Birmingham, England News Archives

When an acclaimed filmmaker decided to make her next feature in Birmingham, it was because she wanted to put the city on the cinematic map.

Speaking in front of more than 400 representatives from the construction and project management sector at the Mace Group Autumn reception held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, cllr Paul Tilsley outlined some of the key opportunities and challenges facing the city.

Gloucestershire Police are appealing for drivers who may have witnessed a police pursuit in which stolen items were thrown from a vehicle, to contact them.

Struggling US Airways said on Wednesday it will cut some 1,000 jobs next year, shift nearly all of its flying to its three hubs and Washington, and suspend several international routes.

TONY Rowe says his sympathies are with Birmingham & Solihull's fans as the club is expected to fold this week.

Sarah Turner's Twitter-led trip to the second city took her from Russian art at the Ikon Gallery to a top Brum boozer in Moseley and a belting Balti in Sparkbrook View Birmingham TwiTrip in a larger map See Sarah's tour of Birmingham plotted on the map above My last experience of Birmingham was so memorable several peripheral details have eluded me ...

A GANG of terrorists who plotted to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier are back on the streets after being released early from prison.

THREE men who made as much as A 400,000 from a string of brothels, including one in Worcester, have been jailed for a combined total of 10 years.

GRATEFUL members of the Lutterworth branch of the Royal British Legion have thanked generous townspeople for donating hundreds of items for wounded soldiers returning home from duty abroad.

Birmingham's MPs have united in opposition to wholesale changes planned for the city's two daily newspapers.

Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Housing Tuesday 20th October 2009 - 2:19pm Lovell secures 4.23m Birmingham housing contract Affordable housing developer and regeneration specialist Lovell is set to build a 4.23 million housing development on behalf of Midland Heart in Winson Green, Birmingham.

According to research out today, in some parts of our city, including Hodge Hill, Sparkbrook and Small Heath, more than a third of people have no qualifications at all.

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Drugs charge: Birmingham barrister Victoria Edmonds-Shakell will stand trial next April and will continue to work until then A woman barrister has been charged in connection with the supply of crack cocaine and heroin to her husband.

Police who unlawfully access confidential records from force computers for their own purposes were warned by the country's top judge they faced "deterrent" sentences after an ex-constable from Sutton Coldfield was imprisoned.

FREE boat trips and canoe taster sessions will form part of the Droitwich Canals Trusta s annual open day.

DETECTIVES today appealed to the people of Coventry to help them solve an execution-style murder which dates back to 1993.

Detectives investigating a taxi driver's murder have launched an advertising campaign on buses to encourage his killer to come forward.

A top tennis coach has been jailed for a string of child sex crimes - but is likely to be released within a few weeks.

Plenty of teenagers fall out with their parents or have a brush with the law. For most of them it's only a fleeting setback on the road to adulthood, but not for Nigel Pearce.

Hundreds turned out today to pay their last respects to a Birmingham Soldier, killed in Northern Ireland.

World renowned singer, Jamelia is to re-launch CMAT Recording Studios on 16.10.2009. Birmingham's Best Kept Secret is finally going to be revealed.... BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, October 08, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- West Midlands' superstar Jamelia has agreed to join CMAT Recording Studios to re-launch a new phase in the life of the internationally ...

A JURY have been shown the final moments of a postmaster's son who was brutally gunned down while protecting his parents' shop from masked robbers.

It's early days , it always is , in a Groundhog-day type of way , in the Personality Disorders community that is often promised some kind of better resources but tends to get excluded even when its promised to be "Socially Included" Does anyone recall the Dept of Health paper : "Personality Disorder No Longer A Diagnosis of Exclusion" ...... Ahhhh ...

Birmingham crown court was told how 29-year-old Craig Hodson-Walker was shot in the chest at the post office and village store in Fairfield, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on the morning of 9 January.

World mountain running champion Elisa Desco has tested positive for doping. The Italian athletics federation said Thursday that Desco failed a doping test on Sept.

A DISTRACTION burglar who preyed on elderly victims in Leek and the Moorlands has been jailed for five years.

An inquiry into the city's social services was commissioned after inspectors found weaknesses in care for at-risk children last December.

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A CAR stolen in the Stourbridge area and later used in a post office robbery has been recovered by police.

Bishop Bernard Longley, an auxiliary of the Westminster archdiocese, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to become Archbishop of Birmingham.