Updated 3:42pm 2 June 2012

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The Queen's Coronation

Diamond Jubilee: The party's getting started

The West Midlands will to hang up the bunting, dust off the Union flags and push the boat out to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.Read

Steve Bray

SP Services wins London 2012 deal

The world’s best athletes arrive in London in less than 60 days and a Midland company has won a six-figure deal to supply medical equipment to ensure they leave in good shape.Read

Birmingham Post

San Carlo restaurants set to open in London and Bangkok

You hang around for one restaurant opening... and then three come along at the same time.Read

Birmingham Post

Long-awaited trial of iSoft directors begins

The long-awaited trial of four men accused of fraud at a Birmingham company founded by one of the city’s best known businessmen has started in London.Read

Michael Eric Phillips

Tribute paid to Michael Eric Phillips

Michael Eric Phillips , who was a partner and then a director of Phillips Cutler Phillips Troy and PCPT respectively, having joined his brother John in the early 1960’s starting in the Wolverhampton office, has died aged 74.Read

Joe Tildesley

Warning that West Midlands police commissioner elections could flop

Elections for new police and crime commissioners to oversee policing in the West Midlands risk becoming an embarrassing flop – according to the candidates themselves.Read

Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome fans lose their front row seats

When is a front row seat not a front row seat?Read

Ben Browning

Ben Browning makes big-screen debut

Well-known Birmingham financier Ben Browning has swapped his pinstripe suit for a dog-collar to play a vicar in a unique Midland production.Read

Birmingham Mail Mint M

6,000 jobs plan at ex-LDV site in Washwood Heath

THE former home of van maker LDV and train maker Alston could be creating jobs for up to 6,000 as early as next year, city bosses have pledged.Read

Birmingham Post food critic Richard McComb given coveted national award

Birmingham Post food critic Richard McComb has scooped one of the country’s top food writing awards for championing British food.Read

World's strongest beer-maker Brewdog to open Birmingham bar

The company behind the strongest beer in the world is setting up a bar in a prominent city centre spot.Read

Paradise Circus plans drawn up by Friends of the Central Library

The Paradise Circus plan which retains Birmingham Central Library

Campaigners hoping to save Birmingham’s Central Library building from the bulldozers have drawn up plans for its inclusion in the regeneration of Paradise Circus.Read

Buzzard

Government drops plan to capture buzzards

OUTRAGE from wildlife experts has led to plans to capture buzzards being dropped.Read

West Midlands criminals forced to pay back £6.3m

Criminals in the West Midlands region were forced to pay back a record £6.3 million from proceeds of crime in the last year.Read

Sainsbury's Selly Oak

Sainsbury's Selly Oak supermarket plan drops hi-tech industrial park

The long-awaited plans for a new major Sainsbury’s store and canalside development in Selly Oak go before the council’s planning committee for the first time next week when concerns over a missing high-technology industrial park will be raised.Read

Hobley Street, in Willenhall, is cordoned off by police.

Police commissioner hopefuls say they will drop private partnership plan

Potential candidates vying for the chance to become the first Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands Police could scrap expensive plans for business partnerships with the private sector, they have warned.Read

West Midlands Police defend private partnership plan after Commons Committee attack

West Midlands Police has defended plans to sign a “business partnership” with the private sector after the scheme was attacked by an influential Commons committee.Read

Atherstone-on-Stour warehouse blaze

Chief Fire Officer condemns prosecution of firefighters in Warwickshire manslaughter trial

Warwickshire's Chief Fire Officer has condemned the decision to press criminal charges against three firefighters who were cleared of the manslaughter of four colleagues in a warehouse blaze in 2007. Read

London 2012 Olympics

Olympic torch: Thousands watch Olympic torch pass through Much Wenlock

THE Midland town credited as the birthplace of the modern Olympics got hit with Games fever today as it welcomed the official flame.Read

Blaze at a warehouse in Atherstone-on-Stour in 2007

Firefighters cleared of manslaughter after Warwickshire warehouse blaze

Two firefighters have been cleared of the manslaughter of four of their colleagues who died in a warehouse blaze in 2007.Read