Black Country residents fighting plans to widen a motorway yards from their homes are to be offered screens and trees to block noise and pollution.
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A clergyman who refused to leave his vicarage in West Bromwich after being barred from office for having an affair has been given 28 days to leave the property.
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Birmingham Yardley MP John Hemming has joined celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to bolster a campaign aimed at amending the current smoking ban to help the pub and club industry.
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Eleven people arrested across the Midlands and North West as part of a probe into a £2.5 million fraud involving bogus pension schemes have been bailed.
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A child living at the home of a Birmingham couple accused of starving a seven-year-old girl to death was so hungry he tried to eat toy plastic sandwiches.
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One of the most beautiful hotels in the Midlands is being sold at a cut price because its owner does not have an heir willing to run the business.
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Local government officials from across the world are making a point of visiting Birmingham to discover how once-failing public services have been transformed, city council leader Mike Whitby has claimed.
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Old criminal records of minor offences are a valuable tool in the fight against crime and must not be deleted from the national computer database, two West Midlands police forces have told the Court of Appeal.
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Consumers want to see more local produce in supermarkets and an extension of popular farmers’ markets, research by Heart of England Fine Foods (HEFF) has found.
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The Secretary-General of the United Nations urged countries not to cut back on health care investment during the global economic downturn as he made a keynote speech to 20,000 Rotarians in Birmingham yesterday.
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