Workers in Birmingham will throw off their dark suits and don the most garish, brightly-coloured outfits they own on Friday to mark Wear Bright for Sight Day.Read
Businesses will have to prove they have advertised jobs in Britain for two weeks, giving local people a chance to apply, before they are allowed to recruit immigrants, under new rules announced by the Government. Read
A drug-addicted Black Country doctor used a patient's name to make out prescriptions for himself - but was caught because a pharmacist could not read his writing.Read
Consumers are already having to cope with increased mortgage costs, rising food prices and petrol smashing through the £5-a-gallon mark. Curry houses across the Midlands have an added problem - the increased cost of the industry's favourite type of rice.Read
A catalogue of errors led to a "vulnerable" pensioner dying after he was scalded in a bath of boiling water at a respite centre for the mentally ill in Birmingham, a court has heard.Read
