Extra specials
Local police aim to recruit more volunteer officers.
HOWARD: I Reveal Secret Restrictions on Syria Air Strike
American law makers have backed US Prez Barack OBomber to fire missiles at Syria- but with strict limitations, reports Sir Howard Elston (DOA), our international editor at large
Appeal for fresh information on anniversary of girl’s disappearance.
Natalie Putt vanished ten years ago this week.
Adopted Brummie opens new library
A large crowd greeting education activist Malala Yousafzai this morning as she officially opened the Library of Birmingham.
Stopped in our tracks
Andy Munro reports on Blues’ game with Ipswich Town.
Ironbridge welcomes the world
Heritage site set for festival.
Back to school – with police help
Safer travel as police watch over new starters.
Tea and cinematography
Miss Macaroon brings secret cinema to Birmingham
Screengrab: Cool Hand Paul
RICHARD LUTZ on the films on tv this week that you just got to see Here’s one for all you movie geeks: a classic prison chain gang movie starring Jack Lemmon as a Christ-like inmate called Luke Jackson and Telly Savalas (formerly Kojak) as the jail bully who learns to love and respect …
Walsall councillors seek assurances over school policy
Former pupil speaks of dangers of homophobia in schools.
Devotedly hopelessly
News of a new production at Birmingham Rep.
Flypasts announced for Battle of Britain weekend
RAF Museum announces star attractions.
Two jailed for million pound fraud
CPS employees set up taxi scam to defraud the public purse.
Celebrities sign up for run
Trott and Purnell go Head 2 Head for BUPA Great Birmingham Run.
HOWARD: Exclusive Interview with Barack Obama About Syria
HOWARD ELSTON, our international editor, interviews President Barack Obama about Britain’s decision not to bomb
Nic back?
Terry Wills on news from the Hawthorns.
Museum makes appeal to black RAF personnel
The RAF museum at Cosford is asking for help with a forthcoming project.
Cheating Financiers To Pay Up- Again
RICHARD LUTZ explains why today-29th Aug- may be a good day for you and could mean money in your pocket.
Cadbury World catches dance fever
Olympic dancers are headed for Bournville.
Something unique this way comes
Dave Woodhall’s view of the new Library of Birmingham.
Anonymity and the web
Jean Brant, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Wolverhampton, on a worrying trend.
Coventry art scheme unveiled
Artists invited to apply for residency programme. Coventry School of Art and Design is offering practising artists free access to its studio spaces and facilities as part of a national residency programme. Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) is a nationwide scheme run in conjunction with art colleges across the country in which the participating…
Wolverhampton women in wartime
Lecturer to give talk on Home Guard battalion.
Unions support for HS2
Scrapping would be “the grandest folly of all.”
Encore for Annie
Terry Wills reports on the latest production of the musical Annie.
Keeping up with the Jones’
The ‘real’ Brummie family have been unveiled.
This week at the Robin
New stuff, older stuff and the godfather of tributes.
HOWARD EXCLUSIVE: £100m Westminster Signing On The Cards
As the all important transfer window shuts, our diplomatic editor SIR HOWARD ELSTON (DOA), gives us the inside dope on a political spending spree that’ll see new faces on both sides of the Commons this coming autumn
City’s first documentary film society launches in Birmingham
Another addition to the region’s burgeoning cultural scene.
Friendless, luckless
Dave Woodhall on the week at Villa Park.