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Drivers back ban for using mobiles

Nearly a third of drivers want people using mobiles at the wheel to get six-month bans

4:23am Sunday 5th July 2009

Nearly one in three UK motorists want to see six-month driving bans for those using hand-held mobiles while at the wheel, a poll has revealed.

Relatives lament flats fire victims

Questions are being asked about escape routes after six people died in fire at flats.

4:23am Sunday 5th July 2009

Inquiries into how a blaze which ripped through a tower block killing six people, including a three-week-old baby girl, was able to spread so quickly are continuing.

Tour operator K&S Travel goes bust

3:05pm Sunday 14th September 2008

A second British tour operator has gone bust days after the collapse of XL Leisure sent the travel industry into turmoil, the aviation regulator confirmed.

Couple jailed for canoe death fraud

Anne Darwin has been convicted of helping husband John fake his own death

3:46pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

John and Anne Darwin were each jailed for more than six years for carrying out a £250,000 con by faking his death in a canoeing accident.

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Your Say Your Bromsgrove

Very long, noisy, polluting buses continue to use the narrow Warwick Avenue/Old Station Road/Clive Road route day and night.  − Roger Fownes, Wellington Road, Bromsgrove

Accident fears »

I am a mother of three who has lived in the Bromsgrove district most of my life and in the past I have worked as a countryside volunteer. − J Crabtree via email

It’s time to save the greenbelt »




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