Recently added articles from Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England):
BIG MACS & MOVIES FOR SEX OFFENDERS; EXCLUSIVE (Because it's their human rights).(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY JEANETTE OLDHAM PAEDOPHILES and rapists are being allowed out of a secure Midland hospital for secret trips to the cinema and McDonalds. The dangerous sex offenders are also visiting shopping centres packed with unsuspecting families while on days out from ...
BYE BYE BUTCH; TRIBUTES FLOOD IN TO HOLLYWOOD LEGEND PAUL NEWMAN.(Features)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY BEN GOLDBY HOLLYWOOD legend Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 after losing his battle with lung cancer. The super-cool Oscar winner found fame as the anti-hero in classic alms including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cool Hand Luke. ...
MI6 joins facebook; EXCLUSIVE Hunt for 007s goes to social networking site.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY JONNY GREATREX SECRET Service spymasters are turning to Facebook in a very public bid to recruit their latest James Bonds. MI6 has been advertising on the social network website since September in the hope of appealing to the next generation of agents. ...
Death faker is attacked in jail.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... BACK from the dead canoeist conman John Darwin has been beaten up in prison. He was punched several times in the face by a fellow prisoner at Everthorpe jail in East Yorkshire. The attack came after convicts realised Darwin used to be a prison officer. ...
Midland Muslim sues Tesco.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... A MIDLAND Muslim is suing Tesco for religious discrimination because he was asked to handle crates of alcohol in a warehouse. Mohammed Ahmed, 32, was employed at the supermarket giant's Lich eld depot in September last year for a job that included transporting various goods on ...
ET flight of fancy.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... A FRENCHMAN inspired by the film ET is hoping to become the first person to cross the English Channel in a pedal-powered airship. Stephane Rousson, 39, from Nice, is keeping his fingers crossed for perfect weather conditions today to help carry him from Hythe in Kent to Wissant ...
Prostitute knife rape.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... A 26 YEAR-old prostitute was raped at knifepoint after she got into a man's car, police said last night. The woman was approached by the man in St Marys Street, Preston, Lancashire just after 1.10am yesterday. After she got into the back ...
crazy world.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... FORT PIERCE, USA: Officials are asking why a firefighter took a man's severed foot home from the scene of a traffic accident. It is the force's policy to take severed body parts with the patient to ...
One dead in smash.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... A MAN died and three people were injured in a horrific head-on crash between two cars which happened on a rural Midland road yesterday morning. The smash took place in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, at around 6.50am as a green Rover ploughed into a silver Peugeot ...
B&B BATTLEAXE BACK IN BOTHER; EXCLUSIVE BOSS WHO STOLE FROM GUESTS UNDER INVESTIGATION AGAIN.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY ANUJI VARMA A CROOKED Midland B&B boss who stole from holidaymakers is being investigated again after allegations of deception. Pensioner Heulwen Smith, who was given a three-month suspended sentence last year for falsifying star ratings and stealing cash ...
PLEA TO IDENTIFY 'WRONG BODY'.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... POLICE are making a fresh appeal for information about the body of a man who was wrongly cremated following an identity mix up. The body was found in shrubbery close to Manchester Royal Infi rmary and mistakenly thought to be that of missing person John Delaney. A ...
Fatboy to beach boy.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... DJ Fatboy Slim was set to perform in front of around 20,000 revellers last night in his home city at a seafront event dubbed Big Beach Boutique 4. The DJ, real name Norman Cook, was expecting to play to a sell-out crowd in ...
50 hurt in coach crash.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... AN astonishing FIFTY people were injured in a Midland motorway crash involving a coach and a lorry. The collision happened on the northbound carriageway of the M42 in Worcestershire on Friday night. ...
crazy world.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... PORTLAND, USA: A man being treated for agonising abdominal pain received some surprising news in paperwork issued by an Oregon hospital. The 71 year-old ...
Glass hits baby boy.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... A BABY was taken to hospital after a window at a new department store shattered over his pushchair. A panel of glass from the front door of Harvey Nichols in Bristol fell over the face of the boy, thought to be around ...
'Banksy' art fakes.(News)
Sep 28, 2008 ... MILLIONS of pounds worth of works of art attributed to Banksy are fakes, the graffiti artist has revealed. A body set up by the "guerilla artist" has identified 226 works of art that have ...
ROCK-Y GROUND; Pacemaker row rumbles on after Coolmore case.(Sport)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY BOB DOWNING NOTHING, it seems, brings out the worst in Horse Racing circles than the role of a pacemaker. Some have been nothing more than a joke, striking off many lengths ahead of a field which has ignored them. On the other hand, there is the ...
City slickers can close in on top four; BETRESCUE.COM.(Sport)
Sep 28, 2008 ... Byline: BY CHRIS HUTCHEON MANCHESTER City's spending plans under their megabucks new owners have been the subject of much speculation lately. However, it's their current crop of players, including new superstar Robinho, that are making the headlines at present. ...
Cricket: HARMISON TITLE CLINCHER; DIVISION ONE.(Sport)
Sep 28, 2008 ... STEVE Harmison last night hailed Durham's "unbelievable achievement" after cricket's newest county claimed their maiden LV County Championship only 16 years into their first-class history. Harmison took the last two wickets in as many balls - after Callum Thorp had bagged the ...
Cricket: Snell foils Essex bid; GLOUCS v ESSEX.(Sport)
Sep 28, 2008 ... GLOUCESTERSHIRE drew at Bristol after bad weather and defiant batting prevented Essex from completing a sixth win in Division Two. Steve Snell anchored the home side to score an unbeaten 70 in three hours and 40 minutes while David Brown and Richard Dawson, who scored 48 and 40 ...