luncheon.Read

Your Lives: Raise a cup for charity

THE Birmingham branch of a national cancer charity is urging people to support its annual fund raising appeal.Read

Your Lives: Friends remember celebrated runner

COLIN Simpson, who has died aged 82, would regularly be seen by his neighbours in Solihull pounding the pavements in his running gear.Read

Your Pets: How can I get rid of maggots?

QMy rabbit has been living in the garden for the summer months, but I recently noticed some maggots in her fur. Should I be worried about this? What can I use to get rid of them?Read

Your Pictures: A feast for the senses

MORE than 200,000 people enjoyed everything from clog tapping to break dancing at Birmingham’s ArtsFest.Read

Creature Features: Pupils go wild for rainforests

PUPILS from Holyhead Primary School, Wednesbury, learned about why rainforests are so important and what animals live there during an hour-long session in the Go Wild!Theatre.Read

Creature Features: A world of experience for students

STUDENTS on a placement course at Dudley had a culture shock when they exchanged their flat Netherlands homeland for a hillside site.Read

Your Pets: Are there any natural cures to kill off fleas?

Q I DON’T want my poodle Waffle to get fleas, but I don’t like giving her chemicals or medication. What natural remedies could I give her instead or as well as conventional medication? Do natural remedies work?Read

Your Celebrations: Annual folk festival is real crowd pleaser

BALMY temperatures and big name acts led to this year’s Moseley Folk Festival being hailed the most successful ever.Read

Your News: Teen is best cadet finalist

A MIDLAND teenager has emerged from thousands of hopefuls to make the final 20 in an annual competition to find the country’s best army cadet.Read

Your News: Construction staff hand over cheque

WORKERS involved in the construction of the £193 million Library of Birmingham raised thousands for the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s annual charity appeal.Read

Your Celebrations: Islamic fest brings cultures together

BIRMINGHAM people turned out in their thousands to enjoy the city’s huge annual Eid Mela in Cannon Hill Park.Read