Recently added articles from Birmingham Mail:
24 post offices to close in Brum
Jun 21, 2008; Jonathan Walker ... THE BIRMINGHAM Mail can today reveal the 24 city post offices setfor the axe as part of a savage closure programme. The hit list, leaked exclusively to the Mail, hammers home thefull extent of the cuts which will wreak havoc in communities acrossBirmingham. As many as 60 ...
Axe will affect elderly worst ; PROTEST: Anger as the most needy are set to lose their 'lifeline'
Jun 21, 2008; Catherine Lillington ... PEOPLE in communities set to be hit by the latest raft of postoffice closures today reacted with fury to the news they would losetheir "lifeline". They said the news would hit the elderly hardest and wereunconvinced by excuses that the offices were underused. Sylvia Clare ...
Never mind, Becks - we'll fly flag for England! ; FOOTBALL: Euro 2008 is a flop, but at least the Over 45s are doing us proud...
Jun 21, 2008; Poppy Brady ... ENGLAND may have missed out on Euro 2008 but a team fromBirmingham are still in with a fighting chance - even though theplayers are all over 45. For a squad from Aston University are playing for their countryin the World Over-45s Football Championships this weekend. The ...
Road closed to allow construction work
Jun 21, 2008 ... A CITY centre road is closed this weekend to allow majorconstruction work to take place. Snow Hill Queensway, which connects St. Chad's Queensway andColmore Circus, closed at 1am today and reopens at 3am on Monday. Any motorists coming from Constitution Hill can still access ...
Entwistle 'in a trance' over deaths
Jun 21, 2008 ... BRITON Neil Entwistle told police he had not even cried"properly" three days after his American wife and baby daughter weremurdered, a US court heard. Entwistle said he was "trance-like" when he found the bodies ofhis 27-year-old wife Rachel and nine-month-old daughter Lillian ...
Girder mishap man recovers
Jun 21, 2008 ... A MAN is recovering in hospital today after a metal girderpierced his stomach in a freak accident at Edgbaston. The man, aged in his 20s and from Walsall, was operating a diggerto clear rubble from the Mac Theatre in Cannon Hill Park when hecollided with a ...
The World: Martha appeal
Jun 21, 2008 ... US media personality Martha Stewart was today hoping the HomeOffice would relent over its reported refusal to give her a visa toenter the UK. A spokesman for ...
The World: New BB inmate
Jun 21, 2008 ... A GYM-obsessed property developer has entered the Big Brotherhouse. Football-mad father-of-one Stuart, 25, from ...
The World: Crash woman dies
Jun 21, 2008 ... A WOMAN involved in a road crash with a police van has died. The woman, who has not been named, was a passenger in a ...
The World: Jelly wrestling assault
Jun 21, 2008 ... A CAMBRIDGE University student was cautioned for assault aftertempers flared at a "jelly wrestling" tournament, police said. Officers were called after bikini-clad Nadia Witkowski, 23, ...
The World: Birthday Prince
Jun 21, 2008 ... PRINCE William was today celebrating his 26th birthday. The royal, on a two month attachment ...
The World: Alligator stuck in pipe
Jun 21, 2008 ... ANIMAL control officers were called to revive an alligator stuckin a drain pipe in Cookeville, Tennessee. Putnam County OfficerChris Brown said children ...
The World: Suitcase probe
Jun 21, 2008 ... DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a woman whose body wasfound in a suitcase "on fire" in a lay-by were today questioning a24-year-old man after he walked into a south London police ...
Naomi: I did attack police ; COURTS: Community service for aeroplane fracas model
Jun 21, 2008 ... SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell has been sentenced to 200 hours'community service after pleading guilty to assaulting two policeofficers. Campbell, 38, admitted kicking and spitting at the officers onboard a plane at Heathrow Airport on 3 April. Magistrates in Uxbridge also ...
Monsoon rain ravages India
Jun 21, 2008 ... RESCUERS are struggling to provide aid today to nearly threemillion people affected by monsoon floods that have ravaged easternIndia, killing at least 54 people. More than five days of near-constant rains in the region havetriggered landslides, blocked major highways and ...
Plagiarist TV doctor suspended
Jun 21, 2008 ... CELEBRITY psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud today spoke of his"sadness" at being suspended from practising for three months by theGeneral Medical Council for passing off other scholars' work as hisown. The doctor (pictured), famed for his appearances on thetelevision chat show This ...
Quiz Of The Day
Jun 21, 2008 ... 1. Despite a credit crunch. three-fifths of Britons admit theyare overspending on what? 2. The University of Manchester is celebrating the 60thanniversary of the birth of the world's first what? 3. Which GMTV presenter is to receive a doctorate of laws fromthe University of ...
HMS Daring, new darling of our city ; ROYAL NAVY: Newest and fastest ship in fleet celebrates links with Brum
Jun 21, 2008; Paul Bradley ... RULE Britannia ... HMS Daring rules the waves! The Royal Navy's newest and most powerful air defence vessel isset to become Birmingham's most formidable worldwide icon. That was the message from HMS Daring's Capt Paul Bennett when hevisited the city for the first time since ...
Criticism for Longbridge refurb plan
Jun 21, 2008; Paul Bradley ... THE two major landowners involved in the redevelopment ofLongbridge today labelled the long term vision for the site'unsound'. In a report to go before a Government inspector, St Modwen andAdvantage West Midlands have proposed a raft of changes to planswhich they say showed a ...
Teen arrest over attack ; CRIME: OAP battered unconscious with brick
Jun 21, 2008; Edward Chadwick ... A TEENAGER has been arrested over the vicious attack on apensioner who was battered unconscious with a brick afterconfronting a gang of stone-throwing louts outside his home. Disabled Ray Mills, aged 73, took on the 10-strong mob of thugsin Stechford Road, Hodge Hill last Friday ...