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May 7 2008
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....
May 7 2008
Detectives have launched a murder inquiry following the discovery of a woman's body at a house in Handsworth, Birmingham....
May 7 2008
The Football Association has confirmed the long-awaited National Football Centre in the Midlands will be completed by 2010....
May 7 2008
An inquest is set to begin into the death of Solihull man John Cullen who was swept to his death by a flash flood in a cave in Thailand. ...
May 7 2008
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. ...
May 7 2008
A Birmingham house destroyed by a suspected gas explosion was empty at the time of the blast, emergency services believe. ...
May 7 2008
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....
May 7 2008
Diamonds worth thousands of pounds were stolen from a Birmingham dealership after thieves switched the stones for a box of sweets....
May 7 2008
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....
May 7 2008
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....
May 7 2008
The family of a baby left with horrific injuries in a crash caused by a Birmingham millionaire's son have received £800,000 in compensation....
