Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Two people have been arrested in connection with a major probe into alleged financial irregularities at a Birmingham secondary school. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Six years of delays, legal wrangles, bidding wars and political manoeuvring are set to end later this month when Birmingham City Council finally awards a £2.2 billion contract to repair and maintain its roads over the next 25 years. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A bank worker narrowly escaped serious injury when a taxi ploughed into the front of a city centre bank yesterday. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Campaigners battling for a public inquiry into shamed Stafford Hospital are to stage a protest outside the ministerial surgery of health secretary Andy Burnham. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Ambitious plans to launch the Birmingham Independent School of Performing Arts have been put on hold due to the recession. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A young model told a friend days before she was murdered that her boyfriend "put knives to my throat" and threatened to kill her. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Reporter Paul Bradley recently joined Midlands troops in Afghanistan. Here he describes how the soldiers will be coming to terms with the deaths of 15 comrades in little more than a week. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A 22-year-old man has died after being stabbed in the neck in Birmingham, police said. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A Birmingham hospital radio show broadened its listener base when a technical glitch broadcast its show to planes jetting in and out of Manchester Airport. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Hospital staff were temporarily evacuated after a chemical spillage at City Hospital yesterday. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A three-year-old boy has died after collapsing while he bounced on a trampoline at his family home in Birmingham. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
A businessman has appeared in court charged with stealing more than £4.5 million from Birmingham University. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Birmingham has been urged to bid for the title of Britain’s first City of Culture - after losing out to Liverpool in a contest for a similar accolade. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
The people of Wootton Bassett have stood in silence 79 times, but yesterday thousands of mourners spontaneously clapped home eight British soldiers who fell on Britain’s bloodiest day in Afghanistan. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Olympic cycling champion Paul Manning went back to university yesterday to be crowned with a special award. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
Renowned conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife, who died together in an assisted suicide clinic, were devoted to each other, the musician’s manager said. Read
Jul 15 2009 | West Midlands News
The West Midlands is set to miss its target on wind energy because local planning authorities are holding up the process, according to a leading body. Read