Two senior recruiters at crisis-riven healthcare employment agency Healthcare Locums have been suspended pending investigations into serious misconduct allegations that will fuel criticism of the use of profit-driven private contractors by the NHS... more
I am sure most Londoners were shocked by the murder of 16-year-old Agnes Sina-Inakoju last year: this week her murderers were convicted at the Old Bailey... more
Sharapova paid tribute to Li Na after losing the final of AEGON Classic in Birmingham but felt she could have done more to push the Chinese world No10.... more
Birmingham owner David Gold has laughed off claims by the Croatian Football Federation that English players have deliberately injured their players... more
Plans for a high-speed railway from London to Birmingham via Heathrow are being drawn up on the basis that the Tories will block a third runway if they win the general election... more
Extra funding to help provide new primary school places in parts of England struggling with shortages is expected to be announced by the Government this week... more
Virgin Trains users have voted with their feet as the main inter-city service from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow became the first rail company to admit to falling passenger revenues... more
Workers at a factory which builds Jaguar cars started two weeks of non-production in another sign of the impact the economic downturn is having on British industry... more
Late last night, in the middle of Birmingham, I was physically assaulted, called a f***ing c*** and a prick, and left stranded after the last train back to London had gone... more
Jim Moray has been hailed as a wunderkind of what some have dubbed Nu-Folk. But the winner of a clutch of awards also likes to cultivate a bit of rock-star swagger, evident at this gig.... more
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