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Man trapped after car collides with lamppost in Edgbaston

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:07:00 GMT

A man was trapped for over an hour after the car he was in collided with a lamppost in Birmingham.

MP Ian Austin warns over plans to cut West Midlands police station opening hours

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:59:00 GMT

OPPONENTS of plans to cut the opening hours of police stations across the West Midlands need to make their views heard before a formal consultation ends this week, an MP has warned.

Success for campaign to make a treatment for epilepsy available to people in the West Midlands

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT

EPILEPSY sufferers in the West Midlands have been thrown a lifeline after it was announced a previously unavailable nerve stimulation treatment will be given to people across the region.

4,000 more join dole queues in West Midlands

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:00:00 GMT

AROUND 4,000 more West Midland workers joined the dole queue in the three months to October as UK unemployment spiralled to a 17-year high.

Huge broadband boost for West Midlands

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:30:00 GMT

MORE than 77,000 extra homes and businesses in Wolverhampton, the Black Country and Birmingham are to benefit from super-fast broadband with a major expansion of BT’s roll-out.

West Midlands pensioners win free rail and tram travel pledge

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:45:00 GMT

BIRMINGHAM’S public transport chief has poured cold water on suggestions that pensioners might have to pay for rail and tram passes which are currently free.

93 per cent of West Midlands drivers admit they would speed if they were in a hurry, survey reveals

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A SHOCKING 93 per cent of West Midlands motorists would be willing to speed if they were running late, a new poll has revealed.

West Midlands Fire Service rules out talk of closing stations or engines

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:00:00 GMT

WEST Midlands Fire Service is weathering the public spending cuts so far with bosses saying they have no plans to close stations or cut fire engines.

Aldridge detective in |£3,600 benefit fraud

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:00:00 GMT

A MIDLAND detective who turned to benefit fraud after hitting “rock bottom” when he lost £100,000 in the collapse of a Spanish property venture has avoided a prison sentence.

Grooming suspect placed in controversial Aldrdge bail hostel near child

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:00:00 GMT

A CONVICTED paedophile suspected of grooming his own young daughter from behind prison walls was allowed to live less than two miles away from the child in a controversial West Midlands bail hostel.